The Sacraments of Vaccinology

The provided text is an excerpt from a work titled "The Sacraments of Vaccinology" by Thomas Harrington, a retired professor of Hispanic studies and a Brownstone Fellow. Harrington explores the idea that deep-seated human desires for transcendence and community, previously fulfilled by organized religion, have been co-opted by secular movements, first by nationalism and now by scientism, specifically through vaccine culture. Drawing on the work of scholars like Ninian Smart and David Kertzer, the author argues that nationalist leaders historically utilized religious ritual and iconography to instill faith and subservience to the state, citing Mussolini’s Italy as a key example. The article then asserts that modern elites are employing similar tactics, using the language of sacrament and altruism—specifically citing the Pope and various bishops—to promote universal vaccination as a civic duty and a secular act of love and communal unity. Ultimately, the author suggests that this cultural effort to promote vaccine culture is a calculated, cynical attempt by globalists to enforce control by channeling the innate human desire for transcendence toward their own political ends.