image I won’t vaccinate my children, it’s against my religion. I refuse to put chemical, man-made garbage into their bodies. They’re perfectly healthy.
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Do you eat turkey on Thanksgiving? Hard to get more chemicals in one place than in an American frozen Thanksgiving turkey unless you chug Draino right out of the bottle.
Most food in America is full of horrible unhealthy chemicals, but those turkeys beat it all. What do you fead your kids?
Heh, then you will watch them wither.
That should be something, shouldn't it? Watching your healthy little dears shrivel up, barely able to move...all because of you.
I don't care how harsh this is-your kids are most likely garbage anyway, simply by being yours. When they die of easily preventable diseases, the rest of the world will shrug it off & call you every vile name we can think of, which is a lot.
Your children are too young to make the conscious choice to risk their lives because of your religious beliefs. Vaccinate a child, save a child.
And the distinction between man-made chemicals and natural chemicals is only that we know the content and the purity of the man-made ones. The natural ones occur in mixed combinations at unregulated levels. After all, "natural" materials include such things as arsenic (an element) and strychnine (a very toxic plant alkaloid).
Since forever people have been treating illnesses with methods which have horrible side effects in some people, or don't work all that well for most, or don't work at all beyond a placebo effect, or even occasionally things where the "cure" was genuinely worse than the disease most of the time. Things are still far from perfect, but they've improved over time.
"It's nature, and full of herbs!" But belladonna is an herb, and arsenic is natural...
Of course they're healthy. We want to keep them that way, hence all the engineering. You want to hope and pray they stay that way while not doing anything about it. Historically, that's been a pretty lousy trade-off.
Shepard Solus
Better stop eating literally everything , then, because none of it is untouched by man. No livestock or crop. Same goes for most water sources, too. A week as a breatharian and your kids won't be healthy anymore.
And if your religion is an active threat to the public then your religion is legally illegitimate.
You put man-made chemicals into their bodies when you breast-feed, or give them formula (as it's in the water and in your body).
Vaccinations aim at KEEPING them healthy.
What does your religion say about computer games and the Internet?
I would support making vaccinations mandatory for all save those with a deficient immune system. I'd be ok with letting you do this if we still had high enough numbers of vaccinated people but we don't. We're seeing the return of devastating diseases and honestly, the "against your reigion" excuse no longer works for me.
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So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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