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Chrissy is fully vaccinated
@C_Stroop
I have evangelical vaccine refusers in my family, and Ive covered the Christian Right beat for six years. Im done sugarcoating things. Coddling Christian nationalists is a luxury Americans can no longer afford.
My latest, on evangelical vaccine refusal
As White Evangelical Vaccine Refusal Reminds Us, Sometimes Religion is the Problem
This week, youre likely to encounter a lot of commentary on PRRI and Interfaith Youth Cores new report on religious groups and vaccine acceptance, most of it optimistic. And to be sure, there are...
religiondispatches.org
9:48 AM · Jul 29, 2021
Chrissy is fully vaccinated
@C_Stroop
I have evangelical vaccine refusers in my family, and Ive covered the Christian Right beat for six years. Im done sugarcoating things. Coddling Christian nationalists is a luxury Americans can no longer afford.
My latest, on evangelical vaccine refusal
As White Evangelical Vaccine Refusal Reminds Us, Sometimes Religion is the Problem
This week, youre likely to encounter a lot of commentary on PRRI and Interfaith Youth Cores new report on religious groups and vaccine acceptance, most of it optimistic. And to be sure, there are...
religiondispatches.org
9:48 AM · Jul 29, 2021
https://religiondispatches.org/as-white-evangelical-vaccine-refusal-reminds-us-sometimes-religion-is-the-problem/
This week, youre likely to encounter a lot of commentary on PRRI and Interfaith Youth Cores new report on religious groups and vaccine acceptance, most of it optimistic. And to be sure, there are good reasons for optimism relative to the majority of faith communities in the United States, where interventions from religious leaders seem to have helped to reduce resistance to receiving the COVID vaccine. What you will probably not see outside of this article, however, is any pushback on the authors underlying assumption that religious communities are, in and of themselves, essentially good, pro-social thingsan assumption thats clearly implicit in the reports emphasis on how faith-based approaches still have the potential to be effective for hesitant and refusing groups. And yet, to riff on Maya Angelous important insight, when a religious group tells you that their racist, sexist, anti-LGBTQ, and conspiracist politics are an integral aspect of their religious identity, its prudent to believe them.
Its worth noting the religiously unaffiliated are doing reasonably well at 75% vaccine acceptance, although some religious demographics are doing better. 12% of the religiously unaffiliated are vaccine refusers, a number that has held steady since PRRIs previous survey, while 13% are hesitant, a figure that fell from 28% in March. Its likely that the middling performance of the religiously unaffiliated has something to do with the demographics relative youth and the barriers to access the report shows to be disproportionately affecting younger respondents as well as respondents of color. In addition, based on general trends in data where such differentiation is used, I feel reasonably confident suggesting that if self-defined atheists, humanists, and agnostics were polled separately from the undifferentiated mass of nones, their numbers would be better.
In any case, the reports assumptions notwithstanding, the data clearly show that Americas white Christians continue to exhibit a large and dangerous anti-social and anti-democratic streak. The reports treatment of the white evangelical demographic in particular seems to be overly rosy, given that the drop in white evangelical vaccine refusal from March to June, from 26% to 24%, is tiny and only just inside the surveys margin of error (+/- 1.65 percentage points). White evangelicals are also tied with Mormons, at 72%, as the demographic thats most supportive of arguably unconstitutional and certainly anti-social religious exemptions to vaccination requirements.
To be sure, in the interest of seeing as many Americans as possible get vaccinated, particularly as the Delta strain surges, its worth understanding what might motivate even the most resistant populations to take that step. The PRRI report indicates that religious intervention most likely influenced the uptick in vaccinations among the white evangelical population from March to June, from 45% to 56%, with a concomitant decline in hesitancy from 28% to 20%.
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As White Evangelical Vaccine Refusal Reminds Us, Sometimes Religion is the Problem (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jul 2021
OP
Why don't they get that anti-vaxxint their sheeple is against their self-interest?
3Hotdogs
Jul 2021
#3
roamer65
(36,745 posts)1. Fundamentalist religions are POISON.
Its about time we start treating them that way.
Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)2. It's ironic how they're proving Darwin's theory of natural selection
3Hotdogs
(12,374 posts)3. Why don't they get that anti-vaxxint their sheeple is against their self-interest?
Dead sheeple don't tithe.
Republican leaders are starting to figure out that dead sheeple don't vote either.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,429 posts)4. History shows
that organized religion is USUALLY the problem.
Skittles
(153,159 posts)5. I just wish people would learn to live in the REAL world
the world would be better, for sure
Iggo
(47,552 posts)6. When's it ain't?
Hugin
(33,135 posts)7. I have a question...
Is there any major religion which expressly forbids vaccination?
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)8. Religion generally involves a refusal to separate reality and fantasy
Religion involves faith - the belief in things that cannot be logically inferred from observable facts.
JHB
(37,159 posts)9. Creationism already taught them to reject science and scientists
And as they've gained an increasing hold on the GQP, their gossipy gullibility and embrace of conspiracy theories has spread.
"Did you know that KISS" (the band name) "stands for Knights In Service of Satan?"
malaise
(268,967 posts)10. Sometimes?
scipan
(2,350 posts)11. Tell me again that religion was evolutionarily selected
for.
Maybe it's a case of a little is good, a lot is bad.