Biblical fanatics ran rampant across the nation

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We've got many religious nutcases in the United States Congress. I'm not sure of the exact number but I'd guess it would be in the hundreds! By nutcases, I mean christianist fundys who have no real knowledge of the Bible but believe all kinds of crap they derive from reading the same or from what their goofy pastors and preachers tell them. These nutcases also inhabit state legislatures around the country!

Here's the most recent example. In the State of Virginia, a Repugnican by name of Mark Cole introduced a bill that was "overwhelmingly approved" by the state House which would forbid "companies from forcing employees to have microchips implanted in their bodies."

Now, on the face of it that sounds like a really good thing and something any liberal would support wholeheartedly. No company should have that kind of power over the body of its employees! Cole, in fact, said, "I just think you should have the right to control your own body."

[I wonder if he feels that way about women and abortion? Probably not.]

But, as you may have guessed there's more to all this. Someone told Cole that in the Bible somewhere "there's a prophecy ... that says you'll have to receive a mark, or you can neither buy nor sell things in end times. Some people think these computer chips might be that mark."


It's very hard to comprehend such incredible gullibility and insane stupidity in the 21st century. This is stuff right out of the Dark Ages! An AOL news story about this states "The Book of Revelation describes the rise of an antichrist figure called 'the beast' as the end of the world approaches and will require everyone to 'receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads.'"

Well, hell, the obvious solution, if Cole and his moronic minions are really concerned about this, is to make sure the microchips are implanted anywhere BUT the right hand and foreheads. Sheesh! Is that so hard to understand?

It must be. Another christianist idiot, Tennessee Rep. Susan Lynn, is sponsoring a bill like Cole's and she says she's a Christian and believes these microchips might be the "Mark of the Beast." Or, maybe it might be a tatoo." Hoo, hoo!


In my opinion, no microchips should be implanted in any human being for any reason and if someone tries to do that to me, he or she is going to be looking at the barrel end of a great big gun!

It ain't gonna happen. Georgia, California, North Dakota, and Wisconsin have already banned such implants. I'd guess other states will do the same.

But please, none of this has a damn thing to do with some religious gobbledygook from the book of Revelation or any other ancient apocalyptic piece of nonsense! There is no antiChrist, these are not the "end times" and Jesus ain't coming back!


There's more here.