RE: Vaccination exemption in CA, personal down, medical up
September 22, 2017 at 4:29 pm
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2017 at 4:31 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(September 22, 2017 at 1:28 pm)JamieBra Wrote:(September 22, 2017 at 1:11 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Also another "reason" against vaccination:
"Human papillomavirus can be transmitted non-sexually. According to Health News, HPV can't be killed by disinfectants, so there is a risk of being infected by a medical instrument or tool that harbors the virus. Also, a pregnant woman is able to transmit the virus to her unborn baby."
Yeah, as if there is another reason like misogyny. Just like you pointed out it's not about sex, women get HPV from other sources, but it's supposed to be the guys that get affected, so bishops supposedly think if guys are afraid that they'll get HPV they'll want less sex, but even that to me doesn't make sense. At that time (2012) I remember watching some BBC documentary about how women should be vaccinated against HPV because guys will get HPV trough oral sex and develop throat cancer (did someone say Michael Douglas?). Which again doesn't make sense because there would be hoards of guys dying for quite long time by now so BBC's answer to this is that guys didn't do oral on women until 1990s and they even pointed a particular event that popularized it which was Clinton's affair to Monica Lewinsky. Which is again nonsense because at least they have porn stars on record doing it and no one had those problems.
So sexual reasons for not vaccinating against HPV seem really weak. Bishops simply want less women and virus that causes ovarian cancer is the one. Especially when you're a bishop and see everything as a message from god and you interpret it as you want.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"