From the early 1800s: Vaccination “devours mankind,–especially poor helpless infants,–not by scores only, or hundreds, or thousands, but by hundreds of thousands of thousands. … Yet, strange to tell, this monster has found not only a multitude of friends but worshipers, who prostrate themselves before him, and encourage his voracious appetite.”
Category: History
Vaccination an Unchristian and Dangerous Practice (1721) (Reverend Samuel Grainger)
“I see no Reason why we should Comply with [smallpox inoculation] as our Duty, but reject it as Scandalous to the Gospel of JESUS CHRIST and Dangerous to Society.”
The Complicity of Ministers in Popularizing Vaccination (1756) (Rector Joseph Greenhill)
Greenhill blames certain ministers for the popularizing of inoculation — even more so than physicians. This is very important, because ministers have a very significant moral influence on society. They can make the difference between life and death by vaccination — and how much a stronghold vaccination has over a people.
FLASHBACK: Confederate Captain Ruled Guilty and Executed for Vaccine Murder (and other Crimes)
The first and only trial and conviction for vaccine murder? Read about this trial that took place after the War Between the States, and 4 important takeaways.
Satire on the Religion of Vaccination (1878)
And, whereas, the said Joseph Abel doth still refuse to bow down and worship the vaccine image which a medical priesthood has set up, or submit his child to their blood-polluting rites, we have directed further proceedings to be taken against him.”