Well with a name like that, who can argue?
On the other hand, there is E. Raymond Capt and various Anglo-American-Israel believers who see the Great Seal as the Heraldry of our Israelite heritage.
Gooooooooooood Morning VIETNAM!
Back on track (as much as there can be with a topic like this), another “satanic” connection is the prevalence of 13 in the seal: 13 levels on the pyramid, 13 stripes on the shield, 13 stars, 13 leaves and 13 fruits on the olive branch, 13 arrows, etc.
“They” will try to cover up the devilish connection by trying to point out that it simply refers to the thirteen original colonies. Obviously a smokescreen to blind the public!
For the “jewish conspiracy” buffs, there’s also the fact that the 13 stars are laid out in a hexagram (plus a central 13th star): aka, a Star of David.
{by the way: Rubidium = devil? Why? My google-fu keeps coming back to chem pages that include the kuprenickel (devil’s copper) derivation of Nickel’s name.
There is more crack-pot theory about this here
666=DCLXVI 1776=MDCCLXXVI MDCCLXXVI Minus DCLXVI = MCX (1110) 1110 Minus 666= 444 (CDXLIV) (scrambled placement of DCLXVI/666)
Well, since I missed this the first time around, may I just mention that Mbossa is now on my list of SDMB Heroes? And brains, etc etc so forth.
I never heard about this before. This is something new to me.
It’s a joke. Rb is atomic number 37, and 37 is the largest prime factor both of 666 and of 1776 (both of which are multiples of 111, or 37*3).
I was going to say something about how the Patriots deliberately rebelled with thirteen colonies instead of twelve or fourteen out of sheer perversity, and I might have then cast aspersions on the very existence of Delaware, but I suppose that would be confusing.
Delawhere? It is a mythical place, made up like Atlantis or Thule.
There’s nothing to explain. Satan doesn’t exist (and never has).
Seriously, while I believe that forces of evil exist in this world, I do not believe this conspiracy theory. First of all just because it’s a coincidence does not make it evil. “Live” is “Evil” spelled backward. This means that all that living things are evil. Seems rather childish if you ask me.
Satan Must have designed the Great Seal of the USA.
It all started as a plot to make Nicholas Cage look Smart…
Oh come now. You won’t convince that Old Scratch doesn’t have at least something to do with the individual state seals. It is not a being of great benevolence (and taste) who decided that pre-Geocities era clip art was the pinnacle of taste.