Why Evangelicals Started Looking for 666 in Barcodes @ReligionForBreakfast
Why Evangelicals Started Looking for 666 in Barcodes  @ReligionForBreakfast
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Revelation 13 describes a mark, 666, branded on people so that no one can buy or sell without it. How did American evangelicals come to read that as a barcode, a microchip, or a vaccine? A history of a fifty-year search, and what the text originally meant.

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Why Evangelicals Started Looking for 666 in Barcodes

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