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Unique ID In India Causes 'Fear of the Beast'

Posted by timothy on from the seems-fair-enough dept.

bhagwad writes "India's attempts to tag everyone with an ID number has run into a roadblock is some Christian villages. Apparently the villagers fear they will be associated with the devil since according to the Bible, everyone having the 'mark of the beast' will go to hell. These people are not afraid of punishment. They relish this opportunity to prove their faith because the Bible also proclaims that they will be persecuted."

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  1. Two things... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    As a long-time minister I can tell you two things that are commonly misinterpreted by the nominal Christian crowd.

    1. Revelation is almost entirely using symbolic language (it says so in the first paragraph).

    2. Nearly everyone goes to hell. Hell is just the state of being dead, nothing more. Even Jesus is spoken of as being in 'hell' when he died.

    The 'mark of the beast; is not a literal, physical mark. Rather, it is some kind of behavior or trait associating one with the Devils machinations (i.e. participating (or tacitly approving of) in genocide)

  2. Re:POSIX operating systems are sinful by mangu · · Score: 4, Informative

    I had a sysadmin who refused to chmod files to 666 because it was the number of the beast

    Anyhow, you have to agree that he was right, for the wrong reason. Giving read/write permissions to everybody is the number of the stupid, not the number of the beast.

  3. Re:That's silly... by TheVelvetFlamebait · · Score: 5, Informative

    The parent isn't kidding. The official user number of Anonymous Coward is 666. Log in and click here for proof:

    http://yro.slashdot.org/zoo.pl?op=check&type=friend&uid=666

    --
    You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.