mark of the beast?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: kelley <kelley () rakfoundry com>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:17:33 -0500
To: <dave () farber net>
Subject: mark of the beast?

Dave,

I've heard of some folks in the more paranoid wings of the security
community talk about the "mark of the beast" with reference to RFID
implants, but this is the first time I've seen anyone apply them to
fingerprint scans.

For IP, if you wish:

Pro-Convenience or Anti-Religion?
WTAP News
Todd Baucher

There's a biblical passage about the use of parts of the body to control
resources. And the Wood County Board Of Education has been told that's why
a system to keep track of students paying for lunch could be anti-Christian.

"It's a constant issue of replacing lunch cards and people losing them,"
says Superintendent Bill Niday, "or someone else losing a lunch card and
charging a meal to your account. So we felt we had to try this to see if
this would improve accuracy and efficiency of what we're doing with our
food service program."

But this method of electronically scanning fingerprints to identify
students, has been criticized by local pastor Tim Burch as possibly
violating a biblical passage.

"It certainly wasn't an idea we had heard of before we implemented this
process," Niday says. "Yes, that was new to us, and we had not heard that
before."

Kent Boone, pastor of the North Parkersburg Baptist Church explains it is
an issue with certain Christians.
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the rest at:
http://www.wtap.com/news/headlines/1303762.html


Best regards,


Kelley

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