Evangelicals fear the 'mark of the beast' from a coronavirus vaccine
“I’m 70 and I've gotten sick before,” said Popham. “I don’t have a great immune system.”
“It will keep track of us,” she said. “Kind of like in the end days, as the Bible says, you’ll be numbered.” Some Christian scholars have recently sought to debunk attempts to link the coronavirus vaccine to the Mark of the Beast through detailed biblical analysis. But the general impulse among Evangelicals is skepticism toward secular authority, including measures taken in the name of public health.
In fact, Sexton suggested that “one of the reasons why they have the dedicated political base that they do and… why they support [Trump] the way they do, is because they truly believe they're engaged in an end-times war, and everything from 'happy holidays' to vaccinations, extends from that.” “I'm seeing a lot of people who, in the past I would’ve characterized as mildly conservative, who are now embracing extreme views,” he said. “I think that the pandemic has not only brought up the narrative of the end times, and conspiracies against Christians, but it's also led to people looking for something to give them an answer, because obviously the government hasn't done it.”
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