Do religious beliefs influence your decision not to vaccinate? - Page 2

[Yulia_R]

Originally Posted by grandmaofthree

Do religious beliefs influence your decision not to vaccinate?

Not at all, our family is not religious.

Out first child did receive 9 vaccines total (3 sets of three) before I started my research on the subject. Now when I know better, I regret it deeply.

Our second child is not vaccinated.

Never again for our family.

[Yulia_R]

Originally Posted by ShadowMoon

Vaccination is a health and safety concern for me.

Same here.

[Electra375]

Yes, religious views have influnced my decision. Confirmed it rather. The science was first.

NO specific religion/ denomination.

I am a Christian and attend a non-denominational evangelical church.

There is a great website or was that outlines the Biblical reasons why one should think twice about vaxes, but also other things. It was called Poison Cure. It might still be around.

[PaigeC]

Originally Posted by bluedaisy

I voted yes - I'm a Christian and I believe God created us with an intricate immune system that we will never fully understand. i think the way we were created to fight off disease is sufficient. i think we are created as holistic beings and all our systems are intertwined - you can't target one part of the body and think the whole will not be affected. this is also why i eat natural foods (what God intended for us to eat and not manmade creations) and avoid medicine as much as possible.

ETA -this is not the only reason I don't vax but it does affect my decision

Ditto. It isn't as much that my religion makes me against vaccines but that I trust in God's wisdom in making the world and our bodies in balance. I have many philosophical concerns with vax but the first time I heard about vit K - not a vaccine but I remember thinking "what's up with that? God messed up and forgot vitamin K in ALL NEWBORNS???" Just doesn't ring true. God has a reason we just don't understand.

Anyways I voted yes because it is PART of my decision making.

[Yulia_R]

Originally Posted by PaigeC

Ditto. It isn't as much that my religion makes me against vaccines but that I trust in God's wisdom in making the world and our bodies in balance. I have many philosophical concerns with vax but the first time I heard about vit K - not a vaccine but I remember thinking "what's up with that? God messed up and forgot vitamin K in ALL NEWBORNS???" Just doesn't ring true. God has a reason we just don't understand.

Anyways I voted yes because it is PART of my decision making.

I don't know about god messing up (I always want to ask religious people if they truly believe that dinosaurs were living six thousands years ago LOL), but anyone who is familiar with natural selection (Darwin) will see that there no way in h*** we would have survived as a specie if our babies were lacking a giant dose of some vitamin which would have been important for their survival. There are NO miracles and NO sentiments in nature, NONE! We would have been dead LONG before modern medicine could inject our infants with those “crucial for their survival” goodies LOL.