Nothing in the Bible leads to being anti-vax or anti-mask, so where does that come from?

fully in favor of vaccination.

The ones who aren't found their doctrine up their asses.

Chapter Seven.

It’s definitely screwed up.

to search for religious underpinnings here. It's being employed as a fig leaf of sorts - but the motivation and rationale clearly arise from a different source. Starkly different I might add.
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and some of them are total wack-jobs. But you know, the flock follows.

From: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+13%3A45-46&version=ESV

Leviticus 13:45-46

thin air.

what I think too. It’s just something right wing nut jobs made up and pushed.

that doesn't buy into modern medicine is Christian Science. A truly nutcase religion. Read God's Perfect Child: Living and dying in the Christian Science Church by Caroline Fraser for a truly eye-opening look. I originally read that book around the time it first came out, and was totally blown away. I recently purchased a new copy, because I really should re-read it.

I'm not sure if it was Fraser, or someone else who said, a while back, that with Christian Scientists, you see them dying of diseases and conditions that otherwise went away a century or more ago.

Fraser also wrote Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder which is perhaps the very best book I have ever read. Before that came out, I had already read every other supposed biography of LIW, and probably every other peripheral book around her. Most of those assumed that her Little House books were essentially straightforward biography, which they are not, as Fraser clearly points out. She goes into the history of the Ingallses, the Quiners (her mother's family), and the Wilder families. What she has to say about daughter Rose is revealing. Daughter Rose was an acolyte of Ayn Rand, and a bit of a nutcase in her own right. And incredible book. Especially for those of you who might, as I did, have grown up reading the Little House Books, it's an invaluable resource.

There are hundreds of them.

I know of at least a dozen that reject vaccinations. They allow emergency medicine--Luke was a physician. But that's setting bones, stitching wounds. They reject statins and vaccines.

Why? God heals.

Isa. 53:5. By his wounds we are healed. The snarky comment would be, "Fauci's wounds? Hardly."

Many of these groups--not all, by any means--are also torah-observant. Yes, God hates shrimp. And gay sex. And premarital straight sex. And ... (At the same time, I've seen these groups also reach out and help a the poor and homeless. "Hypocrite" is not a good term for them.)

I will say that I think that absolutely NO religious exemptions to vaccines should be allowed.

(in aversion to certain medical practice/intervention)

Science is based on reason and empirical evidence, which is opposed to belief based on faith and the sacred scripture

Therefore vaccines are heretical

most religions don't hold such extreme anti-empirical, anti-science points of view - at least in current practice and interpretation. Most believers these days don't have any problem with the dichotomy of "God heals - but the dentist fixes cavities -and doctor lances boils."

and messenger-RNA vaccines?? I find that hard to believe!

I firmly believe that the Constitution doesn't allow an Air Force because James Madison was dead-set against folks flyin'...........