Eschatological Paranoia Of Microchips

The mark of the beast, first mentioned in Revelation 13, is a described as something that is required to buy and sell and that signifies allegiance to a figure called "the beast."  Although there is no basis for proclaiming that the world is on the verge of being forced to use this mark, the unexpected chaos of 2020 has convinced many that any reference to human microchip implants is a reference to the mark of the beast, which is supposedly at hand.  The condemnation or fear of microchip technology has simply been appraised within the framework of slippery slope fallacies that almost no evangelical treats consistently.

If it is "sinful" to endorse implanting any sort of microchip technology in humans because it will "inevitably" lead to the mark of the beast, why would it not be sinful to endorse implanting microchip technology in animals, since an obvious benefit of doing so would be to test the chips for future human use?  What about opposing the steps prior to using microchips to track or experiment on animals?  Moreover, if it is sinful to support any kind of technology that could be used for vile purposes by an tyrannical, eschatological regime, practically all technology would have to be abandoned!

The evangelicals who fret about every rumor of a human microchip being Revelation 13's "mark of the beast" would have to literally oppose every technological advance that could be used by a hypothetical regime of an Antichrist if they wanted to truly be consistent in their paranoia and suspicion.  After all, if a microchip will ever be used in such a way, numerous technological innovations would have to be made in order to reach the point where an electronic device used for making purchases could be placed inside a person's right hand or forehead.

The almost universal lack of consistency among evangelicals who look to everything involving a microchip as if it signals the coming of an apocalyptic Antichrist figure shows that they have not thought very deeply about the matter on some levels.  Of course, technology itself is never evil and it is legalistic, and therefore Biblically immoral, to treat it as such (Deuteronomy 4:2), and nothing cannot be misused.  Still, it does not follow from the possibility of a tyrannical misuse of technology that the mark of the beast is around every corner.

2020 has been a year full of renewed unverifiable and unfalsifiable predictions about the allegedly impending mark of the beast, and yet there is no evidence that an Antichrist figure has plotted to force anyone to worship his image and take his mark, lest they be excluded from the world's economies and killed (as Revelation 13:11-17 describes).  More importantly, the evil that so many evangelicals expect to mark the "last days" is actually far tamer today than it was at other points in the historical record [1].  There is no reason to suspect that the current era is on the precipice of an apocalypse, and there is plenty of evidence to the contrary.


[1].  https://thechristianrationalist.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-days-of-noah.html