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I remember discovering that I am very pro-vaccine.
It happened some time in grade school, when I was watching some program, I don't remember why or for what class, where there was a large family that was choosing not to vaccinate anyone, and wouldn't take them to the doctor when they were sick. Because they didn't need medicine, God would take care of them. But the schools wanted them to vaccinate their kids before admitting them. And that was against their religion.
I just remember getting so angry. I had those fevered revenge-fantasy style daydreams of Swat teams rappelling in and injecting them all. Or of them all dying of the flu while whiiiiiiining that God would save them.
Looking back, I suppose that incident had something to do with the contempt I hold for anyone who points to God as someone directly guiding them and protecting them from harm. You know, the ones for who medical treatment is against God, the ones who think a being that created the universe would care what someone eats or who they have sex with or the specific details of worship. Or that every accomplishment is God's doing; human effort had nothing to do with it.
That kind of person... well, their God is meddlesome and mean-spirited, and I hope to hell that I'm more right than they are. If I have a religion, it's Deist. Someone, someones, or something either created the universe or set things up so it could form, maybe meddled somewhere down the line, and then backed off to either watch or went away to try something else. I believe that there is something after death, and it's far less codified and far stranger than the Heaven/Hell/Purgatory thing.
Anyway, vaccines do not cause autism.
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