Here we have a True Believer making a fervent case that Monster energy drinks are made in the service of the devil.

I don’t know much about this video except that I’m pretty sure it’s authentic; that is, the woman really believes that she’s saying. It’s simply too ludicrous to be a joke.  PuffHo has a piece on it, but doesn’t identify the woman and merely repeats what you can see below.

PuffHo does add a bit of information, though:

Many of her complaints about the drink have circulated online before, with some users on the Snopes message board reporting a similar message circulating on Facebook in 2009. However, none of the others have spread this quickly.

The Facebook clip posted by Andrew Blevins this weekend has already been viewed more than 8 million times while the YouTube version posted on Sunday racked up more 1.5 million views in less than 24 hours.

Monster has not responded to numerous people sharing the video on its Facebook page. However, when these religious claims have surfaced in the past, others,including members of the Christian community, have pointed out that the so-called “number of the beast” is not three sixes, but 666 — as in six hundred and sixty-six — which would not be represented in Hebrew by a six repeated three times.

Also difficult to explain would be the fact that Monster Beverage Corp., which owns the Monster Energy drink, also owns Peace Tea.

I remember when the Proctor and Gamble logo, devised in 1850, was, 130 years later, interpreted by Christian wackos as a symbol of Satan, and that the company was donating its profits to the Church of Satan. Here’s that logo and the Satanist interpretation back then:

From Snopes.com:

Those who accepted the rumor as revealed truth pointed to P&G’s “man in the moon” logo as proof of the company’s ties to evil. They saw in the curlicues of the moon man’s hair and beard a pair of devil’ horns and an array of 6s, and they believed that by playing “connect the dots” with the thirteen stars in the logo, three 6s could be made to appear. (According to Revelation 13:18, 666 is the “mark of the Beast”, with the “beast” understood to be the devil.)

Remember, according to a Harris Poll taken last year, 58% of Americans believed in Hell and the Devil. Of course, we’re assured by some philosophers that this “belief” isn’t really the same thing as our beliefs that, say, New York City exists. Rather, these religious ‘beliefs’ are really akin to “fictional imaginings.”  I don’t think this woman (or even Pope Francis) agrees!

All this reminds me of H. L. Mencken’s riposte when he was once asked, “If you find so much that is unworthy of reverence in the United States, then why do you live here?” His answer: “Why do men go to zoos?”

And here we have a fine specimen to observe and to entertain us. ~