by Susan Brinkmann
Ever since a Wisconsin company implanted microchips into their employees to do away with company badges, concerns have been rising about how widespread this practice might become in the future – and what threats this practice will pose to American freedom.
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Pennsylvania State Representative Tina Davis (D) recently introduced a bill that will protect employees from companies who might want to force them to be chipped.
“My legislation will require that any employer that offers a microchip, or any kind of subdermal device to be implanted for use during the employee’s work, must make it a voluntary decision,” Davis wrote in a July 28 memo to the House of Representatives.
“An employee’s body is their own and they should have the final say as to what will be added to it. My bill will protect employees from being punished or retaliated against for choosing not to have the subdermal microchip or other technological device implanted. As technology advances, we need to make sure we provide employee protections that keep up with these advances and do not allow employers to have control over their employees’ bodies.”
Thus far, California, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Wisconsin have laws prohibiting the mandatory implantation of RFID’s (radio frequency identification technology).
The faithful are also very much against this practice.
Years ago, Father John Echert, S.S.L., answered a question about whether or not microchipping was the “mark of the beast” referred to in the Book of Revelation and here is what he had to say:
“And while I generally exercise caution when it comes to matters that may manifest aspects of the Apocalypse, I will state this definitively: I will not submit to such a procedure or allow such a chip or device to be planted on my person, regardless of the consequences. Such is an invasion of privacy, represents excessive government control upon the individual, and corresponds too closely to a possible fulfillment of the ‘mark of the Beast’ of the Apocalypse.”
He continues: “No doubt the argument will be that we need such chips implanted for security purposes, and to many people this seem reasonable or preferable to stolen identities or violence by unknown perpetrators. But I would prefer take [sic] my chances with the uncertainty of terrorism to the absolute control of a government over us by such devices. None of us can know with absolute certitude whether or not we are approaching the enigmatic warnings of Revelationregarding the rise of the Anti-Christ and the mark of the Beast, but I view a microchip under the skin as sufficient evidence along such lines to refuse it.”
He advises the questioner not to overreact to the idea, but to resolve to live more faithfully to Christ.
“ . . . [A]nd if the day does come that something so terrible is attempted as this chip, I recommend its refusal. God has marked His own and will spiritually protect them.”