I had to re-read this a few times to make sure it wasn’t satire, but it’s for real.
The Virginia House of Delegates has just passed a bill that supporters hope will keep the Antichrist at bay.
You hear a loud whirring noise, you say? That would be Thomas Jefferson and James Madison spinning like tops in their Virginia graves.
Yes, it’s true. Yesterday House members approved a measure that would prohibit employers and insurance companies from requiring people to implant microchips in their bodies.
*snip*
. . . according to The Washington Post, there are some fundamentalist Christians out there whose analysis of end-times biblical prophecy leads them to believe that the Antichrist will appear soon and force everyone to accept the “mark of the Beast” in their persons. That “mark,” they think, could easily be the microchip.
The Post reports that Del. Mark L. Cole (R –Fredericksburg), the bill’s sponsor, has both privacy and religious concerns. He thinks the microchips could someday be used as the “mark of the beast” described in the Book of Revelation.
I was LMAO at this paragraph:
So let me get this straight: the Antichrist – the personification of Evil itself – is going to show up in America and start imposing the mark of Beast. He rolls through states such California, Kansas and Delaware, but when he gets to the Virginia line, he and his legions of demons just have to stop dead in their sulfurous tracks.
“Sorry, boys,” he’ll say. “Virginia’s got a law that says we can’t mess with the good folks there.”
While this sort of thing isn’t very important since it’s concerning something imaginary that is never going to happen anyway, it is taking time away from important REAL issues like unemployment, education and state budgets.
And as Joseph Conn states:
And most importantly, it does enormous harm when legislators get the idea that it’s perfectly okay for them to enact laws based on religion.
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