Joe Newby is an IT professional who also writes as a conservative columnist for Examiner.com covering politics, crime, elections and social issues, and offers hard-hitting commentary at his blog, the Conservative Firing Line.
Walter Slonopas, a 52-year-old maintenance worker from Clarksville, Tenn., quit his job with Contech Casting LLC last week when he received a W-2 form bearing the number "666," the Biblical mark of the beast mentioned in Revelation, the Tennessean reported Thursday.
"Slonopas said that after getting the W-2, he could either go to work or go to hell," the Tennessean reported.
No, because the Bible says that as a born-again Christian, I am a new creation. "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!," 2 Corinthians 5:17.
It's the time of the year when Christians around the world celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. It's also the time when lawyers from groups like the Freedom from Religion Foundation go on the prowl, looking to squash anything that might be construed as a public display of Christianity.
After Tuesday's elections, WND editor and CEO Joseph Farah was quite clear — the results are God's judgment on America.
Farah wrote that Obama's re-election represents, at least to him, "God’s judgment on a people who have turned away from Him and His ways and from everything for which our founders sacrificed their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor."