Think missing emails and hard drives are bad? How about millions of ID compromised bank accounts shutting down all electronic transactions? You want your money, prove who you are with the chip by X Mark.
Facts are most people worship money first and the Creator gets an honorable mention at pagan festival times. This is literally the old robbery saying "Your money, or your eternal life!"
They have something like this going on in ISIS areas right now. If you don’t bow down and worship their false god you die or are prevented from anything they feel like preventing you from.