Are Vaccines Simply a Modern Religion?
Has the Belief in Vaccines Become A Cruel Anti-Christian Religion?
Attorney Aaron Siri poses a thought-provoking question: “Ever hear ‘I believe in cars’ or ‘I believe in tools’?” Most adults would likely answer no. Yet many people readily say they “believe in vaccines.” Mr. Siri argues that this phrase is revealing because the acceptance of vaccine manufacturers’ claims often requires faith—belief—which is why challenges to such contentions frequently provoke emotional rather than logical responses.
Attorney Aaron Siri poses a thought-provoking question: “Ever hear ‘I believe in cars’ or ‘I believe in tools’?” Most adults would likely answer no. Yet many people readily say they “believe in vaccines.” Mr. Siri argues that this phrase is revealing because the acceptance of vaccine manufacturers’ claims often requires faith—belief—which is why challenges to such contentions frequently provoke emotional rather than logical responses.
Against this backdrop, most Americans agree that the First Amendment protects the right of individuals to practice their faith free from interference by state or federal authorities. Yet New York State, a jurisdiction that strongly endorses vaccination, has undertaken a highly publicized and unwarranted campaign to pressure Amish communities into permitting the vaccination of their children. Opponents argue that this effort, much like the public health initiatives championed by Dr. Anthony Fauci during the COVID-19 pandemic, elevates adherence to vaccination policies above deeply held religious convictions, creating a conflict between governmental mandates and faith-based beliefs.
Toward the end of 2025, the United States Supreme Court vacated a Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision enabling New York State to persecute the Amish for refusing to allow the injection of vaccine products in violation of their religious beliefs. The Supreme Court remanded the case of Miller v. McDonald for the Second Circuit to reconsider its “illiberal and unconscionable decision.” The Supreme Court’s decision is sound for several reasons.
First, New York’s vaccine mandate substantially interferes with the religious development of Amish children. To wit, even the Second Circuit deemed “[t]rue” the claim that petitioners face “two impossible options: inject their children with vaccines … against their religious beliefs, or forego educating their children in a [school], requiring them to sacrifice a central religious practice.” Government cannot substantially interfere with a child’s religious upbringing unless the state’s action satisfies strict scrutiny.
Second, New York’s vaccine program is not neutral and generally applicable. Even though the law at issue provides an opt-out mechanism, it only applies if a doctor says there could be a health problem rather than a religious objection. In essence, New York “prohibits religious conduct while permitting secular conduct that undermines the government’s asserted interests in a similar way.” New York’s approach contradicts prevailing case law. Constitutional case law indicates that religious objections by a student or a parent on behalf of a student to vaccination pose no greater risk to the state’s interests than an objection on medical grounds.
Despite the impossible options confronting the Amish parents, and despite the likelihood that the state treats secular objections to the state statute more favorably than religious objections, the Second Circuit, once again, has ruled against the Amish even though the 168 unvaccinated Amish children, at issue, are far healthier than vaccinated American children.
A random sample of 168 non-Amish children shows that Amish children would likely suffer 31 cases of environmental allergies, 15 cases of ADHD, 10 cases of asthma, 9 cases of food allergies, and 4 cases of ASD (autism spectrum disorder). The Second Circuit prefers to vindicate the state’s beliefs even though that would mean that Amish children—who are currently free from chronic health conditions including immune system dysregulation—would be subject to the same health risks that currently plague vaccinated children in New York.
While it seems clear that vaccine regimes advance the risk of immune dysregulation, such regimes are furthered by deception. Consistent with that contention, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. noted that an examination of Dr. Fauci’s diary indicates he deceived the American people regarding a raft of claims, including the efficacy of masks, vaccines, and other measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The biggest surprise in the 1,141 pages of Anthony Fauci’s diary is that Dr. Fauci fell ill after getting the COVID-19 vaccine. Fauci wrote in his diary that he suffered a pulmonary infarction, meaning his lungs lost their supply of blood and oxygen, six months after getting the Moderna vaccine in December 2020.
“He got the vaccine to tell the Americans it's safe. And then when he got an adverse event that could have been related to the vaccine, he didn't tell anybody about it.” These events support two inferences. First, Dr. Fauci engaged in what can be called “an inexcusable deception.” Second, this evidence raises an inference that the COVID-19 vaccine had become an article of faith. Consistent with this pattern, it appears that the Second Circuit Court of Appeals snubs evidence showing vaccines cause real harm.
Facts that undermine the Second Circuit Court’s analysis abound. Indeed, Christians and non-Christians alike should devour Aaron Siri’s book, Vaccines, Amen: The Religion of Vaccines. Based on a decade of experience interrogating the world’s leading vaccinologists and prosecuting over a hundred lawsuits against health agencies, Siri shows that common claims about vaccines are often contrary to the evidence.
Despite the available evidence, Amish parents are learning that vaccine ideology is little more than sound and fury that oppresses the healthy in the name of “science.” This approach yields huge profits for pharmaceutical companies and painful experiences for those who refuse to share New York’s faith-based ideology.
The First Amendment of the Constitution states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . .” The Amish community in New York State needs the United States Supreme Court to intervene to prevent government power from being used to force the Amish community—the healthiest unvaccinated control group left on Earth—to take vaccines, because nothing threatens New York State's cruel regime like living proof that you and I rarely need vaccines.