[Gamecock]

Sounds like a great idea to me!

[Gamecock]

FYI.

[Darksheare]

Oh sure, right hand.. how about forehead too?
*groan*
I may be a fountain of bad ideas, but this is a bad idea even beyond me.

[Darksheare]

Re-reading this, are they serious?

Have a good one, and Merry Christmas.

[topcat54]

Already posted here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1298637/posts

[Lexinom]

Though he's sure to face a firestorm from pre-millennials, the affable Caldwell seems unfazed by the technology's semblance to what eschatologists such as Hal Lindsay and Chuck Missler refer to as the mark of the beast in Revelation 13. "Look, I'm a classic dispensationalist myself, but I see it as a win-win situation. We either continue at the cutting edge of contemporary ministry, or we trigger the rapture and bada bing, we're outta here, brother!"

Does this not say it all? We trigger the rapture? Do you see how far man-centered theology, under the likes of Pelagius and Arminius, has come? It's hardly suprprising, moreover, he embraces an eschatology that goes along with such wrong theology.

[tallhappy]

Why do people keep posting thise fake "satirical" articles as if they are real?

[Jaysun]

This is a damned joke. I refuse to believe that a church would administer the mark of the beast to it's own congregation. BS.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Great satire....may it never come to pass in reality....

[A.J.Armitage]

Reading that, it just struck me how much it would suck to actually be named Nicolae Carpathia. Almost as bad as Harry Potter.

[I_like_good_things_too]

Ha ha, it's so cute people believe this. I mean, you can't even get 10% of the people in a parish to contribute via electronic online banking, but sure, over a thousand will implant a microchip intheir body...... and the elderly are still damn suspicious of ATM machines.

[Thinkin' Gal]

If the article isn't funny enough, the posts are even better ping.

[Harrymehome]

The chip in the hand now provides this church and the soon to be church/state union controlled by the Universal church with a tool to shut your bank account should you refuse to accept the true "Mark of the Beast". The Mark of the Beast is not as 99% of the people believe, a chip implant or the number 666. The Most Holy Word does not base salvation on having a micro-chip in the hand to be used in an economic issue such as buying and selling. The Mark of the Beast is a spiritual issue.

Also the article mentions a rapture, pre-trib I would guess. This is another Satanic doctrine that has no Biblical foundation at all.

May YHWH Bless you in your search for the TRUTH.

[BlueNgold]

For the sake of sanity can we relegate articles from THO to the Smoky Back Room ... please please please.

[jb6]

My God! What in the seven hells were these idjits thinking? So to pray to God you must be tithed? Not to mention tagged and tracked?

[Osage Orange]

What a crock of bluff........

[Gamecock]

BTTT

[Cronos]

Merry Christmas!