In the Netherlands, traditional Calvinists refuse vaccines and social distancing

In the #Netherlands, #Protestants make up around 16 percent of the population and a small group of traditional Calvinists are opposed to #vaccination and social distancing. Most of these believers, who live in a region known as the "Bible Belt", were never vaccinated as children and are opposed to the idea of injecting sickness into a healthy body. Despite surging case numbers, they continue to attend Sunday services without face masks. But amid some of the country's highest Covid-19 infection rates, some of them are starting to shift their mindset. Our regional correspondents report.
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[@mchelienviccow548]

Greetings from Indonesia!!!✨🤍 I am a Calvinist Protestant, my predecessors became Protestants thanks to missionaries from the Netherlands during the colonial period, and until now my family is still growing in the Calvinist sphere. By the way, in my area, Manado, until now the Calvinist church which is a Dutch heritage is still the majority here, because of the Dutch influence which is well intertwined with the natives.

[@eliasbairamis6069]

These churches are good! Praise God!

[@abhilashpaul9237]

Greetings to my Christian brethren in Netherlands.

[@abontichowdhury5104]

Unfortunately netherlands is atheist country..here over 50-60% of population doesn't believe in any religion

[@abontichowdhury5104]

@@oranjeboven6363 see in wikipedia...atheism has taken over christianity in netherlands.there are christians in netherlands but the number of atheist have overcome christians.... christians should try to proselyte those atheists in netherlands.

[@aluminiumknight4038]

@@abontichowdhury5104 no they shouldn't, the Dutch people are smart to leave religion behind

[@wg2654]

@@abontichowdhury5104 its wise to respect other peoples' beliefs if you expect others to respect yours... and proselyting people for not having your same faith is a ridiculous idea, grow up we're not in the middle ages

[@YourBoyJohnny94]

@@aluminiumknight4038And because the Dutch are abandoning Christianity is why they’re getting invade by the barbaric Muslim horde.

[@esterhaerani]

Our church never stopped onsite Sunday service during pandemic, and thanks Jesus that we all are fine.

[@emadintro7641]

Wonderful people. A few who have guarded their culture and who are not morally corrupted.

[@innovationhq8230]

Good to see Reformed people standing against the abomination of vaccination!

[@jordyE..]

Liberty of conscience.. If you want it go get it, if you don’t want it don’t get it..

[@wizardmongol4868]

freedom doesnt apply to you or your reasons

[@bigfel3240]

How do they endanger others if the others got their wonderful vacations?

[@kxenia7852]

Bravo Dutch people! Well done❤🙏🕊

[@louispitagno9422]

Good for them. They have their rights and they have their culture

[@marcustuliuscicero4605]

Calvinism is not Dutch culture at all. It is literally Neo-Judaism.

[@gladys4246]

They're the ones with common sense. Good for them.

[@gladys4246]

@Pietje Puk says the one with no common sense whatsoever

[@gladys4246]

@Pietje Puk you have no idea what i would and would not allow for my children. you fool. quit trolling online and get a real job.

[@szymonbaranowski8184]

it's not common sense it's sticking to old humane well tested minimum most of things humans invented was a blind experiment on themselves, nie it takes scale of whole humanity with permanent outcomes for whole humanity in past if you saw a person with bald head tattoos piercing black leather jacket iron boots and tropical animal or clown makeup you were not getting close to them feeling disgusting and lack of comfort now being freak of nature is trendy something is deeply wrong with this world and this generation is completely taken away from real parenting and common sense education it gonna get much worse before it gets better

[@Zoeyw1]

I understand and agree especially on the vaccination( but not religious grounds though) My body my Choice, the state should back off

[@uganda_mn397]

My body my choice, where have i heard that 😃

[@Tyronejizz]

Im not christian but im Dutch and it wasn't only these people against vacination ive met alot of people who agree that experimental vacinations are bad

[@uganda_mn397]

I think it is ok but it obviously isn't meccesarry

[@Nicolas-fd4wy]

Very based! May God bless you my dutch brothers in Christ!

[@zugabdu1]

The argument against vaccination sounds like it would be an argument against all medical treatment.

[@zealotzealot4848]

No

[@polasboek]

Free choice for all.

[@szymonbaranowski8184]

and full extend of responsibility for own choices

[@Ilovethebush]

too much biased and negatively judgmental word choice in this report. words like ‘radical stance’ instead of simply saying ‘this stance.’

[@veraivakic]

Geweldig, groetjes uit Utrecht :-)

[@szymonbaranowski8184]

I love them already!!! ❤️❤❤

[@abdisamadhassan47]

And they are in the Netherlands, of all places

[@minirinrin99]

Me parece muy bien. Ojalá se expandan en número y poder sobre su PROPIO territorio. Es el pueblo y cultura tradicional de Países Bajos.

[@CRACKBONE7317]

​@Slavic Melodies I remember reading somewhere that they have the highest birthrate of any community in the country. Probably because they've all got 7 kids. So, it's not an unrealistic idea.

[@szymonbaranowski8184]

​@@CRACKBONE7317 Slavs could learn....

[@patrick-bu3eq]

They are the future of the Netherlands lol. They will be like the native Americans one day haha.@@CRACKBONE7317

[@timcarr6401]

And shortly after the narrative of the jab is proven to be bogus. The Calvinists, though a tiny minority were right all along.

[@charlievankesteren8756]

I can't help but wonder if August Moens, the theologian in this video, is still alive.

[@ayutonk2127]

I prefer calvinist white dutch to the conservatives of that other religion (you know which one) lol

[@joffryvangrondelle]

Temple?? In in The Netherlands we do not use that word at all, we use church. The word temple is often used in France in the protestant communities and sometimes also in the USA.

[@danistanneveld880]

Im Dutch and this is not in our news lol, we know we have some extreme Christians haha.

[@theoldpilgrimway9129]

in Korea, we do have extreme chrisitians too, but not all Christians behave that way.

[@demoe5676]

Did you already booked for your 4th booster shot????

[@danistanneveld880]

@@demoe5676 Dutch government said only people with immune problems needs 3 shots. Dutch people did enough for covid last 2 years, nobody is wearing a mask here.

[@Claire-sj9mp]

@@demoe5676 Do you know if the vaccine is mandatory for any group of people in the Netherlands?

[@bigfel3240]

Dutch Reformed.

[@MarkEliasGrant]

The Lord gave us SCIENCE. IF they don't believe in medicine they shouldn't take a polio vaccine either.

[@nr1785]

Punishment or chastisement is not the only reason for sickness.

[@kundalinimind1]

What was the fatality rate in the unvaccinated?

[@user-sc2pf1yn9y]

He has wisdom

[@caedmonnoeske3931]

No one calls it "The Temple"🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ It's called the "Kirk" (church).

[@empirical_blade6926]

We in the Orthodox church call the church building temple

[@lienbijs1205]

Kerk, not kirk.

[@maestoso47]

But you can’t use technology to help yourself?

[@avidmisreader]

If people a greed to sufficient preventative measures past incubation period, for over a year and even now with the delta, other variants, viroids could not spread. Even the most effective vaccines are a much inferior solution to contain spread (adding complexity for a false sense of security) and should be offered sparingly to people at high risk from infection and low risk from side-effects. From mutation, reasoning around limiting antibiotics largely holds for antivirals.

[@davidedeblasi4669]

Virologist?

[@szymonbaranowski8184]

not with so fast spreading disease it became neverending because vax interfered with natural lifecycle of virus now it will mutate in walking incubators forever until it breaks their fake immunity

[@jonathanedwardgibson]

Simply speaking Dutch spews spittle on your nieghbor.

[@jamieparry6420]

Belgian?

[@szymonbaranowski8184]

it's doesn't sound like a joke if you like me remember polish public TV teaching that spelling letter p gives you a deadly COVID or it sounds like a double joke

[@user-sc2pf1yn9y]

💉= Eternal separation from God

[@misterfunnybones]

The first century fairytale strikes again.

[@ZiraRisasi]

Fix your pfp man

[@mahlatsimoroka1500]

It's not a fairytale

[@aluminiumknight4038]

@Slavic Melodies foolish dreams...