There are plenty of people who use religion to decry this sort of thing. From the first page of results on a google search for "federal id mark of the beast":

There are plenty of people who use religion to decry this sort of thing. From the first page of results on a google search for "federal id mark of the beast": https://www.christianpost.com/news/the-national-biometric-id-card-the-mark-of-the-beast.html https://www.christianpost.com/news/the-national-biometric-id... https://www.fisherphillips.com/news-insights/don-t-give-your-employees-the-mark-of-the-beast.html https://www.fisherphillips.com/news-insights/don-t-give-your... http://archive.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2007/03/11/biblical_prophecy_finds_way_to_legislators_in_battle_over_id_plan/ http://archive.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2007/03/... I'm a Christian and I find most of those arguing that it's the mark of the beast (or the road there) to be disingenuous at it's root (there's an awful lot of anti-Christian stuff being flogged in the name of Christianity), but to claim that this isn't being done in the name of religion is to miss what's happening out there. Turn your car radio to the far left of the dial and listen to some Christian talk radio some time—there's a lot of craziness being put out into the world in the name of religion.