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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A hundred residents of a Russian village have refused to switch to new passports because they believe the documents' bar codes contain satanic symbols, state television reported Wednesday.

"We believe these new passports are sinful," Valentina Yepifanova, an elderly resident of the village Bogolyubovo, told Rossiya television as she clutched an old, tattered passport she said she wanted to keep.

"They have these bar codes and people say they contain three sixes. We are against that."

Some residents of Bogolyubovo, which means "God-loving" in Russian, have also stopped collecting their pensions at the local post office because the payment slips also have bar codes that might contain the mark of the devil, Rossiya TV reported.


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With Putin's government, it would be par for the course...

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When I was a kid, we Americans were definitely the good guys, while the Russians were the bad guys, BUT now, alot of that's changing. Russian youths protesting Madonna, the mayor of Moscow calling a homosexual march, demonic, the Russians standing by Christian Kosovo against US backed Moslem radicals, and now this. Good things keep coming out of Russia.

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"They have these bar codes and people say they contain three sixes. We are against that."

Dear Alexandr,

They do have the number 666 in them. Hmmm! Maybe a sign of the times. cry sick shocked sick cry

God Bless,

Zenovia

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Doesn't the earliest extant text of Revelations give the number of the beast as six-one-six?

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Doesn't the earliest extant text of Revelations give the number of the beast as six-one-six?

Dear Just a Pilgrim,

I really don't think it would matter, since seven is considered complete in Hebrew, and 666 would be incomplete since it is less than seven. Also 616 would be one less than seven, since the first 6 and then one would be seven, leaving the last 6 as one less than seven. Either way, it would be incomplete... which would be the sign of the devil eek shocked eek

God Bless,

Zenovia


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