Many pro-vaxxers will insist that we are all morally obliged to vaccinate ourselves (which amounts to poisoning our body) — otherwise, we are a danger to ourselves and others.
What is implied in this (at least by those who really understand what they are saying) is that God’s design of the immune system, which opposes the process of vaccination, is at best severely defective, and at worse useless. In any case, man — according to this perverse view — can do better than God.
Understandably, many might call such a view blasphemous. And in fact, here are a couple quotes from 1892:
The vaccination theory implies, and vaccinators and pro-vaccinators openly assert, that a healthy unvaccinated child is a nuisance, as dangerous as a mad dog, a rabid horse, etc. Such wild talk is blasphemy against the Creator, who doeth all things well. Such a theory per se condemns any practice founded upon it.
Vaccination Tracts, “Vaccination Evil in its Principles, False in its Reasons, and Deadly in its Results” (Providence: Snow & Farnham, 1892), 4.
[W]hat now is the Compulsory Vaccination Law? It is a law for compelling parents to violate their conscience by consenting to the performance of an operation on their children, which they regard as unnatural, dangerous, and therefore sinful. It is a law which makes it criminal for an Englishman to keep his children in health. It is a law which invests a medical trades’ union with a monopoly of the right of creating disease in every healthy born infant. It is a law which—passed by a professedly Christian legislature, in a professedly Christian country —postulates the blasphemy that the Creator is unable to send His creatures into the world except as a ‘dangerous nuisance ;’ and postulates the infallibility of a certain radical sect, who propound an unclean superstition as the sole means for counteracting the mischievous effects of His handiwork.
“The Liberal Party and Vaccination: Re Professor Fawcett,” in Vaccination Tracts, “Historical and Critical Summary in Three Parts: Part III. Pro Aris et Focis. The Religious Nature and Political Necessity of the Vaccination War.” (Providence: Snow & Farnham, 1892), 35, 36.
If you find this site helpful, please consider supporting our work.
