7. Vaccines and Moral Culpability
Episode Description
In this episode Peter discusses how politicians can change their views, the continued fight for pro-life legislation, and the morality behind the new COVID-19 vaccines. Abortion has played a role in the development of vaccines in the United States. So how are we, as Christians, meant to respond to the moral dilemma of using a vaccine that utilizes aborted fetal cell lines? Find out what the USCCB has to say as well as Peter's own thoughts on the issue.
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USCCB Statement: https://www.usccb.org/moral-considerations-covid-vaccines
Kansans For Health Freedom concerns over the COVID vaccines: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d0301718520ae000165cc5b/t/5f32ab395638a230fb02a8c4/1597156153675/KSHF+COVID-19+Vaccine+Concerns+Flyer.pdf
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“In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. ‘How are we to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.’
In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors—anesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.
This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”
- C.S. Lewis
