{"id":3192,"date":"2012-08-21T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rachelmariestone\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2012-08-21T06:00:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T10:00:38","slug":"most-ungodly-post-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rachelmariestone\/2012\/08\/21\/most-ungodly-post-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Ungodly Post Yet!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_3193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3193\" style=\"width: 692px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/484\/2012\/08\/tar_and_feather.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3193\" title=\"tar_and_feather\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/484\/2012\/08\/tar_and_feather.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"458\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">and that was just for taxing liquor!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>I have a new post up at Her.meneutics, the <em>Christianity Today <\/em>women\u2019s blog (apparently its most ungodly post yet!) called <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/women\/2012\/08\/love-your-neighbor-get-your-va.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cLove Your Neighbor. Get Your Vaccines.\u201d<\/a>And that\u2019s pretty much the point: getting vaccinated is not just about keeping yourself (&amp; your kids) safe. It\u2019s about keeping everybody safe.<\/p>\n<p>The thing about writing a post praising vaccines is that most of us who like vaccines, or, at least, regard them as something we all gotta do, are pretty quiet about it, while those who think vaccines are from Satan loudly proclaim it.<\/p>\n<p>The other thing about writing a post praising vaccines is that people are going to say things\u00a0 like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cYou\u2019ve obviously drank the Kool-Aid from the pharmaceutical industry shills.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cYour [sic] either lying or haven\u2019t researched this properly.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cVaccines have dead babies in them!!!\u201d\u00a0 (I\u2019m paraphrasing.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But then, there are other comments like this:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a problem cause because the success of modern medicine.<strong> If millions of people were dying every year from the flu, then no one would be worrying about the fact that some might die from the vaccine.<\/strong> That is no to say we shouldn\u2019t worry at all about it. It is just to say that many people are worried about one part of the problem and ignoring the larger effect of their personal choice\u2013as is the problem with most issues like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Thank you, <a href=\"http:\/\/bookwi.se\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Adam.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this:<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWhat if the issue was seat belt use instead of vaccines? There are a tiny, tiny number of deaths that occur BECAUSE of wearing a seat belt. But seat belts have saved untold millions of lives in crashes.<\/p>\n<p>Should we then protest against seat belt laws, and counsel young parents to not put their baby in a car seat? Should we share our stories of seat belt-related injuries in order to reveal how terrible they truly are?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks, Leah!)<\/p>\n<p>Plus? Last night I went to eat an ice-cream sandwich with Mrs. S. (who was an Army RN in WWII) and we talked about polio. She remembers people on Long Island getting polio. All I\u2019m saying is that: it might be worth lengthening our memories, and considering whether the luxury of debating vaccine safety is <em>just that:<\/em> a luxury afforded us by vaccine\u2019s efficacy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/484\/2012\/08\/edieandrachel.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3194\" title=\"edieandrachel\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/484\/2012\/08\/edieandrachel-e1345515041496.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"388\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know if PBS counts as \u201clamestream media\u201d (which, according to one commenter, is where I must get all my information!) but these two documentaries\u2013one on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/films\/influenza\/player\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">influenza epidemic of 1918<\/a> and one on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/xfve6p_american-experience-the-polio-crusade_shortfilms\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">search for a polio vaccine<\/a>\u2013are very worth your time. It might just be me, but I find that looking at history often clarifies present questions.<\/p>\n<p>One final thing. A major element in my thinking behind the vaccine post was the question of loving one\u2019s neighbor, which is pretty central to the Christian scriptures (Jesus kinda said so) and of broadening care and concern beyond the boundaries of the nuclear family. This is a place where we could learn from other cultures, from ones in parts of the world where diseases now eradicated in the US are still rampant. We could learn the truth that \u201cthere is no me without you.\u201d We could learn that \u201cI am because we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(If you\u2019re still interested in reading the article, you can find it <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/women\/2012\/08\/love-your-neighbor-get-your-va.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new post up at Her.meneutics, the Christianity Today women\u2019s blog (apparently its most ungodly post yet!) called \u201cLove Your Neighbor. Get Your Vaccines.\u201dAnd that\u2019s pretty much the point: getting vaccinated is not just about keeping yourself (&amp; your kids) safe. It\u2019s about keeping everybody safe. 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