White Evangelical Resistance Is Obstacle in Vaccination Effort (NYT)

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/us/covid-vaccine-evangelicals.html

White Evangelical Resistance Is Obstacle in Vaccination Effort
Millions of white evangelical adults in the U.S. do not intend to get vaccinated against Covid-19. Tenets of faith and mistrust of science play a role; so does politics.
By Elizabeth Dias and Ruth Graham
April 5, 2021 Updated 1:38 p.m. ET

Stephanie Nana, an evangelical Christian in Edmond, Okla., refused to get a Covid-19 vaccine because she believed it contained “aborted cell tissue.”

Nathan French, who leads a nondenominational ministry in Tacoma, Wash., said he received a divine message that God was the ultimate healer and deliverer: “The vaccine is not the savior.”

Lauri Armstrong, a Bible-believing nutritionist outside of Dallas, said she did not need the vaccine because God designed the body to heal itself, if given the right nutrients. More than that, she said, “It would be God’s will if I am here or if I am not here.”

The deeply held spiritual convictions or counterfactual arguments may vary. But across white evangelical America, reasons not to get vaccinated have spread as quickly as the virus that public health officials are hoping to overcome through herd immunity.

[abqtommy]

1. My viewpoint on the no-maskers and no-vaxxers is that we should Lock. Them. All. Up.

[Claire Oh Nette]

2. Some guy in Tacoma..

A dude in Tacoma had a vision. Uh huh.

To hell with Medical School

Let them die. Give them free housing to relocate to the dakotas.

[struggle4progress]

3. "I don't eat because God should nourish me. I don't wear clothes because

God should cover me. I don't have electric, water, or gas service because God should light my way, quench my thirst, and keep me warm. I don't own a car because whenever I need one, God always leaves one unlocked nearby with the keys in the ignition"