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Wow, this level of smugness must do great in vaxxer Facebook groups! Let’s just hope there’s no crossover with other religious groups because there might be a s
by tinus_hn 5y ago
Wow, this level of smugness must do great in vaxxer Facebook groups! Let’s just hope there’s no crossover with other religious groups because there might be a slight problem requiring religion to be consistent.
- sneak 5y agoReligion being a protected class is itself inconsistent: all of the other protected classes are inherent attributes (except veteran status), not optional adult discretionary choices.
- lalaland1125 5y agoReligion tends not to be much of a choice in practice due to childhood indoctrination and other factors. In the US, a child of Muslim parents is literally 250 times more likely to grow up to be a Muslim as an adult compared to the children of non Muslim parents.
- atatatat 5y agoSource? Also, either way: do vegetarianism.
- sneak 5y agoReligion is always a choice. Childhood indoctrination can influence adult choices, but does not confer any innate traits. Choosing to blindly continue to accept childhood indoctrination as an adult is itself a choice.
- throwaway210222 5y ago> Religion is always a choice. Except for that death-for-apostasy bit a particular crowd likes to hand out.
- sneak 5y agoImplicit in my statement was US jurisdiction, implied by the invocation of US anti discrimination regulation terminology (“protected class”). Fortunately, that doesn’t happen too often in the USA.
- rsynnott 5y agoSo the other major religious objection would be Christian Scientists, who wouldn’t use any of the listed drugs anyway. I’m struggling to think of a religion that would object to all of the covid vaccines (I believe one of them has a milk derived ingredient, but you don’t have to take that one) but wouldn’t object to all sorts of other common drugs.