Belief and Vaccines: Why is an almost religious reverence for vaccines so widespread?

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[–]StillLessons 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Though people associate the word "religion" with "belief in God", the past two years have shown us that this definition of the word is too narrow to capture what religion is really about. As this title says, religion is about belief. It is about belief regarding subjects we don't understand.

With this perspective on religion, we see that the US, Canada, Australia, NZ and western Europe are deeply religious people. The dominant religion is $cience, by a long shot. Not 1 in 20 people who are treated by the medical profession has a remote clue of the mechanism, purpose, or effectiveness of the given treatment. They take the medicine because they trust the doctor prescribing it. How is this different from the "treatments" the priests offered in the middle ages? Substitute doctors for priests and the dynamic matches perfectly.

The difference is that $cience evolved from science. Science (a process of thought requiring strict and repeatable reasoning to defend a statement of conclusion) allowed tremendous insight for hundreds of years regarding natural processes (including in medicine) we had not previously understood.

Unfortunately, as happens with human nature, science was captured and deemed profitable by the powerful, and $cience was born.

The modern medical and climate change communities are entirely captured by $cience. Science has long since been relegated to the margins. But the priests of $cience are brilliant at maintaining the appearance of the original practitioners of science. The lay people thus continue to believe.

Covid has demonstrated to us the ultimate expression of that belief. Like all religions, as the clergy is challenged, they become increasingly dictatorial and violent in defense of the "meaning" they defend.

Millions of people are dying for this.

[–]SaidOverRed 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

That's what happens to those who don't believe in God. They make their own.

[–]Canbot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Because people are sheep and the pharma companies spent billions brainwashing them.

[–]chottohen 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When convenient a hobgoblin like CV can be created and a savior, in this case a so-called vaccine, sometimes arises as a way of further controlling people. Statistics show that the vax does no good at all unless your goal is to kill off lots people of people who put blind faith in some gene-altering soup. Use mass media to scare people enough and most will do the bidding of their overlords. The mass of people today are little different from Mayan peasants who were told by the priest class that an eclipse was coming. Obey and do not question authority—same as it ever was. If you see and understand the methods of control, you are obligated to fight back.

[–]doodles 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

everything we do is the result of a belief system.

children are indoctrinated with whatever their parents teach them.

lgbt is a belief system.

racism is a belief system.

etc.

[–]Sim 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

School is the church of the modern society. See Ivan Illich and John Taylor Gatto.

The gods are the assigned authorities. In the inverse totalitarian system the power is held mainly by the large corporations, and the Pharma complex is perhaps the most powerful one, and the one that depends the most on faith. After all, as they have grown in power, public health has plummeted, and when their dealers, MDs, are on a strike or away for a training mortality goes down. So they advertise the most, and this gives them power over media.

And after vaccines became a product that is liability free and can be mandated for entire populations, they became the holy grail for big pharma.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Because being opposed to it is taboo. Literally the only reason you're supposed to oppose it is because you're a crazy pants conspiracy theorist if you don't. Why can't conspiracy theories be right? Because if you believe in conspiracy theories you're crazy.