Fundamentalism moves towards making vaccinations against their religion

Don't sleep on this.

The senior vice president of communications for the National Religious Broadcasters was FIRED Friday, August 27th, 2021, for saying people should get vaccinated against COVID-19.

FIRED.

FOR SAYING VACCINATION IS GOOD.

We've seen this before. This is part of how you make something a religious tenant: purge just enough people that everyone gets the message. Most people will end up going along, because God Said, Apparently, and that's good enough for them.

But that doesn't change that they're making disease protection against their religion. I mean, sure, we've seen this plenty of times before in various religions in the past, but... it's not the kind of thing you expect to see more of in this day and age.

They haven't succeeded yet - and it may not work - but right now, that's where it's heading.

this is an inflection point, and not just on the plague

What I didn't say last night - but should've - is that this is how they make things culturally multigenerational, and there are enough of them to wreck public health for generations, particularly if it spreads to other vaccines.

If they decide that's all worth it, if the "my country or no country" philosophy they already have extends completely to plagues killing them, if mass destruction is a fair price to pay for pursuing the "my country or no country" ethos - then that really is how you get the Taliban, or ISIS, or any similar group.

"It's ours, or there's nothing left to have."

Notice how many of them were side-eye admiring the Taliban last week, as the politics were shifting? I did.

This is an inflection point. Right now.