|
There are (or at least were) strains of thought in certain fundamentalist circles that Satan will attempt to mark everybody with the number of the beast.
Given modern times, this lead to modern interpretations. They weren't so much objecting to the barcodes on the books but the barcodes on the library cards they'd have to carry (it didn't help that library cards were a new concept in our library system, until automation we didn't have them). They viewed this as the first step towards putting the barcode on them.
Apparently Satan was a technology freak and had embraced the efficiency of barcode scanners.
|