{"id":413959,"date":"2021-04-12T11:58:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T15:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=413959"},"modified":"2021-04-12T11:58:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T15:58:24","slug":"maybe-a-vaccine-is-part-of-gods-plan-pete-buttigieg-addresses-vaccine-hesitancy-among-white-evangelical-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maybe-a-vaccine-is-part-of-gods-plan-pete-buttigieg-addresses-vaccine-hesitancy-among-white-evangelical-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Maybe A Vaccine Is Part Of God\u2019s Plan\u2019: Pete Buttigieg Addresses Vaccine Hesitancy Among \u2018White Evangelical Christians\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmaybe-a-vaccine-is-part-of-gods-plan-pete-buttigieg-addresses-vaccine-hesitancy-among-white-evangelical-christians%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=413959&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1476.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>According to a March poll by The Associated Press-NORG Center for Public Affairs Research, \u201c40% of white evangelical Protestants said they likely won\u2019t get vaccinated, compared with 25% of all Americans, 28% of white mainline Protestants and 27% of nonwhite Protestants.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-vaccine-skepticism-white-evangelicals-us-32898166bbb673ad87842af24c8daefb\">reported<\/a> in early April that, \u201cThe findings have aroused concern even within evangelical circles. The National Association of Evangelicals, which represents more than 45,000 local churches, is part of a new coalition that will host events, work with media outlets and distribute various public messages to build trust among wary evangelicals.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg spoke with CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper on Sunday, and responded to this poll by arguing that the COVID-19 vaccine may be \u201cpart of God\u2019s plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cA recent poll showed that almost three in 10 white evangelical Christians said that they will definitely not get vaccinated,\u201d Jake Tapper said. \u201cThat\u2019s the second highest group in the country refusing to get vaccinated behind Republicans.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cYou\u2019ve been outspoken on issues of your personal faith, otherwise I wouldn\u2019t normally bring this up,\u201d Tapper continued. \u201cWhy do you think it is that so many of your fellow white evangelical Christians are reluctant to be vaccinated and what\u2019s your message to them?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.7358490566038\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pete Buttigieg tells evangelical Christians that \u201ca vaccine is part of God\u2019s plan.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3Sx3KsLr4R\">pic.twitter.com\/3Sx3KsLr4R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Haworth (@ighaworth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighaworth\/status\/1381624333529980929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cYou know, sometimes I\u2019ve heard people I care about saying, you know, \u2018If I\u2019m faithful, God\u2019s going to take care of me,\u2019\u201d Buttigieg responded. \u201cAnd I guess what I would hope that they might consider is that maybe a vaccine is part of God\u2019s plan for how you\u2019re going to take care of yourself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Buttigieg then acknowledged that his opinion would be unlikely to persuade evangelical Christians to receive a vaccination, arguing that pastors should be encouraging their communities instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn the end, I have to admit that it\u2019s unlikely that an official like me is going to be persuasive to somebody who maybe doesn\u2019t feel like Washington has been speaking to them for a long time,\u201d Buttigieg admitted. \u201cBut this is where faith leaders can make such a difference. Pastors, I mean the very word \u2018pastor,\u2019 the idea of pastoral care is about supporting those who look to you for guidance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSo I hope anybody who is looking after a community of people, including a faith community, will consider ways to help guide them toward steps that can protect them and protect those around them,\u201d Buttigieg concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Buttigieg has a history of using religion as a political platform, often while simultaneously criticizing conservatives. During the presidential campaign, Buttigieg accused the Republican Party of cloaking itself \u201cin the language of religion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><span>The Republican Party likes to cloak itself in the language of religion. We should call hypocrisy, and for a party that associates with Christianity to say it is OK to suggest that God would smile on the division of families at the hands of federal agents, that God would condone putting children in cages has lost all claim to ever use religion language again,\u201d Buttigieg <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2019\/06\/pete-buttigieg-religion\/592897\/\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> in June 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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