- How do I know that somethingbad isn't going to happen

to me or my family with the vaccine?

What would you say toreassure those people?

- Well here's a greatopportunity for Christians to say

let's really look at the truth.

- [Lorie] NIH director andnoted Christian author,

Dr. Francis Collins,

and Southern Baptist Ethicspresident Russell Moore

want Christians to think twice

before believing unprovenanti-vaccine theories.

- There's an awful lot ofinformation floating around,

particularly in social media

that frankly doesn't represent truth,

it represents some certaindegree of fear and anxiety

and some just frank conspiraciesthat are pretty outrageous.

- [Lorie] For example,Collins, who led the effort

to sequence human DNA, explained

why the messenger RNAvaccines produced by Pfizer

and Moderna do not alter a person's DNA.

- The RNA lives a veryshort time in your body.

It is quickly degraded 'cause RNA has

a very short half-life.

So there's no residual ofwhat you've been injected with

beyond probably a few hours.

- [Lorie] They said somerumors could be seen as jokes,

except people believethem by refusing vaccines

or putting lives at risk.

- And no metals thatinteract with 5G towers

and implant ways that peoplecan know where you are

and track-- No, and Bill Gates

has not convinced us to put microchips

into the syringes (laughs).

I still think there arepeople who have heard that

and think maybe it could be true.

I really want to assure people,

these are wild, crazy ideas.

- [Lorie] Some vaccines,such as the ones made

by AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson,

use material derived from abortion,

but it's not what you might think.

- There's a cell line,which was derived in 1972,

a cell line that was derivedfrom a pregnancy termination

in Scandinavia, an elective abortion.

That cell line has beenused, it's called HEK293,

in many, many areas of biotechnology.

- [Lorie] And while abortionis certainly an issue of life,

so are vaccines.

According to CDC statistics,COVID-19 contributes

to a person's death each minute of the day

in the United States.

- But if you have alife-saving intervention,

and there's no otheralternative that is acceptable,

when we're talking about celllines derived 50 years ago,

there's no current use ofhuman fetal tissue at all

in any of these vaccines.

- [Lorie] In short, they advise Christians

to get vaccinated.

- If you're trying tosize up benefits and risks

and if you believe that Godgives us the opportunity

to act as His agents to try torelieve suffering and death,

then it seems like thisis a pretty good balance.

- Other Christian and politicalleaders are putting forth

pro-vaccine messages.

Evangelist Beth Mooreand former presidents,

Clinton, Bush, and Obama,volunteer to not only get

their COVID-19 vaccine as soon as possible

but to also do it on cameraas a way to prove it's safe

and encourage others to follow their lead.

Lorie Johnson, CBN news.

- And let me encourage you, don't listen

to the conspiracy theoriststhat somehow or other

this is going to be the mark of the beast.

Are you gonna get some kindof chip implanted into you?

All these things that are swirling around

aren't helping at all.

And I encourage people,please protect yourself.

If you're in one of the high risk groups,

absolutely, please get this vaccination.

For the rest of us who aren't,

we're probably going to have to wait

given the policies thatare being announced

as to who has access to a vaccine.

But let's protect ourselves.

Wouldn't it be wonderful tobe finally free from this?