What Next: Best of 2021 | God Doesn’t Want Me Vaccinated

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🗓️ 27 December 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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We’re re-running some of our favorite episodes from the past year. This episode originally aired in September 2021. Who are the people seeking a religious exemption to the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate? What are their religious claims? And how do workplaces decide who has a real claim to belief versus a convenient letter from a pastor-for-hire? Guest: Ruth Graham, reporter for The New York Times. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Danielle Hewitt, Elena Schwartz, Davis Land, and Carmel Delshad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.0	About a very specific type of holdout.
0:58.1	Those that were trying to use religion as their get out of vaccine free card.
1:07.3	For the last few weeks, Ruth Graham, she is a reporter over the New York Times, has been
1:12.2	logging on to Telegram, the encrypted messaging app, to Evesdrop.
1:17.1	Ruth reports on religion, which was interested in QAnon at first.
1:22.1	And then it turned out that there were all kinds of interesting conversations happening
1:27.0	there.
1:28.0	It's just a much more free-wheeling space, I guess you could say.
1:32.4	It's hard for Ruth to describe what she's hearing.
1:35.4	Is it religious chatter, political?
1:38.4	You know, on some of these topics, it is so hard to disentangle the political from the
1:44.4	religious.
1:45.4	I would say it was political conversations that were completely woven through with faith.
1:52.0	So, people sharing prayer requests, but then the content would be political, praying for
1:58.0	Trump, praying for Trump's return.
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