When imagining what the future may look like, for many the Bible is the last place they would look. Yet for many Christians it has always been the first and foremost source of vital information. Why is this still the case after more than two thousand years? After the age of enlightenment and the subsequent ages of Post Modernism, Post Christianity and Post Truth? Are we so far advanced that reading such an outdated piece of literature could be relegated to the library section of folktales and fantasy?
Take a few minutes to read the above quote and frame the words in the mind of someone who lived at the time it was written. Technology for the world was still based in agriculture. Concepts of controlling the masses were easily perceived through the use of the sword and military strength. Yet here we read of a ‘Mark’ that will allow a select people to be able to buy and sell as they please. A global system of commerce that is only in today’s world being developed and established: A truly cashless society. …show more content…
To begin with we can look at the way Puerto Rico has suffered in the recent wake of weather and power outages. The system of banking has been disrupted with the end result of the countries ATM’s are no longer available. This leads to a shortage of physical money to be used to buy needed resources (Press, 2017). Essentially commerce has come to a partial collapse, while many citizens have become inadvertently marginalised. A form of social and economic segregation is taking place. One that has the ability to create a social construct that can separate those that have access to resources and those that are forced into a secondary or subservient
Take a few minutes to read the above quote and frame the words in the mind of someone who lived at the time it was written. Technology for the world was still based in agriculture. Concepts of controlling the masses were easily perceived through the use of the sword and military strength. Yet here we read of a ‘Mark’ that will allow a select people to be able to buy and sell as they please. A global system of commerce that is only in today’s world being developed and established: A truly cashless society. …show more content…
To begin with we can look at the way Puerto Rico has suffered in the recent wake of weather and power outages. The system of banking has been disrupted with the end result of the countries ATM’s are no longer available. This leads to a shortage of physical money to be used to buy needed resources (Press, 2017). Essentially commerce has come to a partial collapse, while many citizens have become inadvertently marginalised. A form of social and economic segregation is taking place. One that has the ability to create a social construct that can separate those that have access to resources and those that are forced into a secondary or subservient