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"He believes the end of the world is coming."
So he deliberately destroys vials of a vaccine developed to keep people safe(r) from a deadly virus. His sincerely held religious belief โ regardless of reality โ should trump people's safety. /1 https://www.thedailybeast.com/wisconsin-pharmacist-accused-of-spoiling-covid-vaccine-thought-it-could-change-peoples-dna-cops-said
So he deliberately destroys vials of a vaccine developed to keep people safe(r) from a deadly virus. His sincerely held religious belief โ regardless of reality โ should trump people's safety. /1 https://www.thedailybeast.com/wisconsin-pharmacist-accused-of-spoiling-covid-vaccine-thought-it-could-change-peoples-dna-cops-said
Questions we and the media should be asking about Brandenburg and what he has done:
1. Who has authorized so many of us to take leave of reality, to shrug our shoulders at science and highly trained experts, and to imagine we're doing a good thing as we behave this way? /2
1. Who has authorized so many of us to take leave of reality, to shrug our shoulders at science and highly trained experts, and to imagine we're doing a good thing as we behave this way? /2
2. The Supreme Court has told us that sincerely held religious belief should allow employers to flout civil rights laws everyone else has to follow. Where does this idea that, simply because a cockamamie belief is sincere, it's good, come from? /3
3. What are the consequences for a society of permitting people to cite their sincerely held religious belief as a warrant when they behave in conspicuously anti-social ways?
4. Why are "belief" and "religious belief" in particular necessarily good, for so many of us? /4
4. Why are "belief" and "religious belief" in particular necessarily good, for so many of us? /4
5. What harm do we to to ourselves and society as a whole when we set ourselves up as little authority figures, thumbing our noses at reality, scientific truth, experts, claiming that if I say it or believe it, it's right โ regardless of the consequences? /5
6. Where does this particularly American hubris come from, and what role has religion long played in developing and bolstering it? Why does QAnon nonsense appeal IN PARTICULAR to right-wing Christians in the US?
These questions need to be asked. /6
These questions need to be asked. /6
