Anti-Science For GOP Jesus: A new scientific study shows Christian Nationalists are much more likely to reject the new COVID vaccine.
Sojourners reports:
As a COVID-19 vaccine gets closer to a public rollout, public health experts and policymakers in the United States are likely to encounter a big cultural barrier: Christian nationalism.
Americans who embrace Christian nationalism will be much more likely to abstain from a coronavirus vaccine, according to a study published Monday by sociologists Andrew L. Whitehead and Samuel L. Perry.
The study, “How Culture Wars Delay Herd Immunity: Christian Nationalism and Anti-vaccine Attitudes,” explains that those identified as Christian Nationalists are “more likely to hold beliefs such as the following: ‘Vaccines cause autism,’ ‘Doctors and drug companies are not honest about the risks of vaccines,’ ‘People have the right to decide whether or not to vaccinate their kids,’ ‘Kids are given too many vaccines,’ and ‘Vaccines do not help protect children from dangerous diseases.’”
One of the study’s authors, Andrew Whitehead, co-director of the Association of Religion Data Archives and professor of sociology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, notes:
Christian nationalism is consistently one of the strongest predictors of anti-vaccine attitudes.
For some I supose placing their physical health and well being in the hands of a mythical god makes all the sense in world when you actually believe that faith is medicine and therefore vaccines are unneccessary.
Good luck with that.
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