Vaccines are truly proof of the mercy and kindness of our Creator. To refuse them outright is an insult to Him.
If you doubt me, you are probably too young to remember the pain, suffering and anxiety caused by polio. Ask your grandmothers about Polio.
The first symptoms of polio are the same as a cold, so parents would worry at every sniffle that their child would end up paralyzed or dead. Parents would keep their children inside through most of the summer (the contagious season), and children would get sick and die.
In each epidemic, tens of thousands of children (and some adults) would sicken and die, or become paralyzed for the rest of their life. Their entire household would be quarantined and the family could not go to the dead child’s funeral.
The heartbreak caused by this one disease was vast.
This disease was so horrible that the efforts of Drs. Salk and Sabin and thousands of others created a vaccine that was truly a miracle, comparable to any of the great miracles of the past.
Miracles should not be ignored or scoffed at, just because they are recent.
dear akuperma – I adored your satiric entry.