The number of the beast

I'm only including this link for the paragraph quoting Peter Gilmore, who is apparently High Priest of the Church of Satan in New York. To sum up (as Inigo Montoya would say): a newly discovered fragment of the Book of Revelation, in Ancient Greek and dating from the 3rd century (CE) has recently been uncovered, and it looks like we might have got it wrong about 666 and all that. Professor David Parker (probably no relation to Peter) reckons it was probably 616, making it possibly a reference to Caligula rather than Caesar.

Anyway. The best bit is what the Satanist had to say:

"By using 666 we're using something that the Christians fear. Mind you, if they do switch to 616 being the number of the beast then we'll start using that"

You've got to love that pragmatism.