The findings have aroused concern even within evangelical circles. The National Association of Evangelicals, which represents more than 45,000 local churches, is part of a new coalition that will host events, work with media outlets and distribute various public messages to build trust among wary evangelicals.
Jeffress believes a majority of his congregation at First Baptist Dallas welcome the vaccines, while some have doubts about their safety or worry they have links to abortion. Jeffress is among numerous religious leaders who say the leading vaccines are acceptable given their remote, indirect links to lines of cells developed from aborted fetuses.
John Elkins, pastor at Sovereign Grace Fellowship in Brazoria, Texas, about 50 miles south of Houston, said only one person in his SBC congregation of about 50 has been vaccinated. “It’s skepticism about effectiveness,” he said. “People are concerned it was rushed out too quickly.” Bethancourt, a former vice president of the SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, has spoken with congregants who spurn the vaccine and say they’re unafraid of dying if that’s God’s will.
Partnering in the initiative is the Ad Council, known for iconic public service ad campaigns such as Smokey Bear and “Friends Don’t Let Friends Drive Drunk.”
🙄 careless
Mike Pence needs to endorse the vaccine.
This cartoon from a year ago has aged very well.
Hello
Duh
For Sure. This is a demographic of people so disenfranchised that the only way they can cope is to grab onto a simplistic thought to give them the illusion of control.
MarikaSboros Religion poisons everything..
Gee I thought Blacks were the big problem. Let’s talk about how White evangelicals are refusing the vaccine but MSM is focused on convincing us.😒
Can confirm via some of my white evangelical family
MaRk Of BeAsT MaRk Of BeAsT MaRk Of BeAsT MaRk Of BeAsT y’all yell while most likely being fully vaccinated against things that were also deadly like small pox, it takes a special type of idiot I guess
Well...they believe in an afterlife, angels and paranormal activity so you're suprised they don't believe in science?
Start with the fact that they are loco about a whole lot of things. This is more of the same. They are add no value to humanity.
I’m a liberal atheist, I am skeptical of these vaccines. It’s new technology, and we’ve had no time to assess long-term side effects. U don’t need to be a religious nut job to be skeptical. I am, however, glad to see no side effects in those I know who have been vaccinated.
I think we should start calling them 'Christian supremacists'.
Bloc, circles... what is that?
There’ll just be less of them at the voting booths, I guess. Nothing wrong with that. 🤣
Foolish
Superstitious thinking is no defense against COVID-19?
The Pope has told them to get vaccinated, and we know who tells him what to say. Some Christians, huh? USAEvangelicals
MarikaSboros -Doesn't believe medical science. -Believes virgin gave birth to a baby who was actually a space god and came back from the dead.
MarikaSboros maybe its a sign... to wipe all these folk out? I doubt the rest of USA would really care? Get rid of the weak that are sucked in by conmen running a fake faith business
White Lives Matter
Good riddance to them all......StillResist
Human sacrifices?
Duh, they think magic will save them and not actual scientific actions.
doodlebug0 Statistically the future Covid deaths and suffering with 'Longtail Covid' symptoms will then be white evangelicals. Did they🤔 think this through?
valleylea TALIBANGELICALS each and every one of them.
Do you guys follow world news. Look what's going on in Israel. Don't fight against each other. Unite. United we stand.
AmericanWoman8 THIS JUST IN: High Correlation Discovered Between Anri-Science Magical Thinking and Belief in Stupid Shit!
This is not surprising, considering they believe a bunch of bullshit already...
We should stop worrying about vaccine skepticism until everyone who wants to live gets a shot. When we get to the point where everyone who dies is a Trump supporter maybe they'll get the message. If not who really cares?
They think God will save them. I got news for them!
Jesus never got any vaccines, I'll tell you that much, yeehaw
Who cares
Liability is the best solution. You start bankrupting these sleazy televangelists and you'll see things get better really fast.
deray What they’re engaging in is not “skepticism”
Can I make funny faces and put my hand in the air and you'll send me cold hard cash? No proof necessary? All based on a book written 2000+ years ago by goat and sheep herders who lived and breathed superstition.
Also water is wet. Tell us something we don’t know.
nbcsnl
These a$$holes never cause anything but problems.
How many ways will evangelicals screw up things for the rest of us?
Too busy raping children to get the facts
Ahhhh the right to lifers!!!! Great job guys! Jesus will be proud to know you put so many people at risk.
White Racist Cult!
Culling the herd ie humanity is a good thing
Perhaps if fauci and his crew had not lied constantly to the American people to manipulate them the people would have confidence in this vaccine
Man these folk can't wait for the end of days. Cults of Oblivion unite!🥲🥲
You guys need to shuuuus , cheap land opportunities soon!
They only believe in the make-believe.
suck people in and feed them lies this is not Gods intention
That’s surprising considering what they are willing to believe
Ardamora The Lie continues. Need to Procecute those who started it and those who continue to spread it.
Incredibly Foolish.
FreshMouthed Clearly the road to heaven is paved with stupidity.
Always have to put race into your reports to keep it alive to better divide our country
lol
THIS IS TOTAL B.S.! JOURNALISM AT IT'S FINEST.
good more vaccine for the ones who actually have some rational thought
I cannot understand their attitude.
This is what we call a 'self-fulfilling prophecy'
jcrn2009 They believe that a shepherd put two million animals on a boat, then dropped them all off at thousands of locations around the planet, but they don't believe that a shot that keeps people from getting sick keeps people from getting sick.
A cult of people who have been actively preaching a mass-death 'rapture' event since westward expansion, now righteously walk into Death's open arms. And no one is actually asking the question of why so many are so DESPERATE to go?
So they can believe ministers that drain their pockets to buy jets/mansions/luxury cars but are skeptical of a vaccine that could save their lives and those in their community? How Christian of them.
Religion at odds with science and empirical data? Is this something new?
yeah, but these guys always think something is up. they probably look up each other’s assholes to make sure satan isn’t hiding there.
The lack of common sense. God will protect you from virus...but not a home invasion “don’t take my guns”. The vaccine is protecting human life, just like guns are “supposed” to be used for protection.
Darwin can have them. I'm good with that
The Bible says that there were 5 wise and 5 that were foolish... sounds like widespread foolishness to me.
Shocker.
Well american evangelicals follow any and all snake oil salesman so of course they are anti-vax
RicardoPodcast
They’re getting vaccines just lying about it. Just like abortions.
Darwin winks.
Thoughts and prayers..
cinna_von where’s the SNL skit about this?
nbcsnl
The most ignorant. Fixed it for you.
No more Cruises for them..😁
make a 3-hour YouTube video explaining how Q says getting the vaccine is the best way to undermine the deep state and they'll line up
Who would have thought people who worship an ancient blood god would be adverse to vaccines
SatiricusRex We're in the 21stC and America is supposed to be a scientific leader in an age of reason, yet here we are, with millions rejecting reality and pursuing magic faeries with machine guns for answers.
Maybe if they were offered a cup of Kool-Aid with their vaccine injection they just might get in line...maybe?!🤷
See nbcsnl you did the skit on the wrong ppl. Leave black ppl alone
This maybe our only hope to wipe out these fuck$rs
Them Fuckin' Christians always tryin' to save someone but themselves.
Oh yes, it’s because god will protect them. Just let it happen...shhhhh....just let it happen. The scourge will take care of itself.
no surprise there, evangelicalism has been used as a vector for pushing neoliberal ideology, which itself hinges on rejection of cooperative society
Sky Daddy will save them lol
Evangelical christians rn
Evangelicals: I don’t need no vaccine or mask the lord will save me” I won’t live in fear Also Evangelicals: I need my guns on me at all times to protect myself from bla.... I mean I need my AR 15 to stop all the blac... I mean bad people. Need my guns to go anywhere
Is this a bad thing?
Boy didn’t see that headline coming 🙄
I’m over here like...
Cotton Mather was a Puritan minister who figured prominently in the Salem witch trials. He also is largely credited with introducing inoculation to the American colonies during the 1721 Boston smallpox epidemic. An 18th-century man had a better grasp of science than these idiots.
Evangelicals have nothing to do with faith or Christianity , the anti vax’s move is strictly political . People have to understand evangelicals are just a far right political movement interested in two things money and political power .
There’s herd immunity and then there’s thinning the herd....bye bye white evangelicals
They believe the Earth is 6000 years old, but vaccines are not safe is all you need to know.
The less of them the better the world will be.
Fuck em!
When you believe with your whole heart that a poor Palestinian Jew died and came back to life as a white Christian savior, but you can’t bring yourself to understand science...
That religion is by far the worst religion ever in my opinion.
They’re really gullible.
Be fair.....racist. You didn't include the opinions of black brown or asians.... What say them
Typical disparaging tone and tenor. Would AP ever put out a negative piece expressing skepticism in the black community, which is quite high?
Crazy evangelicals - they believe in the almighty dollar and the south has many of these fools pretending they hear god. They hear the 👿.
and sadly diseases aren't deadly enough to make this a self solving problem.
Two solutions 1) hire qvc to pitch it with a limited time free offer of not just 1 shot but 2 shots. 2) Say they missed their window and now it's going to neglected communities. Both will have the immediate effect of increasing demand in W. Evangelicals.
Endangering people everywhere! - brought to you by the “pro-life” religion
I suppose if God wants them not to suffer & to live She'll take care if it. If not, it's God's will & I'm confident they'll accept the consequences willingly. Or blame it on someone or something else other than their own stupidity.
Fuck 'em. Let 'em get sick and die. We'll all be better off without them
Evangelicals just don't get it....... they never did. About anything, not just the vaccine. They're just noise flapping in the wind. They have no early idea who Jesus is or what he stands for.
And Canada
Evangelicals will talk about Christian hedonism--following Jesus because it's the most enjoyable life. This is an example of that thinking mutated.
Hard to feel sorry for them but their behavior is a danger to the rest of us
these ppl actually devote their lives to a singular God bc it's the one they were told to believe in. these ppl don't think and they're dangerous to society bc of it
nbcsnl did you notice this—not blacks but white evangelicals are the most vaccine resistant
good riddance then 🤷🏾♀️
so... who cares?
Darwin
CONSERVATISM IS JUST MENTAL ILLNESS WITH A NICER NAME
Well, turns out they are fucking morons
darwin
Pastor's con to be wealthy. Complete opposite of Jesus' teachings and life example. But you evangelicals do your thing. Whatever. 🙄
Sumter Just goes to show evangelicals are way more focused on secular politics than biblical teachings. There is no kindness toward or caring for others. Today's evangelicals long ago set aside the parable of the good Samaritan.
Is his lower lip covering his upper lip?
Get sick recover or die. Vaccines and zero covid19 plan is needed. Pray helps a tiny bit.
chrisjollyhale It is hard to vaccinate them because they are all the way up Trump's anus.
Just another delusional lunatics
JonLemire They believe God will save them from the virus. They like testing God.
Nut jobs
They are not Christian they are racists, bigots, look at history 🙄
Ah yes... the pro plaguers.
Eradicate religion scam noTaxespaid unregulated
I remember being subjected to a former co-worker's racist rants about Bill Gates, the satanic vaccine and the mark of the beast punctuated by the 'n-word' and other slurs. She was a bitter old woman addicted to hate radio. Never been so happy to leave a job in my life!
They believe Trump has been sent by god But Vaccines are the work of Satan but Trump has had the Vaccine so is he a Satanist Honestly some Americans are really thick as shit maybe even thicker
MandyKilpatric4 Exactly why many of us secretly worship evolution. Bye bye evangelicos!
That's because a life based around beliefs instead of evidence and reason is doomed to a greater amount of erroneous decision making. Belief isn't inherently rational.
If white Evangelicals do not stop being so hateful, blind & stupid about politics (and about REALITY in general), and just stick with helping people in need, Christianity won't survive, not because it was outlawed, but because no one wants to be a part of something so TOXIC.
Blacks?
They believed in Trump, what do you expect. Stupid is what stupid does.
JonLemire Apparently being an evangelical means you can support a liar, a thief, a racist, a misogynists because lying, stealing assaulting women is OK in your world? Go ahead, don’t get vaccinated. But stay to yourself and stop going out in public
It runs deeper let say all the millions of people that still think it’s a scam
Antivax evangelicals are Americas own radicalized suicide bombers.
Yes ok ..plenty of those in the black community won't take it either. I know a few black people who don't trust it or the gubment.
See no reason to wake them up to a risk they deny or the possibility of sterility as a consequence.
Again people, stop mixing church and state. If y’all mix them tax them. If not stop finding correlation between these two subjects. Morons.
Well, I’m sure their thoughts and prayers will help.
check this song out
Good riddance
The order would have to come from Putin himself...the same group calls themselves patriots, but hate the country...
It's not possible for me to roll my eyes at these idiots any harder without spraining something
A death cult.
This isn't new, its just that nobody was paying attention before
Absolutely Darwinism at work
A cult
The majority of these right-wing religious people are aggressively selfish, hypocritical and ignorant and believe in nonsense rather than science, so...not surprising.
Depending on a higher power rather than a vaccine to save you? How many evangelicals have died or are in ICU?
Those idiots will believe any nonsense.
evangelicals are the worst christians and all christians are pretty shitty so thats saying a lot
GreatDismal Basically it’s the good thing
Grifters
Yes. Obviously
🥴
Good. We could use less of them in the world. Byeeeee!
White supremacists*
Well, they believe in all kinds of questionable shit, so no surprise. Hopefully, they keep to themselves more rather than less.
Oh well...
CarolGo18658081
Cowards. Period.
They are free to rapture themselves all they want... just leave everyone else out of their self destructive behaviors and delusions.
Let Evolution take care of them.
kbeninato So let them die from their own ignorance and obstinance. Pretty okay with that. Just don't let them vote afterwards.
Natural selection folks.😂
The parable of the man asking God to save him from the flood, immediately comes to my mind...
Every day in the United States there are new reasons for the deepening split in society! Constant contradictions between white, black, yellow, red, masculine and feminine, Nazism and chauvinism! There is a whole complex of problems on the face. And do you dare to teach others?
Rejecting salvation from a cognitively degenerative plague couldn't happen to a nicer set of fundamentalists.
What other group could it be?
All we have to do is Pruvit that It Works and they’ll be inScentsy’d to get onboard
Great! Who cares?
deray Darwin Awards would like a word
Your point is what, To get people to further divide and hate each other? This an experimental “vaccine” for a treatable, seasonal coronavirus with a survival rate of 99.7+%, that only kills people with weak immune systems. T
If they administered them at chik fil e
FUNNAGAN They think they are immune cuz they are white. They are selfish and do not care about other people especially POC & the immune-compromised. Maskholes
Fuck em!
Let them go without. Plenty more those that need it and help accessing it
TananariveDue Well first off, you should stop calling it skepticism and call it denialism, which is what it actually is.
These comments
MarcellusESQ Shhh. Don’t tell them. Just let Darwinism work!
TananariveDue I’m ok with this.
deray But do keep on pretending it's a Black thing because those evangelicals always depend on the scapegoating to cover for their profoundly delusional ignorance.
The lowest common denominator
SNL
Magical thinking is never harmless.
pouvoir87 nbcsnl
MattMurph24 🤷🏼♂️
All clowns you mean
Lots of white evangelicals going to sicken and die without the vaccine & other measures to prevent getting Covid, and I don't mean prayer.
I‘m ok with this.
no worries, God's will and all survivalofthesmartest
Still not getting it
deray well show them the f*cking science and graphs
Are they ever on the right side of ANYTHING
When your a sucker for a fairy tale, you a sucker for a fairy tale. Not surprised.
I thought smartphones were the mark of the beast. ...or was it monster energy drink?
Bye then 🙋
RELIGION IS A DISEASE !!!
spicygarage I think they should stick to their beliefs. Let’s see what happens.
Because they’re cultists
unrulyian And the Lord doth sayeth, 'Let there be fewer sanctimonious hypocrites who defile my name'.
What is a white evangelical? Please define. Who identifies themselves this way? What is your source, AP?
Even though the story recently circulating was that ~17% of trans people refused to take it as well. Sure you are crying because 20% of the US is a higher number, but the point is, it isn't just because they are White Christians.
johnmacarthur lead the charge on this one. Even as hospitals and morgues were filled to capacity in various cities. I seen this plague coming since last January 2020. Hindsight should be 20/20
hope they all get C O V I D
the propaganda is real
TuckerCarlson FBI JoeBiden KamalaHarris can we just actually fix things and imprison folks like TuckerCarlson who clearly want the US to burn?
Fucknuts
Q and trump (gop) influence. So sad.
Let's just accept it as selection and move on.
Imagine my shock.
The survival of the fittest and the survival of the most intelligent.
Only4RM You can’t fix Stupid
They’re not religious. They’re racist fanatics.
Refused to wear a mask because God will save them or it's their time to go. Won't take the vaccine because God won't help them , same with their guns.
Let them die
I find it hilarious that people who believe there is an all power being in the sky controlling very thing based on a book but won’t believe in things that they can see for themselves.
So much for being pro-life 🤦♂️
Are the rest of us suppose to care what evangelicals believe or don't believe and if they get sick and die..well they are certain they are going to heaven...remember when they weren't too concerned about old people dying of the virus...didn't they say old people die of something
Well yeah, they lack critical thinking skills
Sifill_LDF Let them die
lol
🙄
If cruise ships start requiring it watch them all fold like a cheap table...
The path to 550,000+ COVID19 deaths was paved by whiteness. a thread:
It's good to be skeptical of an insufficiency tested unlicensed vaccine.
Good.
I suppose that's one way to rid us of them. Darwinism.
Okay but if jdgreear is the face of white evangelicals we’re doing a lot better than we have been smh
Liers
Evangelicals want to force their beliefs on others but don't like it when they are forced to take vaccines by society's standard 🤧
nbcsnl Next skit?
Natural selection eh?
“Unlike the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was produced in part through the use of cell lines derived from an aborted human fetus.” The concern is valid. Know what goes in you. Them denouncing science wholly doesn’t help
... the common clay of the new west—you know, morons.
This guy explained it pretty well
What a tragedy
That these boneheads are seemingly capable of skepticism while happily believing whatever the most obvious group of grifters in the world say makes my head hurt.
Eff them
This is not surprising..I mean they still think the election was stolen and 45 was heaven sent soooo
Sifill_LDF Why is superstition not met with derision? It can be gentle but it needs to be firm. How do we benefit from showing respect to the superstitious?
But their guy took vaccine secretly. I bet only the lower middle class will not. The upper echelon most likely all have had it. You should check that out
Most of them believed in Trump too, and they were the reason he was elected how did that turn out?
Just to be clear, they loved the idea of injecting bleach...but not a vaccine.
That's a surprise
The evangelicals’ belief of the allegories in the Bible, e.g., Genesis, is already evidence that they don’t have the basic intelligence to discern allegories from factual history, evolution and scientific research. morons
sampietro75 Because religion = suspension of logic
White Evangelical is about as non-Christian as you can get. I went to a funeral at one of their 'churches'. It was a super-spreader event. They seemed to make up stuff on the fly. I think the Bible was just a book to refer to but not something to that had real meaning.
Because it’s not a vaccine. It’s enhanced gene therapy. I don’t trust it at all. Much less those that developed it and even less, the nuts that funded the development of it.
Oh no. The lovely people who bring us voter suppression & vaccine skepticism ALSO worship prosperity gospel, ivory, ombré haired, ripped af, rapture Jesus in the gated community? Shocker.
prof_carrington White evangelicals take the crown as the worst demographic on just about every topic
Evangelicals helped spread the virus too. They insisted on services, and duped their followers into believing their god would protect them. Evangelicals are directly responsible for so much death, pain, and despair.
OMG!THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION! LET ME TELL A SHORT TALE PASTOR BOB GRAY AT TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH MOLESTED LITTLE GIRLS IN THE CHURCH YEP! THERES EVEN A RECORDING OF HIM BEING INTERROGATED BY POLICE IN JACKSONVILLE, FLA. ALL THEY DID WAS SEND HIM TO GERMANY AS A MISSIONARY
cultists gonna cult
The same folks that believe Jesus is a European Pretty boy don't believe in vaccines.......you don't say 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
They are all just fucking selfish.
Evangelical= white supremacist death cult
naomirwolf it’s called Divine guidance vs sheep going to the slaughter following greedy control freaks obsessed with depopulation & playing god, leading the weak & uneducated on the issue to slaughter! WakeUp
Fake news...
Sifill_LDF I’ll make sure I stay out of church, gun stores and Hometown Buffet.
Because they are radical idiots.
Give me a break. Many people just don't want it period. Move on, because the virus is.
I belive in God but I also use the brain the good lord gave me to so get the shot
They don’t believe in science just a book of fables.
Guys. The header photo is jdgreear who GOT THE VACCINE THIS WEEK.
Sifill_LDF
Well, if there's one demographic that could use a good culling...
miniver As an Oklahoman, I'll really miss them.
Is anyone in America surprised by this?
The Tajikistan variant's got this one....
They have been conditioned to believe whatever bullshit they hear in their temples to the gods of american capitalism
Once again, ppl without fever, are not infectious! Do you understand! - not infectious!
Well... don't get vaccinated and pray a lot.... simple
And white men wonder why BBC trends on pornhub
My dad and his older brother gone before and waiting for the vaccine. These people are repulsive.
Because most white evangelicals are dumb as fuck.
That’s why Easter was the first time I’d been to church in over a year. And I didn’t go to my church (which doesn’t follow CDC regulations). I went to one on the coast with open doors, fans, masks, and ocean air. It was fantastic!
See China's policy of how it's using the event, ongoing
Religion conditions people to believe that for which no evidence exists and to abandon critical thinking. If evangelicals reject covid safeguards and the only ones it kills is them ...I'm actually good with that.
don't you want to know WHO director's religion? Is WHO's religion called VCN? Ppl are not allowed to have cold? Ppl having cold are not allowed to travel? Do you know how china is using this event?
The level of selfishness of Christian evangelicals continues to astound me. How do they declare their religious righteousness and not follow the actual teachings?
Well if you believe the shit storm of garbage they feed them every week, why would you expect them to not be sucker's for almost any conspiracy theory or non-evidence based idea
So seriously proposing we sell the Louisiana Purchase back. Buy one get Mississippi and Alabama free!
Sifill_LDF Well, if you believe in one fantasy you're more prone to believe others🤷♀️
Haleaziz Who needs em. They don’t care. I don’t care.
jesus would be loudly anti vax and anti mask and be really mad about dr seuss
MonopointAmy Surprising who exactly? These are the people who think Trump is smart.
Gosh. Color me not surprised.
SacriliciousM
And they all gather in mega churches to spread it among themselves then they go to Chick Filet and Hobby Lobby.
🤣🤣🤣
Sifill_LDF Go to meet God then!!
One million with one positive- they call it pandemic- don't you want to know WHO director's religion? Is WHO's religion called VCN?
nbcsnl
put em on an island
Check this out philvischer
Now meth that’s a whole different story
Sifill_LDF People proven to embrace magical thinking continue their magical thinking
Sifill_LDF
Sifill_LDF Never underestimate white uneducated people... I say this as both...
Dear Jesus, Please save us from your followers.
Sifill_LDF
Not a story. They don't get the vaccine. No problem.
More racist garbage from AP. Think they'd write an article like this about black evangelicals? Hispanic evangelicals? Not a chance. AP is woke!
Evangelicals are cults anyway and they are just waiting for the end times
Sifill_LDF Well to be fair Evangelicals don't exactly have the best critical thinking skills. Virgin birth - yeah seems legit.
Sifill_LDF Because they are hypocrites
hey, if they want a faster path to meeting Jesus, who are we to stop them?
Sifill_LDF Yeah well we know what evangelicals have done to our country. Best to steer clear of those crazies.
Sifill_LDF Yet they believe the greatest con man and grifter Donald Trump.
cutelilbearcub Believe in flying spaghetti monsters and speaking in tongues but not a vaccine. Ok religion.
White Evangelicals are not genuine Christians. Is a cult and no wonder they were hitched to Trump. Franklin_Graham GovMikeHuckabee
*shocked*
It's because they are nuts. They believe in a mean fairy god and that Trump is his son.
aptly_engineerd I think what's most confusing to me is that the White Evangelicals also give praise to Trump for rolling out the vaccine, but then are skeptical of its purpose and nature.
grace_panetta If they could die as an isolated group, their stupidly would okey-dokey with me.
nbcsnl
namshine Vaccine Skepticism is a funny way of Saying 'Bipedal Smallpox Blankets' or 'Christofascists', but you do you, I guess.
grace_panetta
I've got serious health issues,but waiting in a half mile car line,not knowing if I'll react adversely,and a rushed vaccine where mistakes are more likely to happen and have.I will wait and jump in when convenient.
You can't pray away the gay. You can't pray away cancer. You can't cure the blind. And you can't pray away Covid19.
Aka maroons
Hey nbcsnl why don't you do an unfunny skit about white evangelicals too?
Well yea, evangelicals, religious fundamentalism are inherently anti science.
Evangelicals believe in the fairytales of children. They scoff at any scientific evidence that is not specifically mentioned in the Bible. They believe their belief system overrides knowledge of the universe and its contents. They are fantasists.
Hee hee
I feel like there’s a lot that runs deep among white evangelicals.
JaySumlin1 Let them do not take the vaccine, let them pray instead .... 😏 let only them all gather together without a mask to pray out loud .... 😈
So does stupidity so there's probably a correlation there.
White evangelicals 1.6.21 - we don't need them, we don't want them, let them chose their own demise.
Weird, considering they worship a guy who was literally like a walking vaccine, curing people of various ailments and diseases.
So, if all you evangelicals get sick you don’t go to the doctor, you don’t take medication because it’s so much better in heaven?!?! JUST STAY IN YOUR CHURCHES AND DO NOT INFECT THE REST OF US WHO ACTUALLY HAVE A BRAIN AND USE IT!!!EvangelicalIdiots
Yet we don't see any programmes specifically targeting white evangelicals for vaccine acceptance.
In the future, people will look back on these morons and think they’d rather die than trust science. Because the less you know, the more you believe.
They reject germ theory altogether, not just vaccines
But they are willing to pray to the golden Trump idol go figure But then again the evangelical church leaders are all about the money I feel they are nothing but grifters
What do you expect from fairytale believers. They’re rooting for the rapture anyway. I think they should rely on their imaginary invisible friend who grants wishes to protect them rather than science.
When people quote the bible does that include the 500 other times that same quote was relevant to life? Polio vaccine Chicken Pox Vaccine Small Pox-which actually left a mark Mumps Diphtheria I mean it did predict Drumpf....his followers. So basically they are going to hell.
Well then don’t get vaccinated then but when you get Covid symptoms please stay home and die instead of taking up valuable hospital space
Thoughts and prayers to them.
Hahahaha DUH
It is what it is. If he's willing to die for his crazy beliefs, I'm happy to let him
Cool.Darwinism.
The fault for this lies squarely on the back of evangelical leaders. Their followers would shoot vaccines into their eyeballs if these con men told them to. They look down on their “flock”. They could do the right thing but you know they get a sick thrill controlling them.
Doesn't this illustrate the problem of putting blind superstitious faith ahead of scientific knowledge?
Nah.... you don’t say. It’s because they never log off and are batshit crazy
If someone did their own research they would see the risks for themselves... Most people have NO IDEA vaccine manufacturers, of all vaccines, are not allowed to be sued.
This is by far the easiest group to manipulate. They will literally believe anything if a religious authority member says it. Trump tapped into that hard. These people are killing them selves for their belief. One time it’s poison Kool Aid. Today it’s coronavirus.
Meet Darwin ...
Little do they know God will require proof of COVID vaccine before Rapturing
That’s them. Not the Asian.
Guy survives being eaten by a whale, guy survives a lion’s den, woman turns into a pillar of salt, guy walks on water, but this vaccine is what they don’t believe in
Let them reap the results
Evangelicals are scary AF. Let them go extinct!
PATHETIC... and dangerous. I thought all knowledge came from God- including the creation of vaccines to stop a plague.
Psh...not this Christian. “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord...and get fully vaccinated.” 😜😊
White evangelicals can fuck the hell off. Might as well believe in fairies.
curious if there are folks who think the covid vaccines are not OK but other childhood vaccines, yearly flu vaccine, vac for elderly are OK,,,
Because everything was so much better in medieval times! 🙂🤔😬😳
Well they believe if they are '..bathed in the blood of Jesus' there's no need to take vaccines or precautions. Jesus thinks they're COVIDIOTS😎
Let god save them.
It’s because they’re idiots
I find it strange that these people dismiss years of scientific progress but believe this guy is their deliverer on earth....
Not to worry...Q will save them!
White evangelicals: I love Jesus, god will protect me. God: 🙄
I've got to where I abhor the word 'evangelical'.
Not a surprise!!! I went to a total of 7 NLCS and WS games last fall and every single time I saw someone not wearing a mask at a game it was a 50 year old plus white make wearing a cross!!!
Over ten generations of educational budget gone to waste. A poorly educated society proud of their worthless Superior Firepower .
Of course. They are low education, anti science religious nut cases.
Christianity doesn't require you to be stupid...but it sure seems to be these days
To the surprise of absolutely no one.
Vaccine skepticism widespread among white evangelicals? Well, I always look for the silver lining in every cloud. Here, for example, I see fewer Trumpist voters next election. The Lord works in strange ways....
Sure it is.
It’s a good thing! Don’t take the vaccin = less of them.
Are they the same ones who staunchly believe in the right to bear arms at all costs?
So does stupidity.
Good.
'White evangelicals' Translation: White supremacy in drag...
Again the media is feeding the idea anyone who is not liberal or on their side is ignorant, uneducated, and like lemmings. I can assure you we are not. You put a group of people into a general, stereotypical mass, but you forget how nuanced human beings are.
Skeptical about science, not skeptical about the bible. Checks out.
When you believe an invisible space monster created the universe in 6 days.
Dangerous idiots.
I too have a make believe friend.
Natural Selection...
If you spend all your time talking about made up shit, how would you expect them to suddenly be a good judge of facts?
Wrong. A photo is not evidence of mysticism. This appears to be just a headliner for sake of journalism.
Then they'll blame society
Rapture coming early
scott_squires So the Rapture might just turn out to be all of them dying of COVID?
Let them rot.
this works for me
Hilarious, probably because they can’t sell their own snake oil then.
Is anyone surprised? Worshipping their imaginary friend!! People are locked up for things like this.
What if the vaccine was just a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against COVID-19?
But they believe this dude and this book.
I say, SO what!! Let them not get vacinated. Maybe they'll maybe they won't. If they dont...less stupod people in the world and more vaccine for the rest of us. That's how we breed out dummys. ImproveTheHumanRace
And...
I guarantee their kids have been fully vaccinated for school up until now.
During the 15th century plague how many people do you think flicked to the church for gods protection and died because of it? Granted there were no vaccines back then but there certainly was no lack of faith in ignorance
TGSOFL Thoughts and prayers!
'Jesus will protect us from the virus.' 'We need more guns to protect ourselves.' So Jesus only protects you against microscopic organisms, it seems.
Stupidity slso is widespread among white evangelicals.
Let Them All F’n ☠️☠️☠️ and go meet their final judgment!!! F them all 🖕🏻
God is AGNOSTIC and AMBIVALENT, totally IGNORING anything stupid humans are doing. If anything irritates God, it would be stupid evangelical 'christains' thinking He/She agree with anything THEY claim. Anyone claiming that God is against vaccines is FLAT OUT LYING.
'With white evangelicals comprising an estimated 20% of the U.S. population, resistance to vaccination by half of them would seriously hamper efforts to achieve herd immunity …' Twenty percent? Can that be right? White evangelicals are 20 percent of the US population? 😯
EvangelicalsNow lmao
Can they have their own side of the country no vaccine no entry.
More for normal Americans.
be a real shame if those folks just sort of Darwin'd themselves...and also couldn't spread it to others
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Stupidity* fixed it
As they say, let Darwin do his work.
Vaccines are the way out of this mess.
Stupid is as stupid does
They have thoughts and prayers to protect them
Only because their heavenly faker aka tRump hasn't given them his permission yet.
God be like:
Because they have accepted Trump as their savior and chosen one
JonLemire
DarwinAwards
Evangelicals are a cult. They do not follow Jesus’ teachings
Let them reap what they sow.
JonLemire Stoopid
That 'skepticism' is rather surprising. After all, they already believe -- many literally -- what could very well turn out to be the most outrageous lies in all of human history.
He, I wonder why
stupidity and racism, they seem to go together with this crowd.
Darwinism at its finest. 💋 bye
🤦🏽♀️
Darwin, err I mean Jesus will take care of them.
all they had to do was say it is s an 'Essential Oil' and they would have jumped over each other for the chance to get it and sell the idea to 4 more friends'
I commend JD Greear for setting the right example, but white evangelical culture is driven these days by conspiracies, fear, and a virulent reactionary politics. It's going to take more than photo-ops to fix what's broken there.
Good let them all go to Jesus.
They are science deniers. From the sun to fossils to climate change, vaccines are just the next battle in the war between fundamentalism and science. These are people that anticipate the end of times, so of course they see it everywhere.
They believe in an invisible man in the sky. But a vaccine being safe is a bridge too far. Smh
Darwin rocks.
JonLemire Trumpers!! Call it what it is!
To think the TB vaccine saved them for this.
We’re skeptical about a shot that improves our odds from 99.8% to 99.9%.
AmericanChristianTaliban ChristiansInNameOnlyForTrump
The invisible man in the sky can give a flying F whether you get a vaccine or not just like he doesn’t care whether you put your seat belt on when driving....People are delusional...
That’s why I still wear my mask and social distanced bc of of these crazies. I’m pretty they’ll be responsible for the creation of a new variant strain — the Q variant.
So it reads... 16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: The vaccine does not leave a mark on your forehead or in your right hand, ok? Now go get your vaccine already.
JonLemire They only believe in magic.
They are not skeptical. Do not use that word. They are vaccine hostile.
thoughts and prayers, dopes.
Jesus is my health insurance.
Bigotry is amore widespread among evangelicals than almost any other major bloc of Americans
Oh wow, so people who believe the earth is 6,000 years old are resistant to science? Astonishing.
The same people who say “Bless President Trump for Project Warp Speed- Biden should give him credit!”- also won’t get the vax themselves.
No “evangelical” here....but I’m fully anti-mRNA FastTracked covid “vaccine”. If you’re curious where this is heading, it’s really no different than flu vaccinations....except even less effective (therefore an increased requirement for more frequent “boosters”).
You would think evangelical leaders would be encouraging their flock to get vaccinated to ensure that the collection plate is full on Sundays.
People do NOT listen to these idiots. They are not doctors, scientists, or in medicine in anyway shape or form.
Fundies have been pests in every society for centuries.
But they wholeheartedly embraced that orange guy🙃🙃
Living in the panhandle...can confirm.
let god sort them out
'Grab the back of your television sets and get a SHOCK for Jesus!'
JonLemire Could it because they’re crazy and stupid? Unfortunately they will remain disease vectors.
Give me the gay / autism causing vaccine please. If you don't want it I'll take it. I need more of it.
Darwin
JonLemire They believe trump and their backwoods preachers .
And don’t forget the big lie
If you believe in a 10k year old earth, you’re 100% more likely to believe antivax propaganda. Hitch was right, religion poisons everything.
I'm going to wait for the white community education campaign featuring white singers and cartoons with indy pop songs........ that's not going to happen is it? White people are treated as individuals capable of making informed decisions.
Why?
Who cares. They’re all mentally ill
Why the divisive racial language? From article: '40% of white evangelical Protestants said they likely won’t get vaccinated, compared with 25% of all Americans, 28% of white mainline Protestants and 27% of nonwhite Protestants' no mention of Black Evangelicals? ConceptualJames
We need a new amendment. No one who can't pass a basic 5th grade level biology class should be allowed to vote.
1) If God will protect them from the virus, why do they need guns? 2) Why did God “let” 13 nuns in a convent die of COVID? 3) If scientists/doctors can keep a premature baby alive w/technology and medicine, why won’t they believe God gave them the ability to develop vaccines?
JonLemire To embrace the vaccines and science behind them would mean embracing science in general and enlightenment first. And evangelicals have never done that. They are still denying evolutionary theory.
Shut ‘em down
Because they’re STUPID and IGNORANT
My in laws being two. Makes me crazy, my husband is beside himself with worry of losing them to Covid-19.
At our Saturday night seance, Herman Cain pleaded with me to put the word out for 'everybody to get vaccinated' - then he coughed twice and vanished into a puff of smoke.
Found a shortcut to ending evangelicalism
Sad....very sad.
Evangelical circles are a bit pear shaped as they don’t believe in geometry
I mean who can blame them? How can you believe it something you can’t see or understand? ::snicker::
Wait, you mean the people who are dumb enough to pay for a fraud's private jet and ten bathroom mansion thinking it'll get them into heaven are also stupid enough to believe anti-vaccination frauds on Facebook? Well, who could have possibly seen this coming!
Well, I've looked very, very hard. But I can't find the down side to this story.
Brcause they believe in scifi
Stop mitigating language. Call it what it is: STUPIDITY is widespread among White evangelical... Black ones too.
Is this not a win win?
Just proves your an idiot if you believe in God
“Almost any other major bloc of Americans” 🤔so who makes up the top bloc?
Well of course. Dont believe in Science, don’t believe in vaccines. Insane
have had just about enough of white evangelicals
Makes sense. Followers of organized religion are among the most ignorant people in this world.
Because they’re all idiots.
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