XPost: alt.atheism, alt.bible   
   From: mark@beast.invalid   
      
   Bible bangers have the mark of the beast. Their false reading of the   
   bible is the mark. In the days of the Apostles, when Revelation was   
   penned, devout Jews wore phylacteries on their right hand or tied to a   
   band or covering on their forehead. These phylacteries were tiny   
   scripture scrolls with their favorite scripture verses. Those who are   
   wearing the scriptures like this are the ones with the mark of the   
   beast. The religious people in the synagogues and churches are wearing   
   the mark of the beast in their use of scriptures.   
      
   This mark signified the authority of the religious rulership. Jesus   
   came to abolish that authority. Those who still submit to that false   
   religious authority are the deceived souls who have taken the mark. The   
   religious authority mis-reads and mis-interprets the scripture, turning   
   the word of God into a lie. So those who have this false interpretation   
   in their minds are carrying the mark of the religious beast in their   
   foreheads. The teaching of false teachers is the 'authority' to which   
   the blind have bowed.   
      
   The mark of the beast is in Church authority. In their actual   
   interpretation of the bible they transform it from the mark of God into   
   the mark of the beast. Just as there are counterfeit christs   
   (anti-christs) there is a counterfeit mark of God, and a counterfeit   
   bible. That counterfeit bible is the interpretation provided by the   
   many false teachers in the world. Having that false rendering of the   
   word written on your right hand or your head is having the mark of the   
   beast. Therefore Christian have the mark of the beast already.   
      
   The anti-christ is not some person or power outside the church. The   
   anti-christ is inside the Church. The anti-christ is those who have,   
   'crept in unawares' or 'stealthily' pretending to preach the gospel.   
   But instead they preach the false gospels of Catholicism and   
   Protestantism, and Evangelicalism, and Christian Nationalism, and   
   Emergent Churchism, leading men away from the truth under the cover of   
   'bible study' or 'tradition'. Almost every religious troll posting in   
   these newsgroups has the mark of the beast. They all hate the truth,   
   and they use their interpretation of the bible to transform the word of   
   god into a lie.   
      
   These false preachers get their jollies by verbally abusing each other   
   and terrifying their mind-slaves with impending doom from their god.   
   They love watching people wriggle and writhe in fear and anguish over   
   not being holy enough to emulate their mighty preachers. These abusers   
   of themselves with mankind love to reduce god's word to a bludgeon to   
   beat others into submission. That is what beasters do. They use God's   
   word as a weapon to force others to submit to their delusions of   
   grandeur.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)