Posted by Jetson21 on 12/7/2021 8:59:00 PM (view original):
QUESTION BECAUSE THIS DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE
Why are the majority of very pronounced christian faith people who vocally exclaim pro life allegiance so willing to risk their health and lives as they refuse the vaccines.
On the surface it makes no sense.
How can a believer of any faith that there is on this planet believe that their God would be ok with not safeguarding one’s life if God does think that life is truly precious.
Benjamin Franklin said this. It is not from a bible. He said God helps those that help themselves.
Technically it was an English chap named Algernon Sidney who first said it and Franklin popularized it.
Every enlightened religion believes that you should not depend upon God for something completely in your control.
So what has happened. Why are these people acting like penguins jumping off a cliff.
And what does this say about religious leadership in several major denominations.
What does it say about a significant swath of American society.
I look for the big picture as I see a country where rational people are losing ground and a country that does not have the collective grey matter or will to keep a democracy.
Ok, there are a few fringy evangelical churches that believe you should not seek medical treatments, or at least not from the medical establishment, because it's not "natural" and if God wants you to be healthy/live then He will make it happen. But not many. By and large the pushback against the vaccine has nothing to do with religion.
Pushback against all covid precautions started because the Trump administration recognized that continued economic growth was his only possible path to reelection, and that shutting down economic activity would slow or reverse the positive economic trends. That was why conservatives jumped on the "covid is no big deal, we need to push back against all covid-related restrictions" bandwagon. Since then the thing has really gone off the rails. If the people driving the train were smarter they would have done a 180, because now if Omicron were to re-shutter the b&m stores and cause even a minor downturn it would further damage Biden's popularity. But this thing is way out of the station now, and America's conservatives are stuck on their course.