I remember the first time I heard someone use that phrase Mark of the Beast. It was by a conservative who commented online in the pre-9/11 internet, and it was in relation to a new article discussing the possibility of using RFID chips in humans for very specific reasons. Pets have been having RFID implants to help find them when they get lost.
The guy insisted that these chips are the mark of the beast and he would rather die than get them.
I don’t know if he is still around, but he if he is, he is probably someone who thinks Bill Gates is the devil for wanting to chip people but think Elon Musk is awesome for the same.
Lol back in the mid-90s, there were people at my evangelical church that believed credit cards were the mark of the beast. Credit cards.
I’m pretty sure they all still had them though.
I mean, they’re not wrong. Enabling lower-income people to impulsively take on high-interest debt is one of the main factors perpetuating wage slavery.
Mine was convinced it was barcodes. Standard barcodes.
Completely ridiculous. Everyone knows it’s only QR codes that are the mark of the beast!
The Mark of Mr. Beast
Pets have been having RFID implants to help find them when they get lost.
Just a small correction, microchips in pets are there to identify them and identify who their owner is. They don’t have any geolocation capabilities, its equivalent to hiding an SD card under their skin.
Yes thank you. Memory is rusty. But I am sure you can understand since it was literally 24 years ago…
Oh wow the dude kept adding to it. I remember reading this a couple of years ago, but it is kind of crazy that it just keeps going.
Thanks for adding this
I’m generally opposed to quotes from that awful fuckin’ book, but context here works.
It really is just a bad book… Like religious beliefs and politics aside, it’s just not good reading.
The only people who think it is haven’t read any other book in their adult lives.
You’d think an all-knowing being ought to be able to write a compelling book. Instead we get one filled with the worst crimes, yet it somehow manages to be soul-crushingly boring. You ever try to read it? Most people only manage a couple pages a day, and that’s considered devout commitment to it.
Non-Christian and non-Bible person here, but I think it’s probably best to be accurate about citing these things:
Revelation 13:16-17 King James Version
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Source: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+13%3A16-17&version=KJV which also lets you switch around between other versions of the passage.
but I think it’s probably best to be accurate about citing these things
The book neither deserves the respect, nor do practitioners bother to get it right either, so nah
If someone is trying to use a particular text to justify their shitty behavior, the ability to point to that very text can be useful when criticizing their actions.
If nothing else, either you or they will probably learn something from the interaction.
Ha ha, oh now things are getting a little feisty and controversial. I love a good meme that starts a fire. Nice……very nice.
You won’t be able to buy or sell without the mark of the beast. Think crypto chip.
They should sell this hat. Id buy it. 🤣
I would buy it too, if even just to display
What is the mark of the beast? 666?
No, that’s the number of the beast. BIG difference.
Lol jk they’re both stupid bullshit
The mark of the beast is orange spray tan.
Trumps more stupid then evil, mark of the fat and stupid maybe.
It’s a mark that shows you’re a follower of the beast.
Oh thanks, I’ll keep my eyes open for that that I dont know what it looks like.
There’s no more info than that. Sorry for the tautology, but that’s all the fucking info that exists. Revelation is an acid trip transcribed a few thousand times. What isn’t hamfisted symbolism is just “this thing is this thing” with no further explanation.
Tautology is a new word to me, love it.
not yet. soon, buy not quite yet.
