? Taking the Mark means you are worshipping the beast.
That would be a very strange and incorrect interpretation in my view. The ‘Mark’ is not all that well defined in scripture but we know this about it from Revelation 13:17 “And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” From this, we can deduce that it has some identification features about it and that it ties into a financial system of some sort. Being outfitted with the ‘Mark’ is not synonymous with ‘worshipping the beast’…..especially if it was forcibly inscribed/inserted etc. On the other hand, I’d agree that if one ‘willingly received the Mark’, this would indicate someone who would also be willing to ‘worship the beast’.