Religious Reasons

Q: What is a religious exemption?

A religious exemption is for anyone who has a sincere religious conflict with vaccination. A religious objection may be expressly implied by religious denomination or it may be based on an individual's own moral/spiritual conscience to live God's Word.

Q: Who can get a religious exemption from vaccination?

48 States and the military allow religious exemptions from vaccination.  West Virginia and Mississippi are the only 2 states that do not recognize a persons religious rights regarding vaccination.

Q: What constitutes a religious conflict with vaccination?

Vaccines are made with toxic chemicals that are injected into the bloodstream by vaccination.  All vaccines are made with foreign proteins (viruses and bacteria), and some vaccines are made with genetically engineered viral and bacterial materials.

A conflict arises if you believe that man is made in God's image and the injection of toxic chemicals and foreign proteins into the bloodstream is a violation of God's directive to keep the body/temple holy and free from impurities.

A conflict arises if you accept God's warning not to mix the blood of  man with the blood of animals.  A number of vaccines are produced in animal tissues, many list calf serum protein, or fetal bovine serum in their ingredients.

A conflict arises if your religious convictions are predicated on the belief that all life is sacred.  God's commandment "Thou Shall Not Kill" applies to the practice of abortion (and in some recognized religions, the slaughter of animals).  Some vaccines are produced in human aborted fetal cells.

Q: What specific scriptural teachings form the basis for religious objection to the practice of vaccination?

The New Testament epistles tell us that Christians should think of  life as a gift of God and the body as a marvelous work of divine creation to be reverenced as a temple of God

• I Corinthians 3:16 - Don't you know that you are God's temple and that God's spirit lives in you?

• I Corinthians 6:19-20 - Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?  You are not your own, you were bought at a price.  Therefore honor God with your body.

• We are to keep the body/temple holy and clean from blemish, scripture  warns against defiling the body:

• I Corinthians 3:17 - If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him, for God's  temple is sacred and you are that temple.

• Proverbs 6:16-17 - There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him.
  haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood.

• Leviticus 17:11 - For the life of every creature is in the blood.

• Matthew 9:35 - Jesus went about preaching the good news of the kingdom healing every disease and sickness.

• Psalm 103 - Praise the Lord, O my soul, who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases.

• Proverbs 14:12 and 16:25 - There is a way that seems right to man, but in the end it leads to death.

• I Corinthians 3:19 - For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight.