What Next: God Doesn’t Want Me Vaccinated

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🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.6	For the last few weeks, Ruth Graham, she is a reporter over The New York Times,
1:08.0	has been logging on to Telegram, the encrypted messaging app, to Evesdrop.
1:13.2	Ruth reports on religion.
1:15.4	She was interested in QAnon at first.
1:18.3	And then it turned out that there were all kinds of interesting conversations happening there.
1:23.5	It's just a much more freewheeling space, I guess you could say.
1:28.4	It's hard for Ruth to describe what she's hearing.
1:31.5	Is it religious chatter, political?
1:34.5	You know, on some of these topics, it is so hard to disentangle the political
1:40.3	from the religious.
1:41.6	I would say it was political conversations that were completely woven through with faith.
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