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And they will willingly embrace it. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yes thank you. Memory is rusty. But I am sure you can understand since it was literally 24 years ago...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Mine was convinced it was barcodes. Standard barcodes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Completely ridiculous. Everyone knows that barcodes belong to the back of the head, not forehead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Completely ridiculous. Everyone knows it's only QR codes that are the mark of the beast!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

The Mark of Mr. Beast

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

A thing assigned to you that's in your hand or your head that's needed to engage in commerce? That's...umm...I can see where they could get that idea, especially with the rise of online sales.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You won't be able to buy or sell without the mark of the beast. Think crypto chip.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Forehead or wrist. Yeah so neural link barcode or starve basically

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So Musk is the Famine horseman, got it… Obligatory "fuck this timeline"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Someone commented somewhere that I can't find now... Trump as Plague (covid, firing bird flu, ebola teams), Putin as War, and Netanyahu as Death. With Doge also trying to end USAid, Snap, contracts and programs our farmers rely on, and Social Security... that tracks well for Famine.

I don't believe in it, but the idea haunts me that people are trying to force it to happen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Regardless of the literature I think there’ll be another point soon where it will be undeniably obvious to people that lines are drawn in the sand and at that point it’s too late.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

What is the mark of the beast? 666?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The mark of the beast is orange spray tan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Trumps more stupid then evil, mark of the fat and stupid maybe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

No, that's the number of the beast. BIG difference.

Lol jk they're both stupid bullshit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's a mark that shows you're a follower of the beast.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Oh thanks, I'll keep my eyes open for that that I dont know what it looks like.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Tautology is a new word to me, love it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

You’ll know it when you see it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They should sell this hat. Id buy it. 🤣

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I would buy it too, if even just to display

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm generally opposed to quotes from that awful fuckin' book, but context here works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

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.

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