Religious Exemption Request for the Covid Vaccines

This document is a letter that provides the Biblically justified reasons for requesting a religious exemption to the Covid vaccines. It is super-strong and proven to have worked. It is biblically founded and directly addrresses the issue of getting vaccinated and addresses other conceptual problems that may be raised, such as "Ok, then why do you do other vaccines?" Or, "why do you engage in other types of medical care". It has no "loop-holes" per-se, except in the sense that it will not overcome the irrational policies of medical tyrants.

You must customize the exemption request below.

Bad Arguments and Poor Strategies: do not use these

Here are some of the bad arguments and strageies for justifying a religious exemption which will fail, as they each contain a legal loophole or error of some sort:

The vaccines contain or were manufactured using pork or animal products, or they were designed or manufactured with fetal cells. My religion is against abortion or requires kosher or agains the use of animals in developing and testing medical products.

• Supporters of the Covid vaccine have elaborate (laregly made-up) studies describing that the Covid vaccines do not have these qualities or were not manufactured in this way. Further, you are effectively making a claim based upon a scientific argument and it will be scientific experts (their experts, not yours) who will assert that your claims are not true, whether they are or not. In making a scientific claim, you have opened the possibility that you would vaccinate if the science did not support your claims, which means all that they must do is invalidate your scientific claims. Further, since you are not regarded as a qualified doctor or scientist (and they have restricted this determination to doctors and scientists that agree with them) your opinion of the science in this matter is not relevant and will be disregarded.

• The second reason why this argument (or similar ones) will fail is because then you must also prove that you have consistently followed this belief in other parts of your life. Conversely, it is relatively easy for the opposition to claim that your beliefs are not genuine because you have previously used products that have been either tested using animals, may have used fetal cells in their development, or are non-kosher. For example: makeup, other types of vaccines, aspirin, or any medical product have all been developed or contain non-kosher biological materials, may have used fetal cells in their development, and/or have been tested with animals.

The vaccines were developed from fetal cells and therefore, we would be supporting the practices of abortion by vaccinating.

This argument will fail for similar reasons as described above. The opposition will claim that this is not a true statement and/or you will forced to verify that you have never used any other medical product that has been developed from fetal cells. Or, you will then have to prove that abortion was employed in generating the fetal cells used in the specific vaccination. The opposition may simply make the (non-sense) claim that, "No, abortion was not used to generate the fetal cells used in this vaccine", even though there is no other way to get fetal cells than from an abortion.

Vaccination mandates are against our Constitutional freedoms and we would be aiding or abetting in something immoral by vaccinating.

This argument will fail (regardless of how you state it) because: 1) its debatable for whether vaccinating is immoral, and if you've vaccinated your kids previously your belief will not appear as genuine, or 2) government often engages in activities and policies that some may regard as immoral, and its not your right to object to any government policies or laws simply because you think it is immoral (FYI: the Bible doesn't say this either), and 3) without providing specific Biblically grounded reasons, you arguments will seem more like political beliefs and will not be covered by a religious exemption.

I prayed about vaccination and read the Bible and God told me not to vaccinate.

This is a reasonable argument -- if we all agreed that the first amendment means what it says. Unfortunately, much of our society does not agree that the first amendment includes a right to religious freedom, instead interpreting the right as something far less than it was intended (such as a right to worship, as describe by Barack Obama).

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Religious Exemption Required

We are requiring that <insert organization> provide a religious exemption to the policy requiring the Covid vaccines. Our sincere and deeply held religious beliefs do not allow us to use the Covid vaccines, which we have described in detail below. The Covid vaccines are all manifestly opposed to our Christian religion as determined by the Bible and we would be engaging in an act of idolatry by using the Covid vaccines ourselves or allowing our children to be vaccinated with them.

Summary of Christian Religious Beliefs

To summarize the tenets of our religion, it is God, and not humankind, who has sovereignty over creation; humanity is only a steward of creation and this includes our physical bodies and a determination of how a body can be modified or changed. This sovereignty (i.e. the authority of governance within a territory or context of application) includes sovereignty over a Christian's bodied-personhood and that of their family: that of our “Being-ness” as a person in an embodiment, its constituent functionality, and its inherent iterative creational process. Furthermore, we have promised ourselves to God and this promise includes a recognition of His sovereignty over our own self-determination, and excludes voluntarily granting this sovereignty to another person, to an organization, to a random or designed physical or medical process, or to a government.

Along a similar principle, this tenet precludes me and my family from using other medical or health products that are widely used and which are intended or designed to alter a person’s being or underlying functionality, for example: 1) use illegal or legal drugs which would permanently impair an emotional function through continued usage (such as marijuana, cocaine, antidepressants, or opioids), or 2) taking an anabolic steroid or other product which would unnaturally and artificially improve a physical ability, or 3) taking a hormone to present oneself as the opposite sex, or 4) using plastic surgery to modify a person’s appearance beyond its natural form, or 5) consuming foods to an extent that would alter a person outside of what is natural or designed. These are all in violation of our religious beliefs.

Furthermore, exercising an undeserved sovereignty over my bodied-personhood or my that of my family, or granting such authority to another party or an artificial physical mechanism determined by humankind would be an acceptance of and submission to a practice of idolatry which is a serious sin as described in the Bible. In this context, the word “idolatry” is defined as the act of ascribing, transferring or granting a power, gift, goodness, or aspect

of God or an attribute of God to something that is not God and would effectively raise that object to a determining level or power above God. In the examples above, a person would be engaging in idolatry by using these, as: 1) in using an illegal or legal drug to permanently impair an emotional function would be to alter the natural cognitive functions that God has designed human beings to have, and 2), 3) and 4) taking an anabolic steroid, hormone, or having plastic surgery to modify a person's appearance would be to assert that our bodies is of higher importance than God and God’s determination for our physical form, where the person would be placing their determination and worship of their body above that of God, and 5) consuming excess foods in act of gluttony would be to raise up the consumption of and enjoyment of food above a level of God, into a love for something above God.

And these acts would each be a willful sin, which is most certainly condemned and would

subject me and my children to God’s wrath, where a lack of knowledge in committing sin provides no excuse. A metaphor to describe the concepts of “Stewardship” versus “Sovereignty” from the Bible is like that of a gardener maintaining a garden that is not his own and that he did not create. The gardener can maintain the garden, he can pull out weeds from the garden, he can trim the plants of the garden, and he may even spray insecticides to stop pests from invading the garden; however, he is not authorized to pull out the healthy plantings of the garden or to remake the garden in his image: this act would violate the authority and intention of the garden’s creator (God).

I’ve used this metaphor because this tenet of our religion does not necessarily preclude the use

of common and well established medicines, although it certainly limits their usage in some respects and may even exclude certain types of medicines. For example, we have no objection to the temporary use antibiotics (i.e. insecticides), because they attack bacteria and then disappear, nor would I have an objection to medical procedures to repairs broken limbs or lacerations, or which would remove cancer (trimming the garden, pulling out weeds). All metaphors have their limits, but the most certain boundary of what is permissible or impermissible is whether a medicine alters a constituent bodily function beyond what is naturally intended or designed by God or which restores a damaged natural function.

Of course, when a word search is performed in the Bible, the word “vaccine” would not appear anywhere in the results. However the Bible has much to say in evaluating and testing cultural behaviors and human activities for determining whether those behaviors are permissible or impermissible for a Christian to engage in. A method of evaluation is clearly described by Paul in Romans 12:2, which Christians should employ:

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by

testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”

Romans 12:2 is an extremely useful passage in evaluating whether human activities are

permissible or impermissible because Paul was chiefly concerned with how the followers of Jesus Christ adapted and utilized the message of Jesus Christ to live out godly lives in a pagan dominated world; that is, to live out “the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect” through discernment of what social practices or human practices were acceptable or not. And Paul’s message about “the world” is chiefly concerned with the practices of humans. In fact, most of Paul’s letter provide guidance to nascent Christians for how they should live out the Kingdom of God in their lives, being constantly surrounded by pagan practices and constantly being tempted to engage in those practices even in circumstances where there were clear temporal benefits of doing so (such as not being fed to the lions in the arena or losing access to the pagan market guilds that were widespread throughout the Roman empire).

This tenet gives way to performing a test concerning these three vaccines:

• What do these three vaccines actually do?

• To what extent are human actors involved in the spiritual aspects of their effects?

• Does the use of these vaccines violate God’s laws or sovereignty?

• Does the use of these vaccines perform an idolatrous act?

• What is the will of God applicable to this matter?

The will of God in this matter is that God is intended to be sovereign of creation and humans are only to be stewards of it. He created our universe. He is the owner of this garden that we live in and inhabit, and we are not to empowered to alter its essential aspects or play around with its basic functionality or design, even if we believe doing so would be beneficial. This tenet applies to even the most basic aspects of creation, such as the functions of a person's physical body.

Conversely, the three Covid-19 vaccines function by inserting their contents into the cell of a

body and alter cellular functionality, modifying the expression of DNA (that is, the blueprint of a person’s life and body) through the injection of mRNA. These vaccine each hijack cellular facilities. They are a unique and novel medical product never before used that employ a new technology which modifies inter-cellular functionality by modifying the expression of DNA and its translation into functional proteins but they are similar in category to the five examples listed above. Indeed, the chief medical officer of Moderna (Dr. Tal Zaks) described the new mRNA technology used by Pfizer and Moderna vaccines in a 2017 TED talk, stating,

“We are actually hacking the SW of life”.

He may have made this remark boastfully, but he was very serious. The Johnson and Johnson vaccine performs a similar function using an Adenovirus transmission vector to perform the same effect.

We have evaluated Dr. Zak's statement and found them to be very accurate, appropriately describing the functionality of the mRNA and adenovirus vaccines work: the three Covid vaccines (and other variants) do indeed, “hack the SW of life”.

But the message conveyed throughout the Bible is that the only "programmer" that is allowed to “hack the SW of life” in a Christian's body is God. The Bible makes this clear from the very beginning through the very end. God is the author of creation and humans cannot and Christian's should not violate His authorship. In other words, these three vaccines would insert new functionality into each affected cell in a person's body (even if the effect may be temporary); the effects of this are systemic and would permeate as far as the injected materials can travel; this new functionality is controlled and designed by fallible human beings who are certainly less than God, and a person would thereby be placing their bodily functions in the control of humans; it would cause a person's body to be conformed to the world in how it functions, assuming a pattern in conformance to what the human authors intended and/or may not have intended; and this functionality would permanently determine how a person's body operates in the future, altering its functionality towards another purpose that is unnatural and certainly not intended by God.

Every aspect of this act is contrary to the will of God and his design.

Such would be an act of idolatry in a biological-technical form, but still an idolatry, and a certain violation of God’s sovereignty over creation in its most basic functions inside of a person's body, and this act can never be undone. Furthermore, this act would be accurately characterized as “idolatrous prostitution” as the act would be to employ the use of a person's body towards an idolatry. And in doing so, we would also be bringing destruction upon myself, as is written in Hosea 4:6:

“My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. ‘Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.”

In other words, we could fully expect that in performing this act, even if performed with the best intentions, a Christian would bring upon themself a rejection by God and that rejection may even extend to their children and family, or beyond their own life. A Christian would even be concerned that this act would carry forward into an eternal existence, beyond

death. As is noted in the Bible, when Jesus returns in a resurrected form he still has the wounds of Crucifixion experienced during His natural life. Would this change then also carry forward into our children's eternal existence? We cannot say for sure.

Even the idea of this frightens us, and the Bible’s messages in every aspect of this is

uncompromising in its rejection of the practices of Covid vaccinations. And we cannot compromise our religious beliefs for the sake of the appeasement of others, no matter what the reason. Every instance and message conveyed to us through the Bible is that this act would be completely immoral, it would be an idolatry, and would be opposed to God’s will for what is “good and acceptable and perfect.” The Bible and the Christian religion firmly and unambigioulsy forbids the usage of the Covid vaccines.