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  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 vac...