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Like the traditional confessions, the new religion preaches that people when born into the world are corrupted and need the protection of a salutary institution—the church of medicine. According to the theology of medicine, newborn humans are weak and exposed to the impact of new devils: viruses, bacteria and microbes. For this reason, just after delivery, which takes place in the new religion’s new churches, individuals are subjected to new purification rituals (Gajewska 2012; Domańska 2005; Nowakowska 2010). As medical demonology stresses that the world is ruled by omnipresent demonic viruses, bacteria and genes that spell doom for people, the role of modern priests is to lead humanity toward salvation and eternal health. Thus, vaccinations substitute for baptism and introduce the newborns into the community of the medical church and protect them from the primal evil of infection. And as medicine accompanies individuals till the end of their lives, it constructs a feeling of absolute dependence (Otto 2004 [1999]) similar to that preached by religion
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