You’d be remiss to not check out Richard Eskow’s new post on his blog: Revelation/Channel 13: “Biometric ID,” The Mark of the Beast, and Immigration Reform, where he does a spectacular job explaining why many evangelical/fundamentalist Christians will fear the proposal in immigration reform requiring workers to carry biometric identification by comparing it to the the “Mark of the Beast” referenced in Revelation, and why the administration may want to tread carefully on this:
If Arizona’s draconian new law has put immigration back in the public consciousness, the proposal for a national “biometric ID” is about to trigger nightmares in this country’s Christian id. The Democrats who drafted a new immigration law aren’t just “tone deaf,” as blogger John Cole says (although they’re certainly that.) The bill’s content and language are going to terrify and outrage lots of evangelical Christians, and could even lead to violence.
Before they try to pass this law, there are a few videos they really ought to watch.
This bill couldn’t be more inflammatory in both content and language to those who take their Gospel straight … and literal. A quick listen to what’s currently being preached on YouTube and AM radio today will confirm that. And generations of kids from evangelicals families recall their terror at the dictatorship and disasters shown in the End Times films known collectively as the “Rapture” series. In these films, a world dictatorship demands that everyone identify themselves and be entered into a database while being marked with an “image of the beast.”
He goes on the highlight some choice clips from Christian films about the prophesied end times, which all holds in common the belief that a new kind of order that will require allegiance to a new one-word government and will come with it a “mark” required to take part in any economic activity. Go read the whole thing, seriously, because I too guarantee that this will be a thing.
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