If you study the history of the Pharmaceutical Industry it is ripe with these types of uncertainties until it has become certain that the Pharmaceutical industry was lying. The debate has always been between a heavily funded propaganda machine and the unfunded people whose lives are destroyed by their lies.jaydam wrote: This is uncertain. Thus, the thread.
With the exception of taxes (render unto Caesar) I believe Christians should be avoiding these things as much as possible.I see plenty of Christian families poisoning their kids slowly with fast food and sugar as well. The science behind the negative impact of such food items is much stronger than vaccination speculation.
I wonder how many things we would have to abstain from if we believed we were morally responsible for related, but indirect to us, moral actions...2) My biggest concern is that no abortion, no vaccine. We haven't started over and created new vaccines that don't come from the original aborted tissue. I believe this would be possible today due to modern advances but it hasn't been done because the scientific community does not object to abortion and thinks that would be silly.
Do you pay taxes? Support Hollywood by watching movies? Buy products made essentially by sweatshop/slave labor?
Interesting point. One difference is those practices have long stopped while abortion continues w/o enough objection from Christians. We have and continue to sacrifice more babies each year per capita the pagan societies ever did. We could create vaccines that were not based on this evil practice if enough people stood up for what is right. We could create vaccines w/o poisons in them if we didn't want to make them as cheap as we possibly could and relied on fast delivery and proper refrigeration instead of poisonous preservative.As I admitted, I have not looked into the fetus/vaccine issue much, but if it does trace back to two abortions in the 1960's I am not certain I am to abstain from good brought out of evil.
When I was in the Army, evidently some of the treatment we use on hypothermic solders was pioneered by Nazi experiments on the Jews. Does that mean I do not use the treatment because of what it came out of?
I cannot say I stand certain on my position. These are just my initial thoughts.