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Rabrrrrrr

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13. You're thinking Jehovah's Witnesses about the blood transfusion,
Mon Sep 27, 2021, 04:40 PM
Sep 2021

but otherwise - yes, none of the legitimate religious expressions are anti-vax.

It's only certain of the Evangelical/Fundamentalist Christians that are anti-vax, and those aren't really Christians, at least not in the US: they're really nationalists whose religion is the USA but they like to say "Jesus" a lot. Other countries have their own form of this ridiculous kind of Christianity as well; more than I feel like enumerating here, but the fuckers are all over the place spreading their toxic shit (and now spreading their toxic Covid).

(also, as an aside, Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh Day Adventists are born of the Millerite movement (though JW come about 40 years later), which began in northeastern NY State in the 1830s about the same time Joseph Smith, grand scam artist extraordinaire, was over on the western side of NY state inventing a new-world "religion" called Latter Day Saints)

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Exemption for religion? Sibelius Fan Sep 2021 #1
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is giving out exemptions underpants Sep 2021 #3
I like that kind of exemption IronLionZion Sep 2021 #5
I was disappointed, until I read the link. soldierant Sep 2021 #12
R'Amen to that. underpants Sep 2021 #17
Last I heard, not one religious organization in the US is... TreasonousBastard Sep 2021 #4
As a former Seventh-day Adventist A Morpheus Felinae Sep 2021 #8
My apologies-- I meant Jehovah's Witnesses. TreasonousBastard Sep 2021 #14
You're thinking Jehovah's Witnesses about the blood transfusion, Rabrrrrrr Sep 2021 #13
You're right. I confused the two, and not for the first time... TreasonousBastard Sep 2021 #16
Spot on!! Rabrrrrrr Sep 2021 #18
it is fucking ridiculous Skittles Sep 2021 #19
st luke was a christian and also supposedly christs dr. hem AllaN01Bear Sep 2021 #2
These religious folks have probably gotten other vaccines in their lives IronLionZion Sep 2021 #6
The vast majority of hospitals gab13by13 Sep 2021 #7
the Pope came out in favor of the vaccine and recommending people get it. demigoddess Sep 2021 #20
Yep. Sounds like it's time for some "tough love." calimary Sep 2021 #9
If you fire them I think even dumb fucking Republicans might vaccinate. Although I am johnthewoodworker Sep 2021 #10
Don't assume all believers won't get vaxxed AKwannabe Sep 2021 #11
Christian Scientists are against vacx. 3Hotdogs Sep 2021 #15
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