America is seeing vaccine mandates descending upon several states, from to receive the COVID-19 vaccine to a strict, widespread ruling. This would be effective in uplifting vaccination rates — if religious exemptions were not being .
Trevor Noah examined this “hot new trend” during Tuesday night’s Daily Show, showing news footage from across the country of church leaders , including a pastor offering “religious exemption” and a “self-described evangelist” accepting payments for exemption letters.
“The question used to be: ‘Do you have a sincere religious belief?’ And now it’s: ‘Do you have a PayPal account?'” says Noah.
“The reason that people need to work so hard to cheat the system with fake religious beliefs is that basically every actual religion has told its followers to get thine ass vaccinated,” says Noah, before going on to cite examples of religious leaders like the Pope and the Dalai Lama encouraging people to get the vaccine.
And yet, the exemptions requests are still happening across states and sectors. In Washington D.C., are requesting exemptions. Elsewhere, are seeking religious exemption from the vaccine.
Noah also cites NBA player , stopping him from playing for his team until he follows through with a vaccine.
“Oh man, poor ,” Noah says. Indeed.
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