kibitzer wrote:
Marietta Tar Heel wrote:
I'm all for religious freedom, but I wish these people actually used their brains.
Not to be catty, but if they "actually used their brains" they might not be evangelical Christians.
Faith is *defined* as "belief in things not seen"--whether seen with the eyes, or through evidence and reasoning.
Their religious faith, which for most if not all evangelicals is the organizing principle of their life, is more non-reason than anti-reason: not so much "against" as "other." But to the extent that evidence and appeals to reason--to their brain--might contradict their belief, evangelicals must dismiss them.
To be fair, a majority of evangelicals have or intend to be vaccinated even while they stand out as a group.
Interesting also that Catholics lean "vaxer", presumably following on the clear leadership position favoring vaccination in principle while specifically discouraging the fetal derived versions.
https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/FT_21.03.18_VaccineFacts.png?w=640