90% of Atheists Have Been Vaccinated
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I think a better explanation for the correlation is that those who derive their identity from the white evangelical subculture feel that their own church leadership don't best represent what it means to be a part of that group. I assume thought leaders like Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump hold more legitimacy in certain respects with evangelicals than explicitly religious leaders do. I don't think labels like "evangelical", "white", and "conservative" properly capture this group; it's more of a synthesis of these individual identities that have mobilized into a greater reactionary movement.
[1] https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-health-religion-coronav...
Of course, it's not like there's any sort of clean intervention you can do to just make somebody religious or not and see what happens. So it's not clear to me what causality would even really mean here.
Most people who are Mormons live in cultures where more people are against vaccination. Most people who are atheists live in cultures where most people are pro vaccination.
Man refuses vaccine, listening to the wisdom imparted in his heart through his relationship with God. Man thanks God for saving him from certain death caused by vaccine. End of story.
Maybe a better choice of term could be discovered. Under the circumstances.
That said, this information is meaningless unless you control for the physical distribution of the religions across areas and compare that with the actual vaccination rates. Does religion really matter or is it just the religions relationship with it's location?
Similarly, as this poll shows, there is a significant difference in the behavior of white and black Evangelicals. It's not as formalized as the AME, but people still self-segregate by race, and that affects what they believe and how they interact.
- Most Southern Baptists once rejected racial integration and accepted white supremacy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Baptist_Convention#Fo...
- Nation of Islam, "open to people of color but not whites" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_Islam
- Racist restrictions on Black people in the LDS Church until 1978 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people_and_Mormon_priest...
In this case, "white evangelical" refers to something more like this description from the magazine "The Christian Century" (representing US mainline Protestantism) at https://www.christiancentury.org/article/critical-essay/amer... :
> Over the course of the 20th century, the evangelical coalition entwined theology, whiteness, and conservative politics. The histories we tell about that movement demand attention to all three aspects. By using theological markers to define evangelicalism, we miss the ways cultural and political forces have shaped the movement. To identify as evangelical in the early 21st century signals commitments to gun rights, the abolition of legal abortion, and low taxes. It’s next to impossible to understand these commitments through the prism of theology alone. But when we understand evangelical as an identity forged in the contexts of Jim Crow segregation, a struggle against second-wave feminism, and fears of a tyrannical federal government, the origin of these commitments becomes clearer.
That well-written piece gives other examples of how "The racial segregation of American Protestantism facilitated deeper commingling of racist beliefs with evangelical religion", if you want to gain some clues.
I'll add another quote, to allay the "not all evangelicals" crowd:
> By the final decades of the 20th century, a commitment to right-wing political movements and white racial identity offered the most distinctive marks of evangelicalism. This characterization—like any characterization—leaves some people out. There were liberal evangelicals like Jim Wallis and Ron Sider. There were black evangelicals, particularly in the South, who refuse to cede the movement entirely to white believers. Perhaps most notably, American evangelicalism acquired a distinctly international following in the late 20th century, as millions of Christians from Latin America, East Asia, and Africa have poured into American churches.
Just look at education levels for the various religious/non-religious groups: Christians and Jewish people are the most educated groups (more than all non-affiliated even) worldwide. Look at individual countries and these levels are completely switched around. See: https://www.pewforum.org/interactives/educational-attainment...
Alternatively: God calls His own home first?
But I think many more Americans may be dying of metabolic syndrome, caused in the US (among others) mostly by sugar delivered without accompanying fiber, than of COVID-19. It is hard to track, because death ultimately traceable to liver dysfunction shows up ascribed to so many other illnesses.
I have no data on how well atheists are represented in the metabolic syndrome numbers.
It seems ironic now that placebo, the canonically inactive substance, is usually described as "sugar pills".
As for Catholics, even the pope / the vatican is pushing for vaccination: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2021-08/pope-francis...
In most other countries they would be covered by national health service, instead.
Why are conclusions regarding religious affiliation spoken in the same sentence as hostile and derogatory commentary ?
Everyone reading this - check your weaponized language at the door !
Any spammer worth their salt would not be manually copying text, they would be automatically scraping sites.
show_wpcp_message('You are not allowed to copy content or view source');
return false;
Umm, I'm not so sure about that last part.They do seem worried that someone is going to steal their IPz, though. The double exclamation points means they take it seriously:
var image_save_msg = 'You are not allowed to save images!';
var no_menu_msg = 'Context Menu disabled!';
var smessage = "Content is protected !!";
Again, not so sure about that last part.Enabling "reader mode" in Firefox did the trick.
F12 => document.designMode = "on" worked aswell