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Re:DHS Announces Extension of Real ID Full Enforcement Deadline by p_j_w on Monday December 05, 2022 @02:03PM (#33870208)
GP didn't say the ID was the mar of the beast, only that it was related to it. Having grown up in an evangelical household, I very much disagree that what he's said is a parody of what evangelicals believe. He is spot on.
Re:DHS Announces Extension of Real ID Full Enforcement Deadline by adamrezich on Monday December 05, 2022 @02:16PM (#33870407)
you have directly experienced Christians directly expressing aversion to non-bodily-invasive state or federal ID, specifically on Christian grounds?
Re:DHS Announces Extension of Real ID Full Enforcement Deadline by xnyan on Monday December 05, 2022 @02:43PM (#33870785)
Yes, frequently. It's not uncommon at all where I was raised (US South). We can talk to my father, or almost any member of his congregation, about how a national ID is a government plot to identify, control and harm the faithful.
Re:DHS Announces Extension of Real ID Full Enforcement Deadline by badwolf on Monday December 05, 2022 @03:28PM (#33871412)
It really isn't that uncommon of a belief.
Re:DHS Announces Extension of Real ID Full Enforcement Deadline by adamrezich on Monday December 05, 2022 @03:52PM (#33871746)
really? still, to this day? one would think that evangelical Christians would skew conservative, and therefore be in favor of state/federal ID, for election security purposes.
Re:DHS Announces Extension of Real ID Full Enforcement Deadline by mikeyouse on Monday December 05, 2022 @04:33PM (#33872222)
These people are extremely conservative - well past treating "election security" as a primary concern and far closer to "welcoming the return of Jesus / the rapture" as their single motivating force.
Re:DHS Announces Extension of Real ID Full Enforcement Deadline by TylerE on Monday December 05, 2022 @03:29PM (#33871419)
Yes. The Bible Belt is very very real.
Re:DHS Announces Extension of Real ID Full Enforcement Deadline by p_j_w on Monday December 05, 2022 @03:53PM (#33871767)
Yes. They (my parents) believed any sort of centralized federal ID was a "slippery slope," though they weren't educated enough to know and use that exact phrase, towards an implanted chip, barcode tattoo, or whatever form they were convinced it would take.
Re:DHS Announces Extension of Real ID Full Enforcement Deadline by spoilqueue on Monday December 05, 2022 @03:58PM (#33871831)
I certainly have. Multiple times.