My Reasons for Not Taking the Vaccine!

 

Dennis Edwards

I wanted to share with you briefly my reasons for not submitting to the voluntary vaccine campaign. I will write these one by one. Here is reason number one.

I have trusted God for my health my whole life and don’t see why I should stop now!

I have at various points in my life refused to follow the doctor’s perscription of pain killers and relaxatives. Instead I looked for the cause of my affliction, rather than just aim at the symptons. My sciatic nerve problem, my hernia problem, and my extreme heart pain problem were solved without medication except for one anti-inflammatory which I took for the sciatic nerve pain on the insistence of my loved ones. I took it more for their sakes than for mine.

I have found that by seeking God’s guidance in my affliction, that He has guided my thinking and has helped me when necessary change my habits and or life-sytle to the benefit of my health. When after 3 days of intense heart pains, as if someone was forcing a knife into my heart, I finally went to the hospital, what happened? After all the tests: urine, blood, x-ray, blood-presure, etc., what was the conclusion? I was seemingly in perfect health for my age. The doctor, however, diagnosed from the fact that I had seven children that the problem I had was stress related. She said the stress was causing my nervous system around my heart to react which was causing the pain. Therefore, she concluded that I needed to take a pain killer and a relaxant. 

But I responed, “Doctor, the pills are just aiming at the symptons of my problem, not the cause. I need to fix the cause.” “That’s true, Mr. Dennis, she replied, but you need to make sure you take your medicine.” “How can I reduce the stress, I asked?” She advised, “Watch the moments when you see your stress level building up and then avoid those moments, that would be one way. But make sure you take your medicine, also, until it runs out. If you have any more problems see a doctor.” I thanked her for her help, but as I left the hospital I put the perscription she had given me in the rubbish bin. 

I later researched on-line and found out that vigorous daily exercise would help reduce stress. The normal 15 minutes of sex-related exercise every day or every other day that I was getting was not sufficient. That’s when I started my daily jogging routine. Over time, I worked up from only being able to jog for 10 minutes, to being able to jog for 90 minutes or more. I finally kept to between 35-50 minutes a day or around 3 miles or 5 km. Both my hernia problem and my sciatic nerve problem were solved mainly with rest without medication. Being self employed enabled me to take the rest I needed and my dear wife was able to take over my work responsibilities.

My wife has reminded me that at the same time I started exercising that I also started to use more praise in my life. I started to accompany my running by listening to Becky Hardling 64 recommended songs of praise and worship. She has written a small booklet called “The 30-Day Praise Challenge.” I read the book and incorporated praise and thanksgiving into my life. I filled my mind with the 64 songs she recommended. Those positive songs of praise greatly improved my spiritual state and well-being which no doubt was a help in eliminating much of the psychological stress from my life. Praise has powerful pyschological power. My exercise routine was accompanied by my praise and thanksgiving music which I carried with me in my mobile phone. My body was destressing through the exercise and my mind was destressing through the Godly songs of praise. 

My wife and I had earlier on decided not to vaccines our children after the research we had done on the subject. You can do your own research. However, Google has changed the search algorithms for vaccines and it is much more difficult to find opinions that do not support vaccine taking. Robert Kennedy’s organization Children’s Health Defense found here: childrenshealthdefense.org may be a good place to look to get an alternative opinion. Del Bigtree on his site thehighwire.com also delves deeply into the vaccine question having had a personal incident with his son as a result of a vaccine he was given as a child. These people are not fanatics. The are concerned parents and legal adivsors. 

My children were not vaccinated and when they started school were allowed to attend because as parents we stated we did not vaccinate because of “questions of conscience,”or religious beliefs. Our beliefs were not trampled on by the local school administration. Even though vaccines were required by the school system, the law in the country that we lived in was that vaccination was not obligatory. It was kind of a “Catch 22” situation, where most people believe the vaccines were manditory. They were and are manditory, but if you have convictions and know your rights you can make a legal stand against them.  

Some years earlier in another country, my oldest son cut his hand on a glass bottle. The ligament between his thumb and first finger was almost cut. After the emergency doctors stitched his hand these two young doctors can out to me with much enthusiam asking me, “What have you done that your son’s blood is so healthy?” They had never seen anything like it. At that moment, all I could think of was that it was our natural food diet. We didn’t use white suger or white sugar products, nor white flour or white rice. We ate lots of fruits and vegatables and not an enormous amount of meat and followed the Biblical advise concerning our meat and fish alimentation: no pig meat, only sheep, goat, or cow; no seafood, only fish with fins and scales.  

The doctors didn’t seem convinced that “diet” alone could be the source of the healthy blood and walked away with a puzzled look on their faces. It was only later as we drove home that it came to me that the fact that my son was not vaccinated was probably the prime factor in his blood health. Two days later in an unrelated incident, our home was raided and our seven children taken from us by force. We had never seen a “Child Welfare Officer” before. She ordered the police to take the children. She held a court order against us for “child abuse” and “child neglect.” The children were being “home-schooled” and therefore delinquent to the mandatory school attendance rules. As she marched the children out to the police vehicle she snarled at me, “And the first thing we will do is vaccinate them.” 

Why people get so upset when you don’t conform to their rules and opinions is beyond me, especially in countries where the freedom to think and act differently is frequently defended by the government. The government supports the freedom to act or think differently as long as the thinking and acting differently is in accordance to the way they want you to think and act differently. Eventually, our children were returned to us as both the criminal case and the civil case against us were found to be unsupported. In fact, our “home-schooling” became a point that the local government tried to prove was neglect. They forced the Constitutional Court to rule on “home-schooling” and the court decided that home-schooling was within the confinds of the law for obligatory schooling. Our children were not being neglected, they were being home-schooled and now the legal system had sided in favour of “home-schooling.” 

As you can see by those testimonies, I just don’t follow whatever everyone else is doing. I don’t follow the propaganda spouted on the daily news. I dig deeper and try to come to an educated decision on any given subject. I don’t just accept the opinions being given in the news or on a television program or serial, or daily talk show. I find most of that to be just plain and simple “brain washing.” The fact that I have lived abroad in different countries has helped me to realize the power that television has to form public opinion. As a foreigner, you are not so easily convinced by the local propaganda.  

During the time of the Vietnam War, I refused the order to report for military service. I was not being a coward and was ready to go to jail for my stance against the war. Not only was I following my own personal research on the war and the government's war hungry economy, but even further, I was following the voice of conscience. I was follwing that still small voice that speaks to us that we often have a hard time listening to. It is that same voice today that is telling me “don’t take the vaccine.” I believe it’s God’s voice and that’s my first reason for not taking the vaccine. Like Martin Luther said before the Diet of Worms in 1521 "to go against conscience is neither right or safe." 

When Policarp was asked to deny his faith and worship the Roman gods or he would be tortured and killed. How did he respond? "86 years I have served my Lord, and He has never done me harm. How can I blaspheme my King and Saviour now?" He refused to go against his conscience. And so he went to a cruel death by his Roman persecutors.

In a similar vein I say, "I have trusted God for my health for 72 years and don’t see why I should stop now? It is neither right nor safe to go against conscience."

To go to part two follow the link: https://fightforyourfaith.blogspot.com/2021/06/more-reasons-why-i-did-not-take-vaccine.html