Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: March 29, 2024, 3:31 am

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
exempt from vaccines for religious reasons
#1
exempt from vaccines for religious reasons
I feel like this might be an odd thread to start. I also don't know if this should go here, but medicine is a science, but it's about religion. (eh, I never know where anything should go.) Anyway, I am a student service intern at my college. I do whatever needs doing for student services. One day last month I was organizing health forms (and other student forms) and I ran into one that said she was exempt from the vaccines required to go to school for religious reasons.
I am not sure what I wanted to say about it, but I wanted to say words.
Aren't vaccines supposed to protect the person who got it and other people? yeah, I got the vaccine to protect me, but what if the virus evolves into a strain my immune system can't handle? that can happen, yes, no? well, it wouldn't be that likely. I know I'm bound to run into people not vaccinated on the street, but it is a little different when you are living on campus with them.
I'm not worried about it or anything like that. so, you don't need to tell me I'm not going to catch a deadly disease, that could have been prevented if that one person got her shots. I guess, I just wanted to hear thoughts on the matter. If anyone has any. If not, oh, well.
[Image: siggy2_by_Cego_Colher.jpg]
Reply
#2
RE: exempt from vaccines for religious reasons
It's a fine example of the kowtowing to stupidity everytime someone plays the religion card.

I would agree that if someone does not want to take a vaccine (for any reason) that they should have that right.
They also forfeit the right to attend an institution which requires said vaccination.
Reply
#3
RE: exempt from vaccines for religious reasons
(October 13, 2010 at 12:59 am)Minimalist Wrote: It's a fine example of the kowtowing to stupidity everytime someone plays the religion card.

I would agree that if someone does not want to take a vaccine (for any reason) that they should have that right.
They also forfeit the right to attend an institution which requires said vaccination.

They should also pay a medical insurance premiums commensurate with their own increased risk, and be subject to compulsory preventive quarantine with judicial penalties for evasion commensurate with the increased risk they pose to the public should the disease whose vaccine they refuse be transmittable from human to human.



Reply
#4
RE: exempt from vaccines for religious reasons
Yes, what Chuck said Big GrinBig GrinBig Grin
Reply
#5
RE: exempt from vaccines for religious reasons
Quote:They should also pay a medical insurance premiums commensurate with their own increased risk


Idiots like that should be praying to their silly god to cure them instead of wasting the time of doctors.
Reply
#6
RE: exempt from vaccines for religious reasons
(October 13, 2010 at 2:06 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:They should also pay a medical insurance premiums commensurate with their own increased risk


Idiots like that should be praying to their silly god to cure them instead of wasting the time of doctors.

They can "pray" all they want for their invisible friend to cure them, but I have a problem when they deny children the right to real medicine because of their bullshit religious beliefs. Children who don't know any better have to suffer when they are not seen by a real doctor because their parents thought some sky fairy would "miraculously" cure them.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

Atheist I Evolved!
Reply
#7
RE: exempt from vaccines for religious reasons
Quote:Children who don't know any better have to suffer


Most of their children will grow up to be as stupid as their parents. Natural selection needs to cull the herd.
Reply
#8
RE: exempt from vaccines for religious reasons
(October 15, 2010 at 4:50 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:Children who don't know any better have to suffer


Most of their children will grow up to be as stupid as their parents. Natural selection needs to cull the herd.

The Atheists need to have more children. Evolution is far from driven solely by natural selection.


Reply
#9
RE: exempt from vaccines for religious reasons
Quote:The Atheists need to have more children. Evolution is far from driven solely by natural selection.

yeah, but most of us know what birth control is... more of them think: teach abstinence only, and some of them might still think that they shouldn't ever use BC, even after they get married.
[Image: siggy2_by_Cego_Colher.jpg]
Reply
#10
RE: exempt from vaccines for religious reasons
Then sterilize fundies.

Religion also undergo evolution by natural selection for traits which best enable it to grow and fester in a population. Since most people with religious beliefs inherits their parent's religious beliefs, the religions that incited the largest population increase will crowd out those which discourage excessive breeding. So after a whole the religious landscape settles down to a few large religions that tend to all advocate wanton population increase. Religions which in their strictures or in their rituals did not encourage wanton procreation tend not to get very very large and eventually sputter. It is no surprise that the Catholic church impose such strictures on birthcontrol, nor Christian looking at Muslim birthrates with such trepidation. In the very depth of their minds, they know its not about theology, but about secular birthrate.

When the Hebrews imagined their tyrant in the sky told them to go forth and multiply, they are but reflecting their own knowledge of this up onto their deity. When the carrying capacity of the land or the whole planet is reached, and religious people still breed like crazy in order to hog larger portion of the now fixed pie, people who plan their family sizes responsibly in an otherwise enlightened manner is effectively subsidizing, through their own restraint, the wanton behavior of those who still breed like rats.

Reply



Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Vaccines: Low trust in vaccination 'a global crisis' zebo-the-fat 20 2059 September 6, 2019 at 8:28 am
Last Post: LastPoet
  The Truth about Vaccines:A quick refutation Duke Guilmon 92 20829 May 8, 2017 at 2:49 pm
Last Post: Fidel_Castronaut
  Ten Reasons Bacteria is [censored] Awesome TheDarkestOfAngels 7 4016 February 12, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Last Post: KichigaiNeko



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)