If it happens in my lifetime I'm going to be really fascinated by how the ruling class tries to pitch anything with super obvious parallels to the mark of the beast, despite all the usual rampant NPC behavior I just can't imagine a scenario where most people don't just absolutely freak out and refuse it, I can certainly imagine there being people who accept it and even people who thinks it's the best thing since sliced bread, but seriously at least presently there would be full blown widespread riots unlike anything the world has seen before, most people would lose their shit
They're going to need something better than that. People in general underestimate how much of the population would completely freak out over anything that directly matches the mark of beast description and criteria. But this is true of present day. They'd need to considerably alter circumstances from what they are now. Even most agnostics (the "unsure" category regarding God) would freak out at the idea, if anything it would give more merit to the bible, not less, making it even more alarming in practice than in theory, a major prophecy fulfilled. Promises of techy powers are nowhere near enough.
If it happens in my lifetime I'm going to be really fascinated by how the ruling class tries to pitch anything with super obvious parallels to the mark of the beast, despite all the usual rampant NPC behavior I just can't imagine a scenario where most people don't just absolutely freak out and refuse it, I can certainly imagine there being people who accept it and even people who thinks it's the best thing since sliced bread, but seriously at least presently there would be full blown widespread riots unlike anything the world has seen before, most people would lose their shit
They're going to need something better than that. People in general underestimate how much of the population would completely freak out over anything that directly matches the mark of beast description and criteria. But this is true of present day. They'd need to considerably alter circumstances from what they are now. Even most agnostics (the "unsure" category regarding God) would freak out at the idea, if anything it would give more merit to the bible, not less, making it even more alarming in practice than in theory, a major prophecy fulfilled. Promises of techy powers are nowhere near enough.