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What your pet's microchip has to do with the Mark of the Beast

  • Written by Jordan Frith, Associate Professor of Technical Communication, University of North Texas

An almost invisible electronic device used all over the world – best known to much of the public for helping reunite lost pets and their owners, but also found in subway cards, electronic tolling, luggage tags, passports and warehouse inventory systems – has alarmed some evangelical Christian communities, who see in this technology the...

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