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Toto · 01-15-2003, 01:47 AM

This church is made to order for parents who don't want to vaccinate their children for fear of autism or whatever.

Joining a church to evade vaccine

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It is not hard to get a religious exemption to the childhood immunization laws. To join the Congregation of Universal Wisdom, all it takes is a letter to this neat house in the Pine Barrens with the "Don't Tread on Me" flag above the mailbox and the sculptured spine on the garage, where Dr. Walter P. Schilling, a chiropractor, runs the congregation from his den.

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Dr. Schilling's church was founded in 1975 to defend "straight chiropractors" like himself, who regard Western medicine as paganism or Satanism. Now he claims 5,520 members, mostly families wanting to avoid vaccination, in 28 states.

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He founded the Congregation � which does pay taxes, he said � with three other chiropractors, who have since died. The most radical was Dr. Daniel J. Dalton, who preached that physicians were agents of Satan, pharmacy was witchcraft, and Western medicine evolved from worship of the Greek god Hermes and adopted his symbol, the caduceus, a snake-entwined winged wand.

beekay · 01-15-2003, 03:41 AM

And here you have it, the thing that sets us apart from animals: our refusal to fight for survival ...

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Asked how he would feel if a child with an exemption from him contracted polio, he answered: "If they're clear spinally, if the communication between God and the body is clear and they're working at 100 percent efficiency, then their resistance will be higher. Unless God wants them to leave. God does want people to leave eventually. I wouldn't feel I'd made a mistake. I'd feel it was part of God's will."

Just kick back and die if it's gawd's will ...

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