We’re in the 21st century, and the vast majority of us still believe in an utterly and obviously fictional creator deity. Plenty of people, even in developed countries with decent educational systems, still believe in ghosts or magic (e.g. voodoo). And I–an atheist and a skeptic–am told I need to respect these patently false beliefs as cultural traditions.
Fuck that. They’re bad cultural traditions, undeserving of respect. Child-proofing society for these intellectually stunted people doesn’t help them; it is in fact a disservice to them to pretend it’s okay to go through life believing these things. We should demand that people contend with reality on a factual basis by the time they reach adulthood (even earlier, if I’m being completely honest). We shouldn’t be coddling people who profess beliefs that are demonstrably false, simply because their feelings might get hurt.
Vaccines has nothing to do with Christianity. What you are tired of is willful ignorance, which absolutely is not tightly coupled at all.
You are agreeing with a take that essentially is saying if you don’t believe what I believe your decisions shouldn’t be respected.
That makes you as bad as the willfully ignorant christians you mention (cool blanket btw, very logical and defendable)
For example, here is an SDA Christian university that is highly ranked for their medical program and hospital. They absolutely support vaccines and every other standard agreed upon by the medical field at large.
Just this August ‘23: https://news.llu.edu/patient-care/us-news-world-report-names-loma-linda-university-medical-center-among-best-region
https://studentconsort.com/is-loma-linda-a-good-medical-school/
Here they are pushing for vaccinations in Jan ‘21: https://news.llu.edu/community/covid-19-vaccine-clinics-open-large-scale-effort-vaccinate-community
“Our goal is to get as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible so we can bring this pandemic to an end,” he said. “We believe the most effective way to end the pandemic is to get 80% of our population vaccinated. We want to do our part to make that happen.”
I feel like you will respond along the lines of this perhaps being an outlier, so here is the entire SDA Christian church organization affirming and supporting vaccination and other science based health initiatives: https://adventistreview.org/news/reaffirming-the-seventh-day-adventist-church-covid-response/
But go on, tell us how Christians push vaccine disinfo. This isn’t a no true Scotsman defense, it’s a criticism on your blanket judgement of all who share a religious belief in relation to Jesus Christ and all that.
I just woke up, not feeling like reading a ton, but based off your first sentence I’m not missing out, I never said they were related.