[mnehring]

OF COURSE the REAL ID is a precursor and a close one at that, to the Mark of The Beast.

So what does any of that have to do with a rejection of God to the point, as some claim, that it would be a negation of the salvation that Christ bought for us?

[Quix]

Because SCRIPTURE DELCARES

that those accepting The Mark/worshipping the beast will be eternally

REJECTED BY GOD.

. . .

Folks being out to lunch on this issue is one of the most prophetically clueless things I’ve witnessed in my adult life. And it’s all the worse given the eternal life implications. Thankfully, not every non-Christian is as thickheaded on the evidence as a lot of “Christians.”

[GiovannaNicoletta]

The idea is to get people used to having no privacy, and getting people used to having every single aspect of their lives monitored by the government.

Just like with direct deposit and debit cards. It's taken a few years, but now people would rather use the little plastic card than to carry cash around and stores and gas stations have made it easier to just pay with the card than to use cash.

It's about desensitizing people so that when the real mark is forced on people, there will be very little opposition.