School cafeteria's palm scanner is 'mark of beast,' says parent

Mamie Sonnier, who rages at the machine.

(Credit: KPLC-TV Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)

Technology is taken for granted by those who design it, grow up with it, or worship it as if it's a digital deity.

Yet not everyone believes that, for example, giving 24-Hour Fitness your fingerprint in order to lose a little blubber is such a natural, safe act.

Take certain parents at Moss Bluff Elementary School in Louisiana. Their arms are raised up high in celestial fright at the school's heathen attempts to introduce a palm scanner into the cafeteria.

As KPLC-TV reports it, the parents see the devil in the details.

Mamie Sonnier, a very concerned parent, told KPLC-TV: "As a Christian, I've read the Bible, you know go to church and stuff. I know where it's going to end up coming to, the mark of the beast. I'm not going to let my kids have that."

Naturally, there will be some who thoughtlessly scoff at such a notion. After all, the school has said very clearly that this scanner is simply a way of getting kids to move more quickly through the lunch line.

And yet perhaps they should have read Revelations 14: 9,10 a little more closely. Fo... [Read more]