Urban Dictionary has a bunch of debunks, very thorough.
I love the fact that for it to be satanic the consumer needs to know hebrew, at least the symbol for 6. And also not understand how you count in hebrew because the 6,6,6 on the can doesn’t actually mean six hundred and sixty six.
While I think debunking crackpots is kinda fun, isn’t that something that journalists should do by researching the story? But I guess this is just viral because it’s so dumb, and not that lots of people believe it.
For what its worth, you can read an interesting breakdown of the design choices that lead to the Monster energy drink brand identity, and a bit of history of the non-satanic origin.
However, if you re-arrange the letters in the design agencies name, you get DEGIL, which is almost DEVIL …with a couple of letters left over.
How about this: the Book of Revelation wasn’t written in Hebrew. It was written in Greek. The Greek number system worked the same way - six, six, six does not equal six hundred sixty six. (You can thank the Arabs for the place-value system.) So, for example, the Greek six isn’t waw, it’s the sixth Greek letter, zeta.
The interesting part is that - if I recall this right - Claudius Tiberius Nero, in Greek letters, adds up to 666. It’s not prophecy at all; it’s coded anti-Roman propaganda.
Also, for the record, the inverted cross was never a Satanic symbol until Roman Polanski directed Rosemary’s Baby.
This is NOT how you write the Hebrew for 666. They have a different symbol for 60, and yet another symbol for 600.
This is also NOT related to Christian fundamentalism, but to weird conspiracy theory people. With this thinking, they can see the Illuminati or whatever in anything that has a straight line. They tried the same thing with the NBC peacock once.
And, anyway, there are some textual variants that say the mark of the beast is 617 or something like that. We don’t know for sure what this number means.
She could have turned more people away from the product if she had some simple facts about the health risks of ingesting massive doses of glucose and caffeine: but no, she had to go the wingnut route and drum up business from the backward-baseball-cap demographic.
Next, she’ll go into excruciating detail on how gay porn harms the troops.
Quite the opposite, in fact- Until that point, it was known as St Peter’s cross, as the apostle had requested to be crucified upside down so as not to be elevated to the level of Jesus. The high point of Renaissance architecture, St Peter’s Basilica, is practically covered in inverted crosses.
Also, fun fact: Ronald, Wilson, and Reagan each have 6 letters. Just sayin’.
Havin that dream where you made the white people riot, weren’t you? How many times has I told you you better not even DREAM of tellin white people the truth? You understand me? Shoot. Makin’ white people riot…
On that note, the inverted cross is also the cross of St. Peter, as he didn’t feel like he should die like Jesus, as he wasn’t worthy [edited to add] which @MikeTheBard beat me to! But now we have the wikipedia link:
