Tuesday, July 26, 2011

The return of Uncanny!

Welcome back to another episode of Uncanny! Observe the following pieces of information. The first is from the Book of Revelations from the King James Bible. It's more recognisable as the opening to the song Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden ("Who?", you ask, as the universe slowly conspires to erase you from existence for that utterance). The second is a definition from Wikipedia, which is as good as authoritative nowadays. I've emboldened and underlined the keywords in each for all you lazy readers:

Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. 
(Revelations 12:12)
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. 
(Revelations 13:18)

During the canonization process of the Roman Catholic Church, the Promoter of the Faith, popularly known as the Devil's advocate, was a canon lawyer appointed by Church authorities to argue against the canonization of the candidate. It was their job to take a skeptical view of the candidate's character, to look for holes in the evidence, to argue that any miracles attributed to the candidate were fraudulent, etc. The Devil's advocate opposed God's advocate, whose task is to make the argument in favor of canonization.

These are two pieces of information, with the common factor being the Devil, right? Well, now I know where the Beast lives - as expected, in New Delhi. (Scroll down, I'm not telling you next time, mouth-breather)
































Lawcifer?
No points to me for poor photography, but you can't blame someone for not taking the time to set up a tripod at the gates of Christian Hell.

2 comments:

  1. yes i know this house and it is also worth noticing the line of big cars that followswhen these gates do open but in our days blogging and facebook were not trendy but we did share a few good laughs about it :D

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  2. Well, it's been re-introduced to the new generation, I guess?

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