What is Possessing Religious Leaders to Push Vaccines and Deny Exemptions?

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Church and State have teamed up to become a dangerous new Goliath.

It’s time to access our inner David.

The Assault on Religious Exemptions

Most states were happy to provide religious exemptions… until people started using them. Then they became a threat to mandates… I mean, public health.

Here’s Trevor Noah, who calls religious exemptions a “hot new trend”, speaking uncharacteristically about the threat of religious tolerance.

The flipside of being that tolerant is that people can take advantage of the system.

- Trevor Noah

For those keeping track, we are being asked to:

• Trust the science… that has “changed” to demonstrated that all of its original assertions were wrong.

• Trust the experts… who made oppressive policies based on the “science” they parroted that turned out to be wrong.

• Be suspect of religious citizens. Because they may be disingenuous.

This is a Jedi mind trick that relies on our faith in a broken system. We need to break the spell.

The idea of U.S. citizens having to prove to the government and other institutions that our religious beliefs are genuine would be hilarious if it wasn’t actually happening. When our institutions seek to override the U.S. Constitution and remove our inalienable rights, the burden of proof is not on us. It’s on them.

So, let’s flip the script and ask ourselves: are their assertions about the need to remove religious exemptions because of public health genuine? Or has our tolerance of government intervention emboldened THEM to take advantage of the system?

Stopping the Domino Effect

Over the last several years, many states sought to strip citizens of their religious rights by introducing, and in some cases enacting, legislation to remove or restrict religious exemptions (REs) for mandatory vaccinations. California, New York, Connecticut and Maine have succeeded in eliminating REs (joining Mississippi and West Virginia), forcing thousands of children out of the school system. Many of these families relocated, becoming religious refugees in their own country

Currently, 44 states honor religious exemptions for people who have religious reasons for refusing vaccines and 15 states grant philosophical exemptions. But the exemption landscape is changing rapidly and often in the dark.

https://www.ncsl.org/health/states-with-religious-and-philosophical-exemptions-from-school-immunization-requirements

Legislation aimed at restricting exemptions is heavily influenced by outdated or inaccurate claims related to public health and/or vaccine safety and much of it may well be written by pharmaceutical companies. These bills wait for their moment - generally some kind of an outbreak - and then pounce (with the help of the mainstream propaganda cartel). In California, it was a 2015 Disney measles outbreak that prompted the removal of REs. Senator Richard Pan wasn’t interested in learning critical details about patient zero or the prevalence of vaccine strains among suspected cases.

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jcm.01879-16

Instead he asserted that the outbreaks were due to pockets of unvaccinated, said religious exemptions threatened public health and promised that medical exemptions would remain for those who needed them.

And then he introduced SB276… to effectively remove medical exemptions.

Here is Pan in 2015, reassuring California State Assembly members that robust medical exemptions, and the doctor-patient relationship, would be protected under SB 277. And here he is going back on his word to go after medical exemptions in 2019.

Religious Freedom Requires Vigilance

When it comes to preserving religious exemptions and all of our individual freedoms, paying attention is critical.

New Jerseyans witnessed all of the antics that resulted in the removal of religious exemptions in California, Maine and New York and they had already been reaching out to their legislators. By the time S2173 started to move, parents had mobilized. They showed up by the thousands to defend their parental and religious rights, defeating New Jersey’s S2173 in January 2020 in an epic week-long effort now referred to as the Battle of Trenton 2.0.

But these victories are short and temporary. In New Jersey, a new bill awaits the right moment to remove religious exemptions, thanks largely to Assemblyman Herb Conaway and Senator Joe Vitale, who chair their respective health committees.

Meet the Doctor Behind NJ Vaccine Mandates

This isn’t by accident. The pharmaceutical industry spends hard to make sure there’s a Herb Conaway in every state. You can find out who many of these people are simply by linking draconian bills back to their sponsors. And if you listen closely, many of these legislators reveal their true intentions.

“In the end, the only thing government must balance is what’s best for the overall public health, and that means unambiguously supporting vaccinations and making clear that any exemptions must be limited.” - Assemblyman Herb Conaway

Vaccines as a Leap of Faith

But as legislators increasingly earn the distrust of constituents by imposing draconian mandates that are unsupported by science, more people are asking questions, finding God and rediscovering their individual rights. In other words, the growing demand for religious exemptions is reflective of a forced evolution.

According to a Public Religious Research Institute report, public support for religion based vaccine refusals is on the rise.

A majority of Americans (56%) favor allowing individuals who would otherwise be required to receive a COVID-19 vaccine to refuse if doing so violates their religious beliefs, compared to 42% who are opposed. The percentage of Americans favoring such religiously based refusals has increased by six percentage points since early fall 2020, when Americans were evenly divided on this question (48% favor vs. 51% oppose).

COVID-shot mandates - which threatened to keep people from entering public spaces, attending college and sporting events, traveling and even keeping their jobs - accelerated a growth curve around informed consent.

https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/20211108/fed-workers-seek-religious-exemptions-for-vax-deadline

But rather than addressing the legitimate concerns of the public, the medical industrial complex opted to recruit more “trusted messengers”. And they zeroed in on “faith actors”.

https://www.state.gov/the-impactful-role-of-faith-actors-in-the-covid-19-pandemic/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12433532/

https://www.salon.com/2021/04/26/the-role-of-religious-leaders-in-combatting-vaccine-hesitancy/

Faith leaders are now stepping out of their lanes to take vocal positions on vaccines based on outdated and disproven talking points from a script that was written just for them. (This is why you’re hearing that vaccinating is “an act of love.”) Sadly, many have become the unlikely victims of government propaganda and Scientism.

Ryan Cunningham @rycunni

How many pastors refused to sign off on a religious exemption because they said it was for the greater good? Sadly they fell into the government run church narrative.

This has led to unvaccinated people of faith being denied entry into their own churches and synagogues, even as “All are welcome” signs adorn the properties. In the more tragic of ironies, Jews were required to “show their papers” to attend services at their synagogues.

Even today, religious leaders continue to muddy the waters around religious freedom by weighing in on mandates on religious exemptions without being informed themselves. Catholic bishops across the United States have come out with specific rules about vaccination and exemptions in their diocese, but many are addressing the wrong questions. The critical question is not whether religious leaders approve of the use of vaccines, but rather whether people of faith should be free to exercise their rights of conscience as they practice their faith.

The Catholic Bishops of Colorado understand this distinction:

“Being the Catholic Church, we have to respect the rights of conscience, and in the possibility some coercion or force might be used we wanted to reassure individual Catholics that there was a vehicle by which they could request a right, which was given to them by the state,” Bishop Berg said.

Whereas the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Brooklyn use the Vatican’s moral approval of the vaccines as the reason there isn’t an exemption, the Bishops of Colorado state that “the Catholic Church teaches that a person may refuse medical intervention, including vaccination, if his or her conscience leads them to that decision.”

So does Bishop William Byrne of Springfield, Massachusetts:

“It is important for us to recognize and encourage the well-formed consciences of those who both desire the vaccine for themselves and the common good, as well as those who for health concerns or other reasons, may desire not to receive the vaccine,” Bishop Byrne wrote Sept. 14 to clerics of the Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts.

“In charity as priests and deacons, we should help to support the conscience rights of our Catholic faithful on this and all matters. We can do this by attesting to their Sacramental Baptism and the ‘practicing’ of their Catholic faith, as a separate letter or statement, to support their letter or request for religious exemption, but not to compose or sign a letter or form ourselves.”

According to USnews.com:

Within the U.S. Catholic Church, there are divisions – even though Pope Francis has been clear in his support for vaccinations. While some bishops have forbidden their priests from assisting in seeking exemptions, other bishops and priests have provided template letters for people claiming conscientious objections from the vaccines on Catholic grounds…

…While the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has echoed the Vatican teaching, several bishops have assisted people seeking religious exemptions. So has the National Catholic Bioethics Center, a think tank with prominent bishops on its board.

The center’s template letter says individual Catholics may interpret church teachings to conclude that it’s wrong for them to accept any medical product with a connection to abortion.

The Rev. Tad Pacholczyk, ethicist and director of education at the center, noted that the Vatican specifies that vaccines “must be voluntary.”

The church “strongly encourages the safeguarding of conscience rights” he said in a statement, criticizing a “one size fits all” approach to employer mandates.

No More Follow the Leader

Fortunately, as the general public becomes more informed they are rooting into their own religious convictions. They are also unwilling to be sacrificial lambs. People are discovering that COVID shots (as well as others on the CDC-recommended schedule) do not stop infection or transmission and therefore do not play a role in protecting public spaces. They are also learning about the growing list of harms associate with these interventions. These informed citizens are inviting religious leaders to revisit the science, the law and religious principles.

JB @peaceloveGOD2

@BillSpadea @TrentonDiocese The use of vaccines developed using fetal cell lines, which are derived from abortions, raises ethical and moral objections for many Catholics and goes against our religious beliefs. This infringes on our right to freely practice our religion and raises serious questions!

For example, Innovative Parenting NJ and others were quick to correct the Diocese of Trenton when it initially claimed that the state only granted medical exemptions. The diocese has since revised it’s policy memo, acknowledging that “religious affiliated schools or childcare centers shall have the authority to withhold or grant a religious exemption from the required immunization for pupils entering or attending their institutions without challenge by any secular health authority.”

Superintendent of Schools Dr. Vincent de Paul Schmidt has yet to withdraw his initial instruction to school principals in the Trenton Diocese “not to accept new students with religious exemptions.” This is where calls and letters from YOU can make a difference.

(Concerned parents can call:

Dr. Vincent de Paul Schmidt, Superintendent for Catholic Schools: 609-403-7149

Bonnie Milecki, Associate Director for School Development & Operations, 609-403-7149)

Forgive them for they know not what they do.

It’s a sad state of affairs when people cannot even count of their faith leaders to support medical decisions rooted in deeply held religious beliefs. But much of this can be traced back to manipulation tactics that grab people by their values using distorted narratives.

https://www.prri.org/research/prri-ifyc-covid-vaccine-religion-report/

It’s important to remember that our religious leaders are only human and subject to the same fear and manipulation as the general public. They were also specifically targeted and recruited to promote these shots under the guise of public health. They were told the shots would stop transmission. They were told that getting people vaccinated would end the suffering. Government officials appealed to them as “trusted messengers” in their communities.

Quite a bit of time and resources have gone into creating faith-based approaches to improving vaccine uptake. And virtually every alphabet agency and global organization is in on the agenda.

https://www.prri.org/research/prri-ifyc-covid-vaccine-religion-report/

Manufacturing False Idols

In March 2021, Anthony Fauci, Francis Collins and others appealed to an audience of religious leaders at a Vaccine Confidence Event at the Washington National Cathedral.

You can watch the video here.

This is how Reverend Randolf Marshall Hollerith introduced the topic:

Our various traditions as unique and special as they are, have numerous things in common. And none moreso than what is commonly called The Golden Rule. Whether it’s expressed as do unto others as you would have others do unto you or that which you want for yourself, seek for mankind, or love your neighbor as yourself, this ethic of mutual regard and reciprocity is fundamental to the vast majority of faith traditions.

As such, what could be more appropriate than for us to gather today and encourage all people, especially people of faith, to make sure that they get vaccinated – not only to protect themselves from COVID-19, but more importantly, to help protect others from this terrible disease by increasing the levels of immunity within the population and by helping to slow the mutations of this virus which has cause so many even more infectious variants.

As people of faith who are called to love and care for our neighbors, we should be leading the way in this effort. And so we stand together (or sit together) to send a clear message that these vaccines are a great blessing.

Francis Collins, then head of the NIH, referred to his organization as the “National Institute of Hope” and asserted:

The vaccines have in many ways for many people been and answer to prayer. They are safe and effective beyond what we had a right to expect…

The church can play a leading role by education, leading and encouraging. There is nothing to fear here and there’s much to be gained…

We are the hope of this time…

Today all of you are putting hope into action. Hope for an end to the terrible suffering and loss of life from Covid-19. Hope for an end to the economic devastation it has caused. Hope that the vaccine can not only protect you, but also, if we do this together, your family, your friends, your community, your nation, your whole world. This is a love your neighbor opportunity.

Anthony Fauci then offered to clarify “the facts and the fiction” around COVID shots. reassuring religious leaders of their safety and efficacy.

We know they work because they’ve been tested in tens of thousands of individuals - 30,000 people in the Moderna trial, 44,000 people in the Pfizer trial, and 40,000 people in the J&J trial. And there’s more to come…

… I  want you all to realize that this particular process is very well controlled with the highest standard of ethics.

(Apparently, Fauci hadn’t heard about Maddie De Garay or Olivia Teseniar, who both participated in clinical trials for COVID vaccines and continue to suffer with life-altering adverse events.)

But the narrative that was originally sold to faith leaders is quickly falling apart.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/scientific-and-public-health-failure-fauci-admits-covid-shots-didn-t-have-a-chance-of-controlling-the-pandemic/ar-AA17dv2d

“Because these viruses generally do not elicit complete and durable protective immunity by themselves, they have not to date been effectively controlled by licensed or experimental vaccines,” Fauci and his co-authors, David Morens and Jeffrey Taubenberger of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), wrote in the paper.

Reversing the Inquisition

The tables are turning.

We’re the ones who need to see the proof behind their stated convictions. Medical mandates, which experts claim are about public health, have failed to produce a healthier public. In fact, a chronic disease epidemic has grown alongside an expanding vaccination schedule.

We deserve answers, not scapegoat labels.

We are Winning! But we need you!

Thanks to rising chorus voices, change is happening - both through lawsuits and in the court of public opinion. But the war on health and religious freedom is far from over. If you want to use your voice to protect and restore your right to choose, here are some things you can consider doing:

1. Reach out to your local legislators, school districts and boards of health to let them know how you feel. You can read my sample testimony here.

2. Initiate conversations with your school principle and/or your religious leaders.

3. Get involved in your local health freedom community. Your state likely has a number of independent organizations and Children’s Health Defense has a growing number of state and local chapters.

Here are some additional resources that can help you as you reclaim your voice and your choice.

• FOR-US (Freedom of Religion - United Solutions) -https://forunitedsolutions.org/what-is-for-us%3F

• Stand For Health Freedom - https://standforhealthfreedom.com/

• No College Mandates - https://nocollegemandates.com/

• Statement From Medical Professionals & Scientists Supporting Parental Rights and Medical Freedom - https://childrenshealthdefense.org/community-forum/statement-from-medical-professionals-supporting-parental-rights-and-medical-freedom/

• World Council for Health - https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/

We can do this!