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It's just a goddamn number!
November 6, 2013 at 11:15 am
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool...18529.html
Quote:In one of the strangest cases of purported religious beliefs intersecting with athletic performance, a Kentucky junior cross country runner voluntarily walked away from a chance to qualify for the state meet to avoid running with the bib number "666", which she said conflicted with her Christian beliefs.
Oh well, her loss.
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RE: It's just a goddamn number!
November 6, 2013 at 12:27 pm
Couldn't they have told her it was "999" and asked all of the other runners to wear their numbers upside-down?
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RE: It's just a goddamn number!
November 6, 2013 at 12:44 pm
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RE: It's just a goddamn number!
November 6, 2013 at 2:17 pm
I wonder if she would have been ok wearing 69?
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RE: It's just a goddamn number!
November 6, 2013 at 3:38 pm
That's what pisses me off... we'll never advance as a species if we're afraid of a damn number because it was written in a book a couple thousand years ago about someone who died a long time ago, and probably is a mistranslation in the first place. And even then, the number just refers to that particular "beast," it doesn't actually say that the beast is Satan. There are several different beasts mentioned in Revelation, but somehow Christians think that each one of them are the devil.
Remember when "Passion of the Christ" came out, and a bunch of Christians were freaking out because their ticket numbers had the string 666 in them?
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RE: It's just a goddamn number!
November 6, 2013 at 3:40 pm
(November 6, 2013 at 12:27 pm)Tonus Wrote: Couldn't they have told her it was "999" and asked all of the other runners to wear their numbers upside-down?
Yeah, but what's the poor sod who originally got '999' supposed to do?
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RE: It's just a goddamn number!
November 6, 2013 at 5:14 pm
As soon as I saw the thread title I knew what this was going to be about. I almost posted this myself.
I can only imagine that if there is a god up there, she's sitting there thinking, "What the fuck? Why would I care about a number?"
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