Why are Protestants against vaccination?

Still, white evangelical Protestants and religious "nones" are somewhat less likely than members of other religious groups to support a vaccine ... Large majorities of U.S. read more

The Protestant Reformation began in 1517 with the posting of Martin Luther’s theses. The first vaccine was used by Edward Jenner in 1798. Therefore, I think it is safe to say that Protestantism is not inherently opposed to vaccinations. Some Protestants are, of course, against vaccination. read more

Methods. To gain insight into how orthodox protestant parents decide on vaccination, what arguments they use, and the consequences of their decisions, we conducted an in-depth interview study of both vaccinating and non-vaccinating orthodox protestant parents selected via purposeful sampling. read more