Covid-19 Religious Exemption

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Hello to those who have successfully obtained a religious exemption from the Covid 19 vaccine. Could you please share how you formatted your exemption letter and what you included?

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12 minutes ago, CommunityRNBSN said:

One of my state’s biggest employers (hospital system) now requires a letter from a clergyman. You can feel your own private beliefs or whatever, but in order to get out of a workplace mandate, you gotta have somebody with religious authority write a letter. 

As if the religious leaders are all thinking clearly or behaving responsibly about covid mitigation...

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On 8/29/2021 at 2:15 PM, jive turkey said:

1. Reflecting on a discrepancy in your comparing driving a bus to taking vaccines.  

2. I consider it dangerous to subject to any vaccine/drug without question or concern.  This vaccine is not like the others that have been required.  The other required vaccines aren't a few months old.  This disease is not like the other diseases their respective vaccines treat.  This is a bad comparison.

but this is about religion so I digress.

3.  You didn't answer my question.  I'd really like an answer to that.  I'm curious how many mandated, indefinite booster dependent vaccines people will tolerate.  What's your magic number?

For me, as many as it takes!

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My employer has their own form for religious exemption, but if you are having to provide your own. The short and sweet of it is; provide a statement as to what your beliefs/ religious affiliation are. How taking the vaccine would be detrimental to your belief, or religious affiliation.  Be specific and don’t use generalizations. Also get a signature or statement from your religious leader, or another whom you practice with. If you have have a specific place of worship provide address and/ or location. Best of luck to you!! Oh and sorry that your question wasn’t answered seriously by a few rude inconsiderate attention seekers.

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I haven't filed a religious exemption to vaccination, but I have applied for a scientific exemption to religion.

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?Nice! Love it!! Hahahaha

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If you have to ask what it would take to get a religious exemption, it leads me to believe that you don't have an actually religion-based belief, you just don't want to have the vaccine for Covid-19.  

Honestly, that's how I view most religion-based medical "decisions". I said most, not all because I've been in the medical field long enough to see people conveniently cry religion(!) at the strangest things. 

Yes, I'm skeptical. 

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On 9/2/2021 at 1:19 PM, CKPM2RN said:

If you have to ask what it would take to get a religious exemption, it leads me to believe that you don't have an actually religion-based belief, you just don't want to have the vaccine for Covid-19.  

I was thinking the same thing. Otherwise you would go to resources provided by your church, clergy, etc. with this question. This sounds more like a "who's gotten out of getting the covid vaccine? how'd you do it?" situation 

 

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Im still curious about this too genuinely. I haven't heard of the actual belief system and reasons not to get the vaccine based on religion. Christian denominations are the most prevalent in the U.S. and I don't know of any denomination against it. I know the Catholic faith is not against the vaccine. (The only religion I know well.) All I see is a lot of republican Christians who are against the vaccine with a fair amount of people signing the religious exemption.  Many people in this country are also quite verbal about their religion but appear to be suddenly silent about why they get a religious exemption.Is there a common religion or other personal belief that I'm missing? It appears that most people who are looking for the exemption are simply against mandates, want to keep their jobs, and feel that lying in their exemption letter is justified. 

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Let's say you have your form approved and accepted, but it will not allow you to work with the patients. They can accommodate your employment status if available or hold your spot until this pandemic is over.

Read Title VII, ADA, and your personal religious and medical history that can support you. If you just slide back in to use your religion, you'll appear to be a scumbag or foolish to those people. Don't take a religion lightly.

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On 9/2/2021 at 9:06 AM, Kerivara said:

I haven't filed a religious exemption to vaccination, but I have applied for a scientific exemption to religion.

Just Mean!

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19 hours ago, anewsns said:

Im still curious about this too genuinely. I haven't heard of the actual belief system and reasons not to get the vaccine based on religion. Christian denominations are the most prevalent in the U.S. and I don't know of any denomination against it. I know the Catholic faith is not against the vaccine. (The only religion I know well.) All I see is a lot of republican Christians who are against the vaccine with a fair amount of people signing the religious exemption.  Many people in this country are also quite verbal about their religion but appear to be suddenly silent about why they get a religious exemption.Is there a common religion or other personal belief that I'm missing? It appears that most people who are looking for the exemption are simply against mandates, want to keep their jobs, and feel that lying in their exemption letter is justified. 

There are only two religions that forbid vaccination. Christian Science ad the Dutch Reformed. Some Catholics and other Christians cite the use of Fetal cells obtained from an aborted Pregnancy in the 1960's as the reason they don't want to vaccinate.

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27 minutes ago, hppygr8ful said:

There are only two religions that forbid vaccination. Christian Science ad the Dutch Reformed. Some Catholics and other Christians cite the use of Fetal cells obtained from an aborted Pregnancy in the 1960's as the reason they don't want to vaccinate.

Someone pointed out the fetal cell issue to me for some Christian denominations. I had completely forgotten about that. Some Catholics use that as well, though it is not the official stance of the church (I checked the stance of the Catholic church in relation to fetal cells after they pointed it out). Pope Francis even encouraged Catholics to get the vaccine. Apparently since the person who takes a vaccine containing elements (or used testing) from that fetal cell line was not directly involved in the abortion and can not go back in time and prevent the abortion, it is more important to support life by preventing the spread of illness and getting the vaccine. I know much stricter Catholics who would probably disagree with the official stance but they also have political motivators.

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