{"id":181,"date":"2021-11-21T00:04:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T00:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/104.193.40.20\/greggfriend-wp\/?p=181"},"modified":"2026-02-08T00:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:05:02","slug":"religious-exemption-pondering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"Religious Exemption Pondering?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have heard of some people claiming a religious exemption from receiving a vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I am baffled.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been a citizen of King Jesus\u2019s kingdom for many years. I have read the Bible, cover to cover, several times. I have a Master of Theology from a very conservative theological school. I have studied the Bible in the original languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can\u2019t find anywhere within any Biblical beliefs that say receiving any vaccine is a sin or opposed to faithfully following King Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder what religion requires an exemption from receiving any vaccines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First posted November 21, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have heard of some people claiming a religious exemption from receiving a vaccine. I am baffled. I have been a citizen of King Jesus\u2019s kingdom for many years. I have read the Bible, cover to cover, several times. I have a Master of Theology from a very conservative theological school. I have studied the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}