Today, I'm writing about the newly-hot-button issue of vaccination. Now, I'm guessing you came in with one of two viewpoints about the debate: A) VACCINATE ALL THE THINGS! or B) VACCINATE NONE OF THE THINGS! and are keyed up to fight based on what my opinion is. I don't intend to feed either of these sides of the argument. Instead, I want to look at the issue more closely and through a different lens while sharing some information with you.
To begin; I was vaccinated as a child. I was vaccinated a lot. My dad worked for the military, and we lived overseas. I was getting stuck with needles every other month, it seemed. I still caught an array of exciting and exotic diseases; however, I did not die, nor did I succumb to Autism. I was vaccinated prior to and during college--meningitis for dorm living and typhus/yellow fever (I think) for travelling abroad in Korea. It wasn't until I started thinking about my future children (and became an Israelite) that I gave vaccines much thought.
So, where do I stand on vaccines? The answer is, "about one third on the 'no' side". But why? Is it because I'm worried about Autism? Is it because I'm a hippy who believes only in homeopathic medicine? Is it because I'm leery of the MSG, formaldehyde, and aluminum present in vaccines? No. It isn't. It's because of this: the CDC list of vaccine ingredients.
[NOTE: I only talk about some of the vaccines and some of the ingredients in this post. I highly suggest you read it for yourself and do your own studying if you're curious.]
Or, to be more specific, it's because of these:
Hydrolized Gelatin
Embryonic Guinea Pig Cultures
Porcine _________ ("Porcine" means, "from pigs")
The Reveal
Some of those are pretty self-explanatory. Guinea pig, gotcha. But, what about those others ones? Take a minute to follow the links. I'll wait. Okay, we have monkey kidney, we have some cocker spaniel cells--not such a big deal. Animal testing helps humans, blah blah. Mmm. But those last two. I didn't think much of them when I was doing my initial research. They're just strings of letters and numbers. Probably a chemical or something, but I looked it up just to be safe. Imagine my surprise when I found what they were. "Aborted fetus".
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| "Perfect! Harvest the lungs!" (source) |
Let that sink in a moment.
In the 1960s some women decided to get abortions. After the children were scraped out of their wombs, the doctors decided to take some cells and use them in vaccines. These kids weren't buried; They were dissected.
A combination of their cells are in most of the vaccines on that list. Some of those vaccines are vaccines I was given as a child. I had the cells of murdered children injected into my bloodstream to prevent infection. Hep A? Hep B? MMR? Et tu, Brute?
If I was not an Israelite, the dead baby cells would be enough for me to say "no" to those vaccines. If nothing else, it's creepy. It's cannibalistic. It's wrong.
The Law
I am an Israelite, and there are rules about these things, and that's where the animal cells tie in. One of the rules YHVH gave to people was about what was considered an "abomination", "unclean"--something not to be touched, if it could be helped. The animals are talked about in Leviticus 11. It's a list of animals to eat and not to eat. On the list of 'do not eat' are monkeys, pigs, dogs, and guinea pigs. Now, you could say, "But injecting them isn't eating them!", and you'd be technically correct. However, I think, if He said "do not eat", He's not cool with injecting them either. Either way, the cells end up being processed in one's system. Humans count under the rules of Leviticus 11, I believe. We don't fall under any of the "sure, chow down" categories, therefore; people are not meant to be consumed. If that weren't enough, there are additional laws about the treatment of a dead body:
- "Whoever touches a human corpse will be unclean for seven days." (Numbers 19:11)
- "And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days." (Numbers 19:17)
- "And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves..." (Numbers 31:19)
Touching a dead body makes one unclean. Being unclean is sometimes inevitable; bodies must be buried, for example; the point is this; dead people aren't something to play around with. Their bodies are not to be taken lightly. And, as proven by Leviticus 11, unclean things are not to be consumed. Eating an unclean thing is not a matter of taking a shower. Touching a unclean thing requires a shower. It is not a sin to be unclean, but it is a sin to eat what one is told not to eat, and I believe that includes dead babies.
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| Just say "no" to cannibalism |
Getting vaccinated with any of the vaccines that include these animal or human cells is not something Israelitism allows. There is no verse that says,"Yea, verily, if thou art very sick, thou mayest consume thy dead brethren" or, "so sayeth the Lord, 'though eating an unclean animal is an abomination, verily, it it permissible to otherwise put it into thy bodies", so there is no excuse.
Summary
I'm cool with vaccines in theory. Letting the immune system practice killing diseases sounds like a great idea. But, these ingredients give me pause, and they should give you pause, as well, regardless of your religious or non-religious affiliation. As for me, until we can make vaccines without the unclean animals or dead people, I'ma pass.
