[QQ00]

curious what mark of the beast has to do with a federal ID? I always thought the opposition majority because it's not something in the constitution to be a centralized by the federal government and it was left for the state to handle.

[majormajor]

Just google "is real ID the mark of the beast" or "is social security number the mark of the beast" like I did above.

The premillenial dispensationalism theory is widespread in southern evangelical churches in the US, with big sales of associated media.

The association is "verse says a mark will be required and a number of the beast is mentioned" -> "these are numbers assigned by the government required for commerce" -> "this is the mark." The language of the apocalopytic verses is flowery enough that people pick and choose which parts they take literally, so for a while it wasn't seen as necessarily an injection (or you could also believe that eventually you'd have to get a SSN tattoo, say).

[ls612]

I think RFID chips were what was actually being opposed by these religious fundamentalists but idk why they saw that as a satanic mark.