Covid-19 Vaccines: Why Some Christians Decry Them as the “Mark of the Beast”

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October 11, 2021 article by Tiffany Firebaugh. Article published in the Religion and Politics newsletter – a project of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics – Washington University in St. Louis.

The controversy surrounding the Covid-19 vaccine has been monumental, with conspiracy theories abounding. One particular fringe theory arose out of evangelical apocalypticism: that the Covid-19 vaccine is the “mark of the beast”—a sign of the end times and a symbol of alignment with the Antichrist. This fear has driven some Christians to request religious exemptions to vaccine mandates. Others have created TikToks dramatizing the Covid-19 vaccine as the mark of the beast. Some in the political arena […]

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