Wired News has an interesting article entitled RFID: Sign of the (End) Times?. It discusses Katherine Albrecht’s new book The Spychips Threat: Why Christians Should Resist RFID and Electronic Surveillance.
Albrecht and co-author Liz McIntyre have written an introduction that says that RFID chips, particularly the VeriChip subcutaneous implant designed for humans, bear an uncanny resemblance to "the mark" described in the Bible’s Book of Revelation….
But fear not, says Boston University professor Richard Landes, who specializes in the history of apocalyptic thought. New technologies often trigger alarm among millenarians…."Even the introduction of the Gutenberg press caused waves of apocalyptic thinking," said Landes.
HT: Evil Lonnie