Narrative Part:
Personally, I was brought up in a family that had strong adherence to the Orthodox faith. I was blessed with a son to whom I opted to take him to the nearest private daycare. He is now three and a half years old, and at the daycare Centre, he is currently included in the vaccination program being administered. Luckily, he has had all his vaccinations except the flu vaccine. Notably, I had embraced the practice of medical vaccination because I had not been enlightened enough on what the doctrines of the Orthodox Church was saying.
With time, I managed to learn about the contradiction that existed between what I believed in and those of the Russian Orthodox faith relating to medical vaccination. Based on that insight, I must be grateful to various blog sites and subscribers who were willing to speak openly to me about vaccination, and why they felt it was a sinful practice. The implication is that based on the doctrines of the Russian Orthodox faith, vaccination was considered as one of the sinful acts, and the members of such a religion were never allowed to exercise them.
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After such an encounter about vaccination, I decided to end all the vaccination schedules that ware to be administered to my son. This is because I came to learn that I had been violated the doctrines of the Orthodox Church by going against the doctrines that I had pledged to adhere to. Nevertheless, at the age of two, my son was fully vaccinated. In 2015, during the routine wellness checkup in the country, I had already developed a different mindset towards vaccine administration. As a result, we decided to postpone the vaccines because my son was not feeling well due to getting a common cold and the regular doctor was not working there was a different doctor. The intention was to skip the vaccination practice that had been scheduled because I wanted to be true to my faith.
I was raised in a family with strong Russian Orthodox faith. Within the family, my most significant role model was my third great-granduncle, who was a monk living most of his life at the Monastery. He came to the US after WWII, and he always wondered about his family since then. He has been searching for his family for a long time, and at the age of 99, he found his family in 1989. He immediately invited my family to the US and gave directions where he built Monastery and showed churches around. We lived inside the church where my mother worked in the kitchen, and my father was a janitor. My family and I were going to church daily for service, and we prayed daily.
Triggering event:
My grandmother had been admitted in the hospital following an illness, and with time her condition was getting worse. While nursing her at the hospital, I started praying rigorously every day for her to recover quickly. Throughout my life, I was always close to my grandmother and I was never at ease when she was in such a critical condition. I remember the first time I looked into my son’s eyes. I felt this deep bond and love towards him, I felt responsible for his wellbeing, and I wanted to be the best mother I possibly could. So I looked meticulously for best pediatricians in town. When the due date came for immunization, my only fear was, that my son would feel pain, but it needed to be done. I never questioned vaccines, as I also was vaccinated myself and I knew that my son would be protected from diseases, so I went along with it.
Last summer I had a chance to meet a wonderful person, who is a mother of 3 kids, at a playground. She is also Russian Orthodox from Russia; we had a long and pleasant talk about God and how grateful we are to raise our kids with God’s supervision. We kept on seeing each other every week and one day we came across an immunizations subject. She didn’t vaccinate her kids, so I asked her why. Her answer shocked me—vaccines have blood inside, we shall not ingest other blood in our body, as it was sinful. I was speechless. I never knew this fact before. I went home a little after this and started my research, an initiative that confirmed my fears.
I became weary, though in mind I was aware of the positive impacts that vaccination had on my child. By embracing the benefits of vaccination, I would illustrate the lack of trust I have in God, and that would be detrimental to my faith. Exodus 23:25 “Worship the Lord your God, and his blessing will be your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you”. If God created us and our body as a Holy temple, we must keep it this way. A vaccine isn’t made by God; man makes it. I spent hours that day reading the Bible, praying to God and asking for forgiveness. Based on my understanding of the scriptures in Bible vaccination are violating several commandments. It is a sin of disobedience and idolatry that brings on illnesses. John5:14. God is my creator, my father, my savior, who gave his life to purchase freedom for everyone. God has a plan for everyone I chose him as my savior. I decided to stop all vaccinations for my son because it contradicts my religious belief
