Louisiana Town Ditches 666 Area Code Over Religious Concerns

What's the big deal? A number is what you make of it. I have a religious friend of mine who said that on the pope's crown is the phrase
VICARIVS FILII DEI in Latin. If you take the numeric value of the letters that have them (Roman numerals VICLD, etc. guess what they add up to? 666. Now I don't think anyone is going to call the Pope the antiChrist!

LikeItIs. You are telling it like it is. Look at Britney for example, her little sister is pregnant - from a guy she met at Church, and her mother was getting ready to publish a book with a Christian publisher of what it was like to be a Christian mother of famous kids. Hmmmmm. If you want to get technical, the Bible stories existed 6000-7000 years ago under the Sumerians, who were pre-Christian, pre-Jew, pre-almost any religion as far as I know. Adam and Eve? Big flood? One brother killing another? Creation of the world? It was all there in Sumeria. Jews and Christians just copied it and kept what they want. The Bible was compiled by Catholic Priests in Rome and Nice in the 4th century, so who knows what all they "edited."

So then harpersformalsga you're saying that 666 is the number of the AntiChrist? So then if that was on the pope's crown, he's the AntiChrist? In my neighborhood I think that would tick off a lot of people. It's interesting to see that even the pope has 666 on his crown, but it's only a number. It has no power over you if you can think, and are above superstition. If you put all of your faith in a book and not in God, then you are not going anywhere! A book is a book, God is above any book, or any number.

Fartingbaboon! You are a saggy butthole! *Tries to keep a straight face.* Bwahahahahahahaha! Bick My Lalls. I love the devil. Yay devil!

in today's society nobody has to worry about that #. all it is is a reference to a roman emperor its uses some hebrew numbering system that gives each letter in the alphabet a number. the emperor at the time being ceazor nero

Wow. That's freaking stupid. Sorry, but to go through all that trouble just for 3 little numbers is ridiculous. :/

What superticious clap trap.

kinda silly if you ask me, and ironicly there are likely a fair number of people who loud love to have 666 for their area code

The 666 prefix has been use for years here in SW Washington State with no issues.

I would love to have the area code 666 I mean come on is it really associated with the devil I DONT THINK SO just something that someone said one day and it stuck

666 was not a valid area code in the 1960s. All area codes had 0 or 1 as the 2nd digit until the 90s. Still pretty funny. :-)

garlic3 is a crack addick!Washington state used and use's 206 and never used 666 as an area code. Your a freaking moron, if you dont know what your talking about grab a phone book and look up the area codes. Morons like you should not speak!

THIS is what happens when you have people raised on superstition, ignorant of scientific fact, refusing to deal with logic, and actually thinking a NUMBER has any significance in this world. A number has absolutely no impact on one's life- how you live it is what counts. For many years I lived in TWO different apartments that had the number 13 on the door (No, I didn't choose them on purpose; the rents, room sizes and super locations were the deciding factors), and just to make a point, I also owned 2 wonderful male black cats. Guess what! The sky didn't fall on me, neither did the ceiling! And I had the GREATEST parties! There were no shortages for the guest lists, either. I guess living in L.A., and not LA (Louisiana) makes ALL the difference!

THE CHINESE FIND THE NUMBER 666 AS A SIGN OF GOOD LUCK. THEY ALL ADD UP TO 18. AN EVEN NUMBER

Maybe they could trade with Crawford, Texas

Dexheimman21, A prefix is NOT the same as an area code. The prefix is the 3 numbers that come AFTER the area code. Maybe you should think before you speak and not insult someonewith a comment that could be turned right back on you.

i dont blame them for not wanting that area code, i sure would not want it. some people just dont know what it stands for, but soon everyone will know what it stands for

When I was in college, my phone number ended in 666. Nothing bad ever happened to me. Besides, it was easy for friends to remember.

I'll bet most of the people who are calling this "silly" were furious when the Koran was flushed at Guantanamo. It seems that people are bending over backwards to defend the rights of any religion that isn't Christian, but the symbols of Christianity are considered "superstitious nonsense". You can't have it both ways.

Linda Blunt - any time you add even numbers to even numbers the result is - even!