Modern technology links mind-control fear to the Antichrist’s Mark of the Beast

Evidence

UFO conspiracists have also co-opted the Rapture. Those who are worthy will be lifted off the earth, not by Christ but by alien spaceships. According to Timothy Green Beckley, the Tribulation and the Rapture are nothing less than predictions of the calamities that will soon befall the earth and of the arrival of aliens to effect what he and others refer to as “the Evacuation.” — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy, 1045 (#pays-off, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Rapture imagery has been secularly reworked as alien evacuation — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 1045; A fear of machine consciousness has defined Western storytelling for millennia — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 275; Technology threads turned the Antichrist into a system-of-control concept — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 261 (+4 more)

Related

• Rapture imagery has been secularly reworked as alien evacuation (similarity 0.83)
• Antichrist theorizing has converged with mind-control conspiracy via the Mark of the Beast. (similarity 0.83)
• Technology threads turned the Antichrist into a system-of-control concept (similarity 0.79)