A high school cross country runner Codie Thacker refused to take part in a regional championship and forfeited her chances at winning because the number that had been randomly assigned to her was the dreaded 666, known to Christian cognoscenti as the Number of the Beast, where the Beast is Satan, aka Beelzebub, aka Lucifer, aka a whole lot of other names.
“I didn’t want to risk my relationship with God and try to take that number,” Thacker told LEX18. “I told them to mark out my name because it makes me sick just thinking that my name is associated with that number.”
I don’t understand these people. What kind of relationship is she in with her god that he wouldn’t understand that she did not choose the number? Isn’t her god omniscient?
I wonder what would happen if they assigned a number for their god. Would everyone want that number? And what number would be suitable? As far as I know, the Book of Revelation from where this number is supposedly drawn (13:18) is silent on a number for god. One possibility to evoke the opposite of 666 is 999. Or maybe -666 or 1/666 (=0.0015).
But there are a lot of other things that one can infer from this number.