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Funny that people are downvoting it, it’s completely accurate. A lot of people believe this. I would have been skeptical if I hadn’t been told that directly by

Funny that people are downvoting it, it’s completely accurate. A lot of people believe this. I would have been skeptical if I hadn’t been told that directly by a true believer. A lot of right-leaning people still believe the DNC had a pedo operation in that pizza joint, and the Epstein stuff only convinces them even further.

thatguy0900 6y ago
One of the primary functions of the mark of the beast is that Noone without it will be able to buy or sell. Assuming you believe in the Bible, it's pretty easy to see how the vaccine will put people in the situation that they can only participate in the economy if they have it. It honestly troubles me how little some of the people here is willing to look at the other side to even try to see where they're coming from.
- thatguy0900 6y ago
  For the record I consider myself an atheist and don't believe in the vaccine being the mark, but sure continue to downvote the reasons people believe what they do and act like it's all just random nonsense with no reason behind it, that's worked out great politically so far.
  - krapp 6y ago
    Yes, obviously it's not random nonsense with no reason behind it. Every conspiracy theory is rationalized by the people who believe it, with a framework of logic that makes sense to them, and Christians have been trying to decipher the Book of Revelations ever since it was canonized, breeding such conspiracy theories for a thousand years or more. I know some who adamantly believe the locusts in Revelations refer to Apache attack helicopters, for instance. Every war might be Armageddon, every plague might be a sign of the end times, every Pope and world leader might be the Antichrist. The paredolia, tea-leaf reading and phantom dot-connecting is as endless as it is futile. The Mark of the Beast has been interpreted to refer to social security numbers, license plate numbers, credit card numbers, dollar bill serial numbers, bar codes, RFID codes, and any number of numbers throughout history. This is just the latest paranoid fixation of the Christian right attempting to justify their constant fear of the future. Tomorrow, when it turns out Bill Gates wasn't the antichrist all along, they'll find another number to obsess over. It's still nonsense, even when the context is understood, and it doesn't deserve to be taken seriously, or treated with respect.
    - yters 6y ago
      traditionally these events are considered archetypes as well as historical realities, just as jesus is supposedly prefigured in various ways in the old testament so these could be said to be prefigurations of the end time pattern, as in satan keeps trying various ways and keeps getting defeated, which would in their mind lend credence to constant concern about these things

thatguy0900 6y ago

One of the primary functions of the mark of the beast is that Noone without it will be able to buy or sell. Assuming you believe in the Bible, it's pretty easy to see how the vaccine will put people in the situation that they can only participate in the economy if they have it. It honestly troubles me how little some of the people here is willing to look at the other side to even try to see where they're coming from.

thatguy0900 6y ago
For the record I consider myself an atheist and don't believe in the vaccine being the mark, but sure continue to downvote the reasons people believe what they do and act like it's all just random nonsense with no reason behind it, that's worked out great politically so far.
- krapp 6y ago
  Yes, obviously it's not random nonsense with no reason behind it. Every conspiracy theory is rationalized by the people who believe it, with a framework of logic that makes sense to them, and Christians have been trying to decipher the Book of Revelations ever since it was canonized, breeding such conspiracy theories for a thousand years or more. I know some who adamantly believe the locusts in Revelations refer to Apache attack helicopters, for instance. Every war might be Armageddon, every plague might be a sign of the end times, every Pope and world leader might be the Antichrist. The paredolia, tea-leaf reading and phantom dot-connecting is as endless as it is futile. The Mark of the Beast has been interpreted to refer to social security numbers, license plate numbers, credit card numbers, dollar bill serial numbers, bar codes, RFID codes, and any number of numbers throughout history. This is just the latest paranoid fixation of the Christian right attempting to justify their constant fear of the future. Tomorrow, when it turns out Bill Gates wasn't the antichrist all along, they'll find another number to obsess over. It's still nonsense, even when the context is understood, and it doesn't deserve to be taken seriously, or treated with respect.
  - yters 6y ago
    traditionally these events are considered archetypes as well as historical realities, just as jesus is supposedly prefigured in various ways in the old testament so these could be said to be prefigurations of the end time pattern, as in satan keeps trying various ways and keeps getting defeated, which would in their mind lend credence to constant concern about these things