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What's up y'all? Welcome to Stray White American Jesus. My name is Beto Nishi.

And this is our latest episode in the series X Evangelical Apologetics.

And it's actually going to be our last installment for a while.

Next week, we're going to be switching over on Wednesdays to mildly heart.

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I've been running this series on our Patreon, but I want to make it available to everybody.

So we will be starting that next Wednesday.

For our last X Evangelical Apologetics installment, I want to talk about vaccines and vaccine mandates.

Some of you might have seen that Jim Jordan.

I said that vaccine mandates are un-American.

There's pastors and columnists and pundits who are all up and arms about vaccines and then being mandatory for work and for other things.

There's a lot of folks who are talking about how when vaccines are available to children at certain ages that mandating vaccines for children to attend school

is infringing on their rights and is un-American and so on and so forth.

So I want to address some of that.

I want to do so in a way that addresses the concerns about our American ethos, but also coming from the Evangelical perspective that Uncle Ron will no doubt be touting at the barbecue or at dinner.

Uncle Ron might be from another tradition might be conservative Catholic or LDS or something else.

So, you know, there's a number of ways Uncle Ron can show up.

But I think what I'm going to do today applies to all of those.

So let's talk about vaccines.

Let's talk about isolation.

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