Who is to say the social security number is or isn’t the mark of the beast?

I’ve yet to hear of anyone kicked out of a store in the western liberal order for lack of one. On the other hand, the Covid shot yes. You’re perhaps forgetting one of the key elements to the story is not just “a mark” but that it is required for your ability to operate in life.

That my undocumented school mates had no trouble getting by in life and attaining meaningful work post graduation would contraindicate the SSN being “the mark,” it wasn’t required to rhat degree.

Then again someone may come along and argue IT IS the mark but they just haven’t finished implementing that system yet.

Interpretation of religious texts is fun that way.