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CousinIT

(9,213 posts) Tue Sep 14, 2021, 08:59 AM Sep 2021

"If you insist on refusing the vaccine, that is your right. But please do not bring God into it."

PAYWALL: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/06/opinion/religious-exemptions-vaccine-mandates.html

“My plea to my fellow Christians: If you insist on refusing the vaccine, that is your right. But please do not bring God into it.”

Curtis Chang, a consulting faculty member at Duke Divinity School, writing in The New York Times that there is no theological basis for a religious exemption to the COVID vaccine for Christians.

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"If you insist on refusing the vaccine, that is your right. But please do not bring God into it." (Original Post) CousinIT Sep 2021 OP

God is a tool for most Christians... Omnipresent Sep 2021 #1

Or a weapon... Wounded Bear Sep 2021 #6

"'Sincerity' does not justify putting others at risk." DinahMoeHum Sep 2021 #2

As that assistant football coach at Navy Deminpenn Sep 2021 #3

Actually I do bring God into it when I speak to these "Christians": LiveToLurk Sep 2021 #4

Please do not bring your imaginary friend into it. SamKnause Sep 2021 #5

So GOD is cool Corgigal Sep 2021 #7

As the story goes, the devil took Jesus to the top of the temple and invited him to jump... Thomas Hurt Sep 2021 #8

Omnipresent

(5,674 posts)

1. God is a tool for most Christians...

Reply to CousinIT (Original post)

Tue Sep 14, 2021, 09:10 AM

Sep 2021

They know God’s as real as Santa or the Easter bunny.
If I’m lying, may God strike me dead!

Wounded Bear

(58,574 posts)

6. Or a weapon...

Reply to Omnipresent (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 14, 2021, 10:27 AM

Sep 2021

DinahMoeHum

(21,768 posts)

2. "'Sincerity' does not justify putting others at risk."

Reply to CousinIT (Original post)

Tue Sep 14, 2021, 09:25 AM

Sep 2021

That goes double with regard to children, AFAIC.

Deminpenn

(15,265 posts)

3. As that assistant football coach at Navy

Reply to CousinIT (Original post)

Tue Sep 14, 2021, 09:30 AM

Sep 2021

just discovered when his religious exemption was denied and he was fired.

LiveToLurk

(286 posts)

4. Actually I do bring God into it when I speak to these "Christians":

Reply to CousinIT (Original post)

Tue Sep 14, 2021, 09:33 AM

Sep 2021

Who do they think brought us the scientists, the technology, everything good we have now? They usually shut up and delete their comments.

SamKnause

(13,082 posts)

5. Please do not bring your imaginary friend into it.

Reply to CousinIT (Original post)

Tue Sep 14, 2021, 10:18 AM

Sep 2021

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)

7. So GOD is cool

Reply to CousinIT (Original post)

Tue Sep 14, 2021, 10:29 AM

Sep 2021

with using you to murder someone else’s ten year old, or grandpa?

Flipping dumb bio-weapons at the will.

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)

8. As the story goes, the devil took Jesus to the top of the temple and invited him to jump...

Reply to CousinIT (Original post)

Tue Sep 14, 2021, 11:47 AM

Sep 2021

saying God would send angels to save him. Jesus said you shouldn't test God.

If these Christians really believed in the teachings of Christ they would not be playing this game.

If the son of god won't jump from a building, why would a mere mortal sinner think it is okay to test god by flaunting the risk of a virus, or handling rattlers, or relying only on prayer to heal.

Mr Chang knows good and well that what is supported by theology doesn't stop the various flavors of Christianity from having their own cherry picking of the Bible.

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