Why do fundies say vaccines are unchristian

[FBI-chan]

Don't sperg about covid because this isn't about covid, it's about christian fundamentalists and their antivax tendencies, which have dated far before covid (but people using christianity as a justification against taking any sort of vaccine at all is an increasing fad among less radical christians).

I'm speaking strictly about christians rejecting vaccines, and citing christianity as the justification.

It's just strange that antivax thought is heavily tinged with christian overtones, because those two things seem like completely unrelated topics.

I can understand caution against vaccines (especially useless ones like the yearly flu vaccine, or the covid vaccine when it was pushed while it was barely out of the testing phase) on the basis of wariness of big pharma or other authorities, but I have never seen anyone actually articulate a religious reason (other than JWs citing specific passages in the bible in rejecting blood transfusions, but that has little to nothing to do with vaccines, and JWs don't inherently forbid vaccination).

 

[I'm Retarded?]

because, like everything else, religion is often used as a post-hoc justification for things people already believe. the actual argument is likely barebones at best - almost certainly the "Your body is a temple, keep it holy" verse, or the mark of the beast thing from Revelation - the real story is that they're already skeptical, or they're getting something out of the fantasy of being an embattled Holy Warrior in a world of sin. emotion comes first, reasoning later.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

I'm speaking strictly about christians rejecting vaccines, and citing christianity as the justification.

Some vaccines are made with cells extracted from aborted babies. Christians view abortion as no different than murder, and thus will not take the chance on using a vaccine derived from dead babies.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

This is something I have been confused about for years as well. And yes, this isn't about covid jabs, this is about people who don't vaccinate their children for polio and who should have those children removed from them because they are putting not only their children at risk but other people's as well.

EDIT: I've see a ton of conspiracy type talk from people about abortion being used to help produce modern vaccines. If anyone's got 100% iron clad certain evidence please share.

 

[Nice Stick]

Ultra-Orthodox Jews reject vaccines, but somehow redditards never complain about them.

 

[Slap47]

The fastest growing branch of Christianity is a strange evangelical prosperity gospel that says that God loves the rich, Jews are an elevated race you exist to serve and you should disown family over sins (but not other more serious sins).

People are quite ignorant of the Bible and its history.

Some vaccines are made with cells extracted from aborted babies. Christians view abortion as no different than murder, and thus will not take the chance on using a vaccine derived from dead babies.

They can culture the cells so vaccines don't require deaths to be made.

 

[FBI-chan]

Some vaccines are made with cells extracted from aborted babies. Christians view abortion as no different than murder, and thus will not take the chance on using a vaccine derived from dead babies.

This is rarely the justification. Usually they say something about their right to self-autonomy (but uniquely christian, somehow). They rarely ever mention the use of fetal tissue in the development of some vaccines. The majority of antivaxers are probably not even aware of it/were already antivax before even knowing that a few vaccines have used fetal tissue during research and development, and only use that factoid to bolster their existing thought after becoming aware of it.

Yet in the case of the Catholic church, cited in that page, Catholic authorities seem to encourage campaigns for vaccines made without fetal tissue, rather than a rejection of vaccines themselves.
But fundies reject vaccines entirely, regardless of whether fetal tissue was used at all.
It's easy to find out which vaccines were developed with the use of fetal tissue and which ones were not, but fundies reject all vaccines on a basis that has little to do with abortion.

The production of those vaccines don't rely on abortion anyway, so it's not like a rabies vaccine contains bits of aborted fetus in it. Fetal tissue derived from abortion was used in the development phase, but production does not rely on harvesting abortions.
If even that remote connection is a deterrence, then they won't be morally consistent until they reject nearly all of medicine, as much of medical research (along with the civilized world) had been built upon even worse atrocities.

 

[BinaricHate]

The fastest growing branch of Christianity is a strange evangelical prosperity gospel that says that God loves the rich, Jews are an elevated race you exist to serve and you should disown family over sins

What? No? You would be pressed to find a single zoomer on social media who has a cross in his bio that has anything slightly positive to say about kikes and israel.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Growing up, the antivax movement was mainly hippies and parents to autists. During/Post COVID the media tried to frame antivaxers as being religious/right wing, and seemingly some took the bait.

What? No? You would be pressed to find a single zoomer on social media who has a cross in his bio that has anything slightly positive to say about kikes and israel.

Similar to leftists living 20 years in the past when Bush wad president, people on the right think the treatment of Israel is a universal constant.