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Sample form to apply for religious exemption from covid vax
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Home Coronavirus (COVID-19) You asked, we answered: Do the COVID-19 vaccines contain aborted fetal cells?
The argument presented in this letter is summarized below.
"As a practicing Catholic, I think the moral balance of indirectly benefitting from an abortion that occurred 50 years ago in order to take a vaccine that will prevent further death in the community is a no-brainer – especially considering that so many of the over 620,000 American deaths have occurred in the most vulnerable and marginalized in our society. We need to focus on saving lives right now. We need to care for our neighbors."
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Yep. Pretty well sums up the Catholic church too.
We have religious exemption forms (most large companies should).
I think they may make liars out of a lot of Christians. Too many are not anti-vacvination but just don't want the covid vaccination so they claim it is for religious reasons (essentially taking God's name in vain).
I've seen a few people who were fine with the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine which were produced using fetal cell lines yet mistakenly belueve the mRNA vaccines were produced using fetal cell lines. But religious exemptions do not include exemptions for being musinformed.
At the end of the day it is up to the employer. They can say testing the rejectors us contrary to their business mission or an undue hardship and let them go anyway.
I think they may make liars out of a lot of Christians. Too many are not anti-vacvination but just don't want the covid vaccination so they claim it is for religious reasons (essentially taking God's name in vain).
I've seen a few people who were fine with the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine which were produced using fetal cell lines yet mistakenly belueve the mRNA vaccines were produced using fetal cell lines. But religious exemptions do not include exemptions for being musinformed.
At the end of the day it is up to the employer. They can say testing the rejectors us contrary to their business mission or an undue hardship and let them go anyway.
I have to wonder why there was/ is not a moral outcry against the measles, mumps and rubella (mmr) vaccine or the rabies vaccine, which unlike the covid vaccines actually used a fetal cell line in producing the vacvine (the pharmaceutical companies used a fetal cell line to test the covid vaccine for proof of concept).
But it has been estimated that the mmr and rabies vaccines have saved over 30,000,000 lives.
This is not the first time God has worked good out of the evil men do.
But it has been estimated that the mmr and rabies vaccines have saved over 30,000,000 lives.
This is not the first time God has worked good out of the evil men do.
Reformed1689
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No that is not true. I am fine with MMR, Flu, etc. However, I can, in good conscience, claim religious exemption from Covid Vaccine because I believe we are to take care of our bodies and I do not believe there is enough information about the long-term effects of the vaccine (because it has not been available long-term) to put the substance in my body and honor the biblical mandate to take care of myself so I can serve Christ.
More Americans died in the U.S. with Covid than in all our wars since the Civil War. The data clearly demonstrates that countries having higher vaccination rates have less Covid deaths. No, the vaccines are not perfect. There have been a very few extreme reactions to them, almost exclusively the J&J vax. The Pfizer vaccine is now completely FDA certified just like the vaccines for measles, the mumps, smallpox, and polio were. Tell me what your REAL reason is for not being vaccinated and thereby endangering your life and people you come into contact with. TRUMP???
Reformed1689
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First, I don't believe the death numbers. Second, Covid has a HUGE survival rate so don't give me the hyperbole and talk about endangering my life and people I come into contact with that won't work with me because it is not true.
Exactly.
Religious exemptions are granted for legitimate reasons, but simply because somebody rejects science is not a religious reason.
A Christian who will take or give their child the mmr vacvine, a flu shot, a pneumonia shot, a chickenpox shot, a rabies shot if needed, a tetanus shot, a shingles vaccination, a rotavirus short or a whooping cough inoculation yet claim religious exemption for a covid vaccine is essentially taking God's name in vain and making a mockery of our faith.
Reformed1689
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False. I gave you a legitimate reason. You have no right to call that a mockery of our faith.
im evil you mock our faith and we are all fools.
What are you talking about????
I am saying if a Christian takes vaccinations until it comes to the covid vaccinations then that is perfectly fine. But to claim religious exemption is to mock our faith and I believe to use God's name in vain. Their objection is not on religious grounds but on the idea the science behind the vaccine is wrong. I have a friend at work in this situation. He believes the vaccine is too risky but wants to claim religious exemption. This is just wrong.
It is fine for Christians to reject the vaccine. But it is unChristian for them to do so on religious grounds simply because they reject the science behind that one vaccine. When they do so they treat as common that which is holy.
Reformed1689
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Already shown how this is false and is inflammatory trolling at this point. Stop with the falsehoods and bearing false witness. You know, the L word.
with ...
due ...
it makes a difference, right?
meanwhile ... 6% of the claimed CV deaths were actually DUE to CV. CDC Sept '20
Please show a link for your assertion.
"In this context, there are some distinct challenges because many of the people who are filing religious exemption requests have never refused vaccines before. This is the only vaccine they object to, and, the nature of their objection isn't truly religious. It's more of a personal belief exemption that they are trying to shoehorn into the religious exemption channel,”....."It does require that you articulate an argument that is religious in nature and not more generally about your personal beliefs"
In other words, a person who hs gotten vaccinations in the past but just does not believe the covid vaccines work, are safe, or think they cause damage to the body has no grounds for religious exemption. Religious exemption excludes personal views about the individual vaccine.
Another thing many may not realize is co.psnies do not have to entertain religious exemptions. There is a portion that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says gives the right to an employer to deny a religious exemption for what's called "undue hardship."
COVID religious exemption issues, explained | abc10.com
So all of these people who are in effect trying to call their personal opinion about a vaccine "theological" to pigeon hole it into a religious exemption are most likely making it where people who have legitimate religious exemptions cannot get them.
What is worse is if they are Christians they are poor witnesses of Christ to the World.
In other words, a person who hs gotten vaccinations in the past but just does not believe the covid vaccines work, are safe, or think they cause damage to the body has no grounds for religious exemption. Religious exemption excludes personal views about the individual vaccine.
Another thing many may not realize is co.psnies do not have to entertain religious exemptions. There is a portion that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says gives the right to an employer to deny a religious exemption for what's called "undue hardship."
COVID religious exemption issues, explained | abc10.com
So all of these people who are in effect trying to call their personal opinion about a vaccine "theological" to pigeon hole it into a religious exemption are most likely making it where people who have legitimate religious exemptions cannot get them.
What is worse is if they are Christians they are poor witnesses of Christ to the World.
dictionary.
dying WITH Covid19 is not dying DUE to Covid19.
the 6% number is well documented.
a simple duck duck go search produced this
https://www.swfinstitute.org/news/8...f-us-covid-19-deaths-include-comorbid-factors
quite a bold statement, JonC.
do you also know the heart of another man?
pretty sure there's another JC who can know this ... my guess is, He's not you, good sir.
this nation was founded on religious freedom. Religiously, there are those who consider that freedom the very foundation of our civilization. Again, bad law ...
I'll be declaring my religious exemption to this mandate at the right time. I was given revelation on this entire experience in March '20. You feel free to tell me I was delusional and am being a "bad Christian" for filing this declaration in accordance with Caesar's law.
Before you start crowing too loudly, perhaps you should consider HOW Jacob received his blessing. I don't know Jacob's heart, but I know the method ... the fruit. His and his mother's.
I'm not talking about a person's heart. I'm talking about their witness.
I have seen Christians who are mot opposed to vaccinations from a religious basis trying to claim religious exemption from the covid vaccinations.
This has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with their rejection of "accepted" science and a fear on this one vaccine.
IMHO it is the same as taking God's name in vain or using religion for personal opinions. Thus comes off as lying.
That said, I am absolutely not opposed to Christiabs declining the vaccination because they don't belueve it works, believe it is unhealthy, etc. But to call that a religious belief is unChristian behavior and the World sees this.
I knew a young man who drowned in a fairly shallow creek because he was trapped in his car. Had he not been wearing a seatbelt he may have survived. So I might be opposed to seat belts. BUT saying I should be exempted because wearing seat belts is against my religion would be wrong.
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