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Title: In many COVID hot spots, a pattern: High concentrations of white evangelicals
Source: religionnews.com
URL Source: https://religionnews.com/2021/07/15 ... rations-of-white-evangelicals/
Published: Jul 15, 2021
Author: Jack Jenkins
Post Date: 2021-07-22 02:52:11 by Gatlin
Keywords: None
Views: 3813
Comments: 34

In many COVID hot spots, a pattern:
High concentrations of white evangelicals

By Jack Jenkins

‘It’s clear that the pattern is more white evangelical Protestants equals lower vaccination rates,’ said Natalie Jackson, research director at the Public Religion Research Institute.

As COVID-19 cases surge again, two things are true about many counties considered hot spots: Vaccination rates are low and white evangelical Protestant populations are high, according to a new data analysis.

Concern about vaccine hesitancy or outright anti-vaccine sentiment among white evangelicals has persisted since at least March, when, according to a poll from Pew Research Center, those who said they were Christian and born-again were far more likely than any other religious group to say they definitely or probably would not get a vaccine.

A full 45% of white evangelicals fit this description. The next-closest religious classification (Americans who list their religious affiliation as “nothing in particular”) was a full 9 points lower at 36%, which was also the national average.

A separate poll, conducted in April by the Public Religion Research Institute and Interfaith Youth Core, reported that white evangelicals also have the highest rate of vaccine “refusers” (26%) — people who firmly state they will not get vaccinated — compared with other religious groups.

An association between low vaccination rates and evangelical faith was further confirmed this week by researchers at PRRI. In data provided to RNS, analysts pulled from the group’s “2020 Census of American Religion,” overlaying county-level data about faith on top of vaccination rates compiled by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In May, the White House cautioned against any attempt to “typecast” faith groups, but federal officials such as Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, have repeatedly named faith leaders as potential vaccine ambassadors.

Speaking during an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation” over the weekend, Fauci said the White House is encouraging nongovernment “trusted messengers” to champion the vaccine — including local clergy.

National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins, himself an evangelical Christian, pleaded with his fellow faithful last month to get vaccinated. Overwhelming evidence, he said, indicates COVID-19 vaccines authorized for use in the U.S. not only dramatically reduce the likelihood of contracting the disease, but lessen the chance of hospitalization and death.

“We need everybody to line up behind this goal, recognizing this isn’t about pleasing Joe Biden, because a lot of evangelicals are not that interested in pleasing Joe Biden,” he said. “This is about saving lives.”

Some evangelical leaders have also launched efforts to combat vaccine skepticism in their congregations. Russell Moore, a former Southern Baptist Convention official, told Religion News Service: “Evangelical Christians should be leading the way in thanking God for the cure we spent a year praying for. The least we can do is get our shots so that we can carry on our mission in our communities, without fear of getting anyone sick. Our gospel witness should be contagious; we shouldn’t be.”

Despite efforts to promote the vaccine, new data suggests white evangelicals make up a higher share of the population in counties where vaccination rates are low. This is particularly true in portions of the Southeast and rural Midwest such as Missouri, where scientists have detected surges in COVID-19 cases linked to the more transmissible delta variant of the virus.

The congregation of James River Church in Joplin, Mo., participates in a praise hymn. Photo by Joshua Sorenson/Unsplash/Creative Commons In this 2018 photo, the congregation of James River Church in Joplin, Missouri, participates in a praise hymn. Photo by Joshua Sorenson/Unsplash/Creative Commons

PRRI’s researchers found the population of white evangelicals to be especially high in Missouri counties where COVID-19 vaccination rates for people age 12 or older were 20% or lower. There, members of the faith group make up 49% of the population on average. In counties with vaccination rates between 20% and 40%, white evangelicals constitute 42% of the populace.

In counties where vaccination rates ranged from 40% to 60%, white evangelicals’ share of the population plummeted to 30%.

“It’s clear that the pattern is more white evangelical Protestants equals lower vaccination rates,” said Natalie Jackson, PRRI’s research director.

The data matches local surveys conducted by the Missouri Hospital Association. When the group released data in April, the only faith group it singled out was white evangelicals, indicating 38% were vaccine hesitant. Experts believe the sentiment can have dire consequences: According to a recent analysis from The Washington Post, hospitalizations due to COVID-19 — as well as case rates overall — are strongly correlated with low vaccination rates.

Missouri hospitals have been overrun with a surge in COVID-19 cases in recent weeks, with hospitals requesting extra ventilators and bringing in traveling nurses to handle the caseload. As ICU units swell, Steve Edwards, CEO of Missouri-based hospital system CoxHealth, has pleaded with locals to get vaccinated.

“Begging people to take the vaccine while there is still time,” he tweeted Friday (July 9). “If you could see the exhaustion in the eyes of our nurses who keep zipping up body bags, we beg you.”

Similarly, Moore told RNS he has spoken with evangelical doctors “discouraged to the point of exhaustion by the low rates of vaccination among sectors of our fellow Christians,” despite pleading for people to get vaccinated.

The explosion of cases has already bled into nearby Arkansas, where low vaccination rates also track with high average white evangelical populations. In the one county with a vaccination rate under 20%, white evangelicals make up 47% of the population. For counties in the 20% to 40% range, white evangelicals average 46%, but that dips to 35% in counties with vaccination rates between 40% and 60%.

The pattern may be set to repeat in Tennessee, one of several states that have seen a sharp uptick in cases over the last week. In counties with vaccination rates at 20% or lower, PRRI’s analysis found that white evangelicals make up 50% of the population on average. Roughly the same was true for counties in the 20% to 40% vaccination range, where evangelicals make up 51% of the population. But in counties with 40% to 60% vaccination rates, the number shrinks to just 43%.

In Florida — which has seen the greatest percentage increase in COVID-19 cases over the past week, according to The Washington Post — vaccination rates overall have been higher than in other parts of the Southeast, with none below 20%. But white evangelicals remain best represented in the lowest tier: In counties with 20% to 40% of eligible people vaccinated, white evangelicals make up 36% of the population on average.

In the 40% to 60% range, white evangelicals make up 20% of the counties’ populations. In the 60% or above range, they constitute just 13% of the population on average.

The pattern is less pronounced in northern states. Take Maine, where white evangelicals are less represented and COVID-19 vaccination rates are high; none of its counties report vaccination rates under 40%. Of those counties in the 40% to 60% range for vaccination rates, white evangelicals make up 22% of the population on average. Of those above 60%, evangelicals constitute around 19%.

White evangelicals are hardly the only holdouts against COVID-19 vaccination. Other faith groups such as Black Protestants, Hispanic Protestants and white mainline Protestants have also expressed various degrees of vaccine hesitancy or anti-vaccine sentiment when polled. In addition, White House officials are targeting new vaccination efforts at younger Americans, who exhibit lower vaccination rates compared with their elders.

There may also be overlapping issues: In Missouri, counties with spiking COVID-19 cases skew rural, where health care access is often more limited.

But for many, religion’s role is undeniable. CoxHealth released a video last month of a hospitalized COVID-19 patient named Russell Taylor. Speaking to an offscreen interviewer, Taylor explains he did not get vaccinated because he was “skeptical,” adding that his stance on contracting COVID-19 amounted to “Well, if God allows it, it must be.”

Taylor, wearing a hospital gown and speaking between labored breaths, goes on to outline how he contracted the virus that attacked his lungs and left him bedridden for weeks. He insists he now supports vaccination for himself and his entire family — a position that he, again, roots in his faith.

“My stance on that is: God made medicine too,” he says.

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#1. To: Gatlin (#0)

COVID hot spots, a pattern: High concentrations of white evangelicals

More propaganda from CDC shill Gatlin.

More Carol Baker style attacks on whites and Christians.

Fake "Christian" leaders are joining in...

Russell Moore, a former Southern Baptist Convention official, told Religion News Service: “Evangelical Christians should be leading the way in thanking God for the cure we spent a year praying for. The least we can do is get our shots

A genuine Christian does not advise others to take unknown and untested substances. Russell is probably a crypto-freemason. The Southern Baptist Convention is absolutely rotten with these demons.

National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins, himself an evangelical Christian

Collins is a creepy gay milquetoast...nothing more to say.

hospitals have been overrun with a surge in COVID-19 cases in recent weeks, with hospitals requesting extra ventilators

Phony fake news. Ventilators are in landfills...

http://">www.local10.com/news/local/2021/04/19/why-are-new- ventilators- being-trashed-in-a-miami-dade-landfill/

Here's what this article really signifies:

And I saw the souls of them that had been beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the Word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast, nor his image, nor had received his mark upon their foreheads or on their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. Rev. 20:4

The globalists, along with white Christian hating Jews like CDC Carol Baker, and lucifer worshipping freemasons who have crept unawares into the Church (Franklin Graham, SBC leaders, ect) are laying the ground work for the justification of "getting rid" of Christians.

And so are you, Gatlin.

watchman  posted on  2021-07-22   14:17:54 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: watchman (#1)

More propaganda from CDC shill Gatlin.

More Carol Baker style attacks on whites and Christians.

Fake "Christian" leaders are joining in...

Gatlin has gone full-bore BLM with his "blame whitey and Christians" schtick. It's a wonder why Stone even tolerates this propaganda peddler.

Deckard  posted on  2021-07-23   6:28:03 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Deckard (#7)

It's a wonder why Stone even tolerates this propaganda peddler.

I wonder about that too.

At least Stone would delete his posts from time to time.

With Stone on hiatus Gatlin will continue to flood this place with his bitterness and lies.

watchman  posted on  2021-07-23   9:22:17 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: watchman, Deckard, abd Everyone (#8)

At least Stone would delete [Gatlin’s] posts …

So, since you cannot have a strong position to argue intelligently against an issue where I am presenting both sides for consideration in a post – then you are saying that the posts should be deleted.

WHY?

If your position is strong, then create a valid argument where there is no need for censorship and you must ignore validating context and inconvenient facts deserving of consideration.

To call for censorship, demonstrates your weakness of position for argument and a lack of ethics.

But then …

A fanatical religious person cannot intelligently argue from a position of strength – If they think they’re right, they’re always right.

Gatlin  posted on  2021-07-23   23:00:06 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: Gatlin (#13)

So, since you cannot have a strong position to argue intelligently against an issue where I am presenting both sides for consideration in a post – then you are saying that the posts should be deleted.

WHY?

To my knowledge Stone did not delete posts that were composed of your personal opinions and views.

He deleted the articles you posted from liberal crazies...that you posted repetitively.

repetitive [rYÈpedYdiv] ADJECTIVE...containing or characterized by repetition, especially when unnecessary or tiresome.

Those articles were liberal, anti-conservative, and anti-christian

You were using those articles as weapons to push your liberal, globalist NWO agenda.

Stone was acting as a moderator.

Since you cannot moderate yourself he has to do it for you.

Stone is a gracious host imo.

watchman  posted on  2021-07-24   6:51:05 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: watchman, and Everyone (#16) (Edited)

So, since you cannot have a strong position to argue intelligently against an issue where I am presenting both sides for consideration in a post – then you are saying that the posts should be deleted.

WHY?

To my knowledge Stone did not delete posts that were composed of your personal opinions and views.

You have flawed knowledge – and as always, a wrong belief that is perceived by you to be a self-evident fact for eternity.

He deleted the articles you posted from liberal crazies...

Yes, he did.

… that you posted repetitively.

Yes, I did.

Those articles were liberal, anti-conservative, and anti-christian.

Yes, they were.

Conservatives always scream ‘Holly Hell’ when privately held social media deletes articles supporting conservative views.

Yet, it’s “God Bless, Stone” for deleting articles on a privately run chit-chat site that supports liberal, anti-conservative, and anti- Christian views.

Why is this - watchman?

I say let people read those dissenting articles and disagree them on the open forum – if they can intelligently do so.

Oh, but when they can’t be intelligently disagreed with and be shown where the articles are wrong – then what is the only alternative?

Ah Ha – DELETE those dastardly articles !!!

Not smart …

You were using those articles as weapons to push your liberal, globalist NWO agenda.

Nope, that was only your “PERCEPTION.” And you believe that simply because – AS ALWAYS – it was what you wanted to believe.

I presented those articles for open debate to show both sides of positions.

Yet, nobody – absolutely NOBODY – could or ever did dispute those articles to show where they were wrong. All that some assholes could do was to occasionally personally attack me for posting the controversial articles or approve of Stone deleting them.

Why ???

Stone was acting as a moderator.

Stone was not acting as a moderator. Stone acting as a far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized through the use of his dictatorial power. Where he forcible suppressed any opposition against his beliefs.

Had he been intelligent, he could had disputed the articles. That would have been much better and far more rational. Since he could not, he deleted the articles.

Since you cannot moderate yourself he has to do it for you.

Why do I neev to “moderate myself” when Stone has posted in is Mission Statement that …

… any news that one feels needs to be discussed is welcome at Liberty's Flame. This site was built upon the idea of free speech so everyone is welcome to come and discuss and debate the issues on hand.

Stone does not say that ONLY conservative news will be discussed – Stone says – REPEATING:

… any news that one feels needs to be discussed is welcome at Liberty's Flame.

Is that a LIE – or, IS THAT A LIE ???

Tell me …

Stone is a gracious host imo.

Of course, you do.

It is a natural predictable reaction since you never disagree with Stone and Stone never disagrees with you. You are echo chambers. And you mirror each other.

How much more “GRACIOUS” of a host can he be for you …

You neglected to answer my question before you went into your rant to laud Stone.

I will therefore, repeat my question:

So, since you cannot have a strong position to argue intelligently against an issue where I am presenting both sides for consideration in a post – then you are saying that the posts should be deleted.
And again, I still ask – WHY …

Gatlin  posted on  2021-07-24   8:56:15 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: Gatlin (#17)

WHY? Why is this - watchman? Why ??? And again, I still ask – WHY …

watchman  posted on  2021-07-24   9:29:25 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: watchman, and Everyone (#18)

WHY? Why is this - watchman? Why ???

Jeffy - Why "Music Video."

That was cute.

But AGAIN, I still ask – WHY …

Why do you want articles deleted and go unread?

I believe it is best to know what liberals think and then it is easier to see where they are wrong.

How do you determine liberals are wrong if you don‘t listen to them or read what that have to say?

Is it Divine Intervention with you – a purported miracle caused by a deity's active involvement in the human world?

Gatlin  posted on  2021-07-24   10:07:13 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: Gatlin (#19)

I believe it is best to know what liberals think and then it is easier to see where they are wrong.

I already know what you liberals think, Gatlin...

Get rid of whites. Lockdown the churches. Wear a mask. Be miserable. Blame others. Get vaccinated. Never go back to normal.

Your endless posting of liberal propaganda/spam is completely unnecessary. Stone is right when he deletes your crap off of his conservative forum.

Yeah, I'd call those deletions a Divine Intervention...that's why we thank God when he cleans up your messes.

watchman  posted on  2021-07-24   16:12:58 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: watchman, and Everyone (#20) (Edited)

watchman: I already know what you liberals think, Gatlin...

Do you, now?

Let’s see …

Get rid of whites

That’s atrociously asinine.

But if you believe it – then you tell me how liberals are getting “rid of whites.”

CAN YOU?

Lockdown the churches.

What – Only churches and only liberals?

You don’t know about all the many other lockdowns by, cough-cough, Republican governors?

All Democratic governors (24) issued lockdown and stay-at-home orders in their states, while 19 of the 26 Republican governors issued lockdown and stay-at-home orders stay- at-home orders in their states.

Wear a mask.

President Donald Trump offered his strongest endorsement for wearing face masks in public, tweeting that it is a “Patriotic” action to take during the coronavirus pandemic.

Ahem – Trump is no liberal thinker.

Be miserable.

Are Conservatives Really Happier Than Liberals?

Blame others.

Gatlin  posted on  2021-07-24   18:38:15 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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