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“...I have told you that the spirits of darkness are going to inspire their human hosts, in whom they will be dwelling, to find a vaccine that will drive all inclination toward spirituality out of people’s souls when they are still very young, and this will happen in a roundabout way through the living body. Today, bodies are vaccinated against one thing and another; in future, children will be vaccinated with a substance which it will certainly be possible to produce, and this will make them immune, so that they do not develop foolish inclinations connected with spiritual life – ‘foolish’ here, of course, in the eyes of materialists."

- R. Steiner, 27 October 1917

Safe and EFFECTIVE!

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That's an effective and viral message because it plays on the fears of people who have spiritual inclinations. Of course in reality, it's remarkably evil in its effects. How many people have died or been disfigured as a result of failure to vaccinate thanks to this claptrap? Spirits of darkness indeed, the greatest of which have a reputation for clothing themselves in light.

He wrote a lot, and on many different topics. If we have to blacklist and unperson writers for any single violation of modern belief, might as well go ahead and toss everything written before 1960 into the fire.

Don't want to blacklist or unperson him. I just think he's wrong on that count, and in a particularly mischievious way.

Sounds like Scientology

No, it's not. Having grown up in it, this is a very general gist: Being out ethics, connected with an SP, and probably a few other situation will manifest itself as injury. There isn't really a concept of "sin", just what's best for survival, and the aforementioned actions simply have consequences which endanger yourself and others.

Let's put it this way, yes, people try to audit out cancer and there is an antivax cohort (this is more about external control, distrust of authority outside of Scientology, causing autism, your usual suspects), but it's not necessarily against modern medicine in most ways (obviously a carve out for all things psychiatric). Once that cancer gets into oh shit territory, they are on chemo, and often times too late, but that's a different discussion.

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