Only half of American adults want H1N1 vaccine

The other half are just dumb, apparently. To be fair, this was an internet study so the results might be a bit biased.

But then I have to wonder about that, because it’s not like half of Americans read “Natural News” and other New Age crackpots. So where does this irrational fear come from?

Debbie Goddard at the Center For Inquiry might have an answer to that question. She received an email from some pastor about the role of the H1N1 vaccine in the “End Times.” He hilariously describes his “vision” showing him that, although he thought he was amongst sheep, they were really WOLVES IN DISGUISE!!!!!! Get it?  They looked like sheep, but they were really wolves in disguise. It’s almost as if they were wolves in sheep’s clothing.

After this revelation, God did that authorial intrusion thing it sometimes does:

Here, God spoke to me saying ‘my son, every person will be asked to compulsorily take immunization against the swine flu in the next few days. This is a disguise. They will in the process be infected with demons from the abyss; all who do not have my spirit and my seal upon them. Yes, it will be such that that they will receive a deadly spirit inoculated into them.

Two things occur to me:

1. Did Mesac Damas get an advance version of the “deadly spirit” injection? Is that how the devil got him?
2. God’s promise about every person being forced to vaccinate against H1N1 sounds like a testable claim. If this actually happens “in the next few days,” I will sell everything I own and become a mindless servant to this pastor. Actually, I’ll be generous and interpret “the next few days” as being until the end of flu season.

On that second point, I wonder if this pastor will admit he was mistaken in his “vision” if everyone is not forced to vaccinate. I guess we will have to wait and see. [UPDATE: Good debunking of H1N1 antivaccine fears here]

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Tags: antivaxers, Christianity, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience