August 2021, Week 4

This week's topics: PRRI study reveals that evangelicals who are hesitant to get vaccinated say that they could be persuaded by their religious leaders. Ministers who encourage their flock to get vaccinated, ministers who demonize vaccination, and ministers who are afraid to tell their flock to get vaccinated. Religious Identities and the Race Against the Virus: (Wave 2: June 2021), https://www.prri.org/research/religious-vaccines-covid-vaccination/ Vaccine skepticism runs deep among white evangelicals in US, https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/vaccine-skepticism-runs-deep-white-evangelicals-us-76882757 Death Cult Preacher Hands Out "Exemption Letters" to Anti-Vaxxer Christians, https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/08/20/death-cult-preacher-hands-out-exemption-letters-to-anti-vaxxer-christians/ White Evangelical Pastors Hesitant to Preach Vaccines, https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2021/may/white-evangelical-pastors-covid-vaccine-hesitancy-preach-ch.html White Evangelical Churches and the Crisis of Vaccine Hesitancy, https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-08-10/white-evangelical-churches-and-the-crisis-of-vaccine-hesitancy Pastor reveals the reasons behind COVID vaccine hesitancy in the evangelical community, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/pastor-reveals-the-reasons-behind-covid-vaccine-hesitancy-in-the-evangelical-community --- Our intro and outro music is Crescents by Ketsa, https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/Raising_Frequecy/Crescents