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Speedy deletion nomination of The mark of the beast 666


Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, introducing inappropriate pages, such as The mark of the beast 666, is not in accordance with our policies. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Under section G3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, the page has been nominated for deletion.

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 * I have deleted the article; if for no other reason, then because this topic is already covered in an existing article Number of the Beast. (I thought about redirecting the article, but I don't see the title as a plausible search term.) In any case: Wikipedia is not a soapbox (or, in your case, a pulpit). It doesn't serve to "spread the truth", or to state religious claims as a fact; instead, it serves to describe, in neutral and factual manner, what people believe on the various religious topics. (As for the "Beast" of the Book of Revelation, a common interpretation is that it is a coded reference to Emperor Nero. The number 666 then corresponds to gematria, a method of assigning numeric values to Hebrew letters [some manuscripts of the Book of Revelation give the number as 616; the difference is explained by alternate transcriptions of the phrase "Nero Caesar" into Hebrew - either from Greek, "Neron", or from Latin, "Nero"]; the Mark of the Beast can be interpreted as the Roman coinage which carried images of Roman gods and emperors, and when Christians and Jews used them, it was seen as tantamount to idolatry.) - Mike Rosoft (talk) 19:31, 7 November 2016 (UTC)