(By Daniel Tencer))Concerns over privacy have aligned with apocalyptic Biblical prophecy in a proposed Virginia law that limits the use of microchip implants on humans because of a lawmaker’s concern that the chips will prove to be the Antichrist’s “mark of the beast.”
On Wednesday, Virginia’s House of Delegatespassed a bill that forbids companies from forcing their employees to be implanted with tracking devices, a move likely to be applauded by civil libertarians.
But Virginia state Delegate Mark Cole’s reasons for proposing the law have as much to do with the Book of Revelation as they do with concerns over privacy in the digital age.
Cole says he is concerned that the implants will turn out to be the “mark of the beast” worn by Satan’s minions.
“My understanding — I’m not a theologian — but there’s a prophecy in the Bible that says you’ll have to receive a mark, or you can neither buy nor sell things in end times,” Cole said, as quoted at theWashington Post. “Some people think these computer chips might be that mark.”
Cole is not alone in making that assertion. Evangelical Outreach, a Web site run by pastor Dan Corner, states that “[w]ith modern technology, it is very possible that this mark may be directly linked with a computer chip.”
“Radio frequency identification (RFID) implants are currently the prime candidate for this beastly technology,” says the Riding the Beast blog.
David Neff, editor of Christianity Today, says that “this is part of a larger attempt to constantly read current history in the light of the symbolic language of the Book of Revelation,” according to thePost.
Opponents of Cole’s measure argue that it’s “a solution in search of a problem,” the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star reports.
Virginia Democratic delegate Bob Brink said: “As I went door to door, there were a number of issues that never came up. I didn’t hear anything about the danger of an asteroid striking the earth or about the menace of forced implantation of microchips in humans.”
But Cole says it was his constituents who brought the issue to his attention. He says people are concerned that chip implants will replace employee ID badges in offices.
If passed by the full legislature, Virginia will become the fourth state in the US to have such a law. California, Missouri and Georgia have all passed a similar measure, or are working to pass one.
Momentum behind microchip implants has been building for years. Perhaps most significantly, Florida-based VeriChip introduced an implant in 2001 that can store medical data. The FDAapproved the technology for use in humans in 2004.
Source http://rawstory.com/2010/02/virginia-passes-law-banning-chip-implants-mark-beast/
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lster921
March 6, 2010
I am not a big “bible” fanatic, but, if you want to catalog and track every human on earth, this is how you do it.
By the way, these things cause cancer in animals, (they have been used in dogs and cats for tracking them if they are lost.), and they are NOT safe for humans.
I say keep it away from me, thank you very much.
danny temple
March 15, 2011
I’ve searched the internet on information about implants. The first implant is said to have been in ohio in 1974 but there is nothing about who or how many or what happened to them. I’ve also seen where electrodes were being implanted in babies heads as early as 1946 without parental consent/knowledge. Also there was an implant called the “rambo chip” used on soldiers during the vietnam war. That was before 1975. So how does Ohio fit in? Did it ever really stop after 1946? Or after Vietnam? The NSA has poison kits to run pharmapsychology drugs into homes. Drugs used to aid in mind control. This is 2011. How far has it come without anyone knowing? Why doesn’t anyone believe the technology is there except the people that are harassed and the people who design and use it? Is it possible that most people have implants from birth or the unlucky visit to a doctor who sold out? Implants can control all of your brain functions and can induce and control dreams. Is that how some people who are born deaf dream in spoken english? A survey in Great Britain showed that 7-10 percent of the people hear voices. A psychiatrist suggested to one woman she should talk to the voices. He said they were all part of her subconscious. I believe we all have an inner voice but don’t think it talks to us, or that we even hear actual spoken words. I don’t think she’s crazy. I think she has an implant. How many people in this country have an actual “inner voice”? Go read something to yourself. Do you hear the words in your head? Maybe you have an implant. And if you don’t hear voices or an inner voice that doesn’t mean they’re not watching you.