CB asks: “There is a post on Facebook about the drink called Monster. It claims to have 666 written on the can. According to Snopes.com there is nothing to this claim. Any thoughts?”
The “Monster Energy drinks are the work of Satan” claims have been circulating for at least eight years now. However, in 2014, an author and Christian activist named Christine Weick made a video about the claims which was very convincing. It not only managed to garner seven million hits on YouTube but also revived the rumor.
For those who are unfamiliar with it, Weick and others claim that the claw-like “M” symbol on the can actually spells the numeral 666 in Hebrew. She shows how the Hebrew numeral for the number six, known as the letter “vav” looks just like the “M” on the can when three 6’s are placed in a row.
The Monster logo also features a cross in the letter “o” which becomes inverted when the can is tipped to drink. An inverted cross is a well-known occult symbol.
Weick also points out that the slogan on the can reads, “Unleash the beast”.
Regardless of what you think the Monster Energy Drink 666 logo stands for, the beast in possession of the claws that made their mark on the can has yet to capture its last victim. And, sure – the claw marks might stand for 666, but it’s far more likely that they stand for M, the energy drink’s initial. Monster Energy is an energy drink that was introduced by Hansen Natural Company (now Monster Beverage Corporation) in April of 2002. Monster Energy has a 35% share of the energy drink market, the second highest share after Red Bull. There are 34 different drinks under the Monster brand in North America, including its core Monster Energy line, Java Monster, Extra Strength, Import, Rehab.
However, Weick’s theory has been debunked for various reasons.
First, the company denies any connection with the satanic in its product imaging or design. In an interview with the Christian Post, a representative of the company’s consumer relations department named Janet (who strangely declined to give her last name) said Weick’s theories were not true. “The M claw represents [the letter] M scratched on the can and doesn’t represent anything else,” she said.
In an attempt to beautify its corporate logo, Procter and Gamble inserted an inverted 666 and two horns on its logo. It also included 13 stars. This caused many to boycott Colgate and other P&G products in the 80s! Rumors died down but were revived in 1995 after top distributors for household product competitor Amway. Thus, the logo spells out '666' — the mark of the horned, hooved one that gnaws on the traitor Judas Iscariot in the 9th Circle of hell. The woman then points out that the letter 'o' in Monster has a vertical line through it, making it into a cross. When someone imbibes the energy drink, they turn the can upside down, inverting the cross. Here we go again. Somebody is claiming that Monster Energy drink has the number of the Beast of Revelation 13 as its symbol since it looks like the sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It’s right there on the can: “Certain blogs and websites have noticed that the logo is very similar to the Hebrew letter ‘Vav.’ In the Hebrew Alphabet.
She added that the “unleash the beast” slogan was “just a saying” and that “anybody could represent it the way that they want to.”
Janet did not specifically address the cross in the letter “o” but did say that anything found on the Monster energy drink could be “open to interpretation” which no one could argue with.
While I didn’t find this interview to be particularly persuasive, other evidence against Weick’s theories were more convincing.
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For instance, the main premise of her claim is that the “M” in monster is the Hebrew number “666” which she says is written as three “vavs” (a vav is the number 6 in Hebrew). In reality, the number 666 in Hebrew is not written as vav vav vav but as “six hundred and sixty six” which would be spelled סרתו (samech resh tav vav).
Another issue that I couldn’t seem to get around is the fact that Weick has somewhat of a reputation for controversy. She was the woman who managed to get into an invitation-only Islamic prayer meeting which was held inside Washington’s National Cathedral (a controversy in itself at the time) only to disrupt the service and shout, “We have built, and allowed you here in mosques across this country. Why can’t you worship in your mosque, and leave our churches alone?”
While I applaud her for expressing outrage over the event that scandalized Christians across the country, this wasn’t exactly the way to handle it.
I also discovered that she has been living out of her car while touring book fairs and other events touting her book entitled Explain This! A Verse by Verse Explanation of the Book of Revelation.
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Having said all this, I must say that the devil can influence anyone and at any time if they let him so he may very well have been influencing people who did the design work for Monster energy drinks. This could easily explain why they chose some of these images for their product. But to imply anything more would be pure speculation.
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