America is a secular nation in an increasingly secular world. Such is the “conventional wisdom.” Maybe that is true as a general trend, but faith still matters for quite a large segment of the population. A fact the secular world has noticed, and regularly exploits to its benefit. Which is why in the war against “vaccine hesitancy,” the vaccine stakeholders (Big Government, Big Tech, Big Pharma, and investors) are recruiting clergy and churches as marketing allies to increase vaccine uptake.
Vaccine stakeholders are counting on Christian leaders to convince their flocks to take the vaccine, usually casting it, implicitly or explicitly, as a “moral duty” to protect others. For Christian institutions, there is a lot of downside risk to this approach. As the current alarm over myocarditis in young, vaccinated men makes clear, we don’t really know much about the effects of these vaccines. These vaccines would not be the first to be withdrawn in history. There have been previous vaccine disasters that even affected presidential races. Any Christian organization or leader lending moral authority to encourage taking these vaccines will end up sharing the blame for anything that goes wrong. Not only in this world, but also the next.
https://orthodoxreflections.com/the-dangers-of-religiously-based-marketing-for-covid-vaccines/