This pastor will sign a religious exemption for vaccines if you donate to his church

ThatRobGuy said:

I can safely say that they are, but it just isn't as polarized.

For instance, a hospital system in Arkansas is willing to grant the religious exemption based on the "fetal cell lines" argument to their employees, provided the employees are willing to sign a religious attestation form, saying that do not, and will not, use the following medications:

acetaminophen,
albuterol,
aspirin,
ibuprofen,
Tylenol,
Pepto Bismol,
Tums,
Lipitor,
Senokot,
Motrin,
Maalox,
Ex-Lax,
Benadryl,
Sudafed,
Preparation H,
Claritin,
Prilosec,
Zoloft,
Z-pak

You'd be hard pressed to find a person who hasn't at least taken one of those things. And most probably have taken some of those things quite a lot in their lifetime.

And the interesting one they didn't list on here, but was developed using cell lines: The Regeneron monoclonal antibody treatment (that many who don't want to get vaccinated are promoting). The same would be true for Z-pak I suppose since before that, people were touting the hydroxychloroquine/azithromycin combo as an alternative to vaccination.


So, if those employees (who claim to be deeply religious, which means they shouldn't be lying) truly take objection to the cell line use. They should stay away from all of the aforementioned medications and treatments.

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ThatRobGuy said:

Claiming that taking a covid vaccine makes one complicit in abortion based on the fact that decades-old fetal cell lines were used in the R&D process, is as intellectually dishonest as claiming that taking Bayer aspirin makes one complicit in the holocaust.

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ThatRobGuy said:

From a government standpoint, perhaps.

However, certain private entities are requiring a signed letter from clergy in order to excuse their employees from a vaccine requirement.

California pastor hands out COVID-19 vaccine exemption letters

For instance, this pastor in this other story was handing them out for people whose employers were requiring vaccination, or a signed letter from their clergy.

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ThatRobGuy said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/09/15/pastor-donate-vaccine-religious-exemption/


Couple of quick questions:
1) Which religious doctrine, specifically, forbids vaccination?

2) If the answer to question 1 is anything to do with the fact that R&D was done with decades-old fetal tissue cell lines, then I'd urge you to "do the research" as the same would be true with many of the medications you currently have in your medicine cabinet right now. Claiming that taking a covid vaccine makes one complicit in abortion based on the fact that decades-old fetal cell lines were used in the R&D process, is as intellectually dishonest as claiming that taking Bayer aspirin makes one complicit in the holocaust.

3) If one is invoking God using the aforementioned reasoning for this particular vaccine as a matter of political convenience, but not applying that standard to every other medication they take (that's not politically polarized), wouldn't that be taking God's name in vain?...or at the very least, cheapening it?

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ThatRobGuy said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/09/15/pastor-donate-vaccine-religious-exemption/


Couple of quick questions:
1) Which religious doctrine, specifically, forbids vaccination?

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Pavel Mosko said:

I know of at least 2 or 3 potential reasons on this

1) A few sects do not like modern medicine at all and want everything to be by Faith etc. it's a small minority of groups like Christian Science, a few Pentecostals

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