From the American Newspaper (Thurs., Sept. 14, 1989) we learn that in 
Wolcott, Connecticut, "a sign advertising a church mission was found 
defaced Wednesday with the number 666--the Biblical `number of the 
beast'--spray-painted across it. The plywood sign, which the St. Maria 
Goretti Church posted on a telephone pole to promote a parish mission 
at the church next week, was apparently vandalized Tuesday night or 
Wednesday morning. `It's just one of those things,' said the Rev. 
Harold Heinrich, the church's pastor. `You can't stop people like 
that, unfortunately.'"

The thing you want to notice about this article is the private comment 
by the private interpreting staff reporter, whose name is Michael 
Rappoport. At the end of the article, after telling his people that 
"in the book of Revelation, the number 666 represents the beast, who 
is an agent of the Antichrist," he says this: "Incidents of possible 
cult activity have been reported recently in Waterbury, Naugatuck, and 
Salisbury, but most officials and church members do not think the 
Wolcott vandalism is an indication that a cult has started operating 
in town." That is in Wolcott. Notice what the press gets away with. 
You are being told here that if anybody associated 666 with the Roman 
Catholic church, they have to be a member of a "cult."

That would include the Bogomiles of the ninth century, the Paulicians 
of the fifth century, the Lollards of the fourteenth century, and all 
of the major reformers of the sixteenth century. That is the present 
condition of your news media.