Religion As a Form of Eugenics

BOSTON - Sabrina Rahim doesn't practice any particular faith, but she had no problem signing a letter declaring that because of her deeply held religious beliefs, her 4-year-old son should be exempt from the vaccinations required to enter preschool.

She is among a small but growing number of parents around the country who are claiming religious exemptions to avoid vaccinating their children when the real reason may be skepticism of the shots or concern they can cause other illnesses. Some of these parents say they are being forced to lie because of the way the vaccination laws are written in their states.

This is great news for the earth!!!

Not only do we get rid of a bunch of religofascists because they aren't innoculated against various diseases, but in doing so we also reduce the birth rate, at least in the United States.

I have never understood where the Religofascists come up with this paranoia about innoculations. Its not like the cosmic entity they prey to called "Jesus" was pushing needles on the streets of Bethlehem back in the days he was allegedly alive.

But whatever. If there are fewer idiotic Religofascists out there so much the better.

And if you're not educated in what "eugenics" means in the title of this post, check out what dictionary.com has to say:

The study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, esp. by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics).

In more simple terms, eugenics is the biological act of getting the dumb ones out of the population before they can breed. This story suggests we might be on the road to something.