OnlineAthens: Movies: Number 666 shows up on ‘Passion’ tickets 03/01/04
ROME – The number 666, which Christians recognize as the ”mark of the beast,” is appearing on tickets for ”The Passion of the Christ” at a Georgia movie theater, drawing complaints from some moviegoers.
The machine that prints tickets assigned the number 666 as a prefix on all the tickets for the Mel Gibson film, said Gary Smith, owner of the Movies at Berry Square in northwest Georgia. The 666 begins a series of numbers that is listed below the name of the movie, and the date, time and price of the showing.
”It’s from our computer and it’s absolutely a coincidence,” Smith said. ”It has nothing to do with the film company or any vendor. It’s completely in our computer.”
