The BroadcastThe BroadcastAt 7:06 P.M. Eastern Standard Time every television, computer screen, and multimedia device showed it. If it was off, it turned on. If it had a screen, you could see it there. Movie theater projectors cast it in leu of the movie that was showing. Graphing calculators suddenly had the clarity of any television.
They were all showing the scene that comes on just before an Emergency Broadcast and a high pitched whistle was coming from all of them.
And the world froze.
Then the symbol of the viewer’s religion flashed on the screen. Be it an ankh, cross, star of david, pentagram, or another symbol.
And the world talked.
What was going on? What is Sadam doing now? I bet it’s those damned Americans and their technology. The Martians have arrived! Bow down and repent to Jesus, Christ has returned to save the world!
And the words heard around the world were spoken. They were said in the listeners own language and followed by all. And the words were: SILENCE FOOLS!!!
And the world was silent. In New York a pin was heard dropping in Tokyo.
And a face appeared on all the screens. It was a black haired, blue eyed boy of about twenty years of age. And the boy spoke. And his voice was like that of a god. And he said in the language of the listener:
Beware sinners! You’ve played your sacrilegious game long enough. Six hundred sixty six minutes after this broadcast every sinner will burn.
It took several seconds for the meaning of the message to sink in. Once it did, the riots started. People robbed, beat each other, vandalized, and murdered. Then, exactly six hundred sixty six minutes after the broadcast ended, every person in the world burned where they stood.
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