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Rights and responsibilities: Some protesters feel wearing a mask or having a vaccine impedes their free will, but religious people defer to the will of God as a rule. Does God not want us to protect one another, wonders our columnist? Photo by Rodger Bosch/AFP

Vaccine conundrums to keep one up at night

Why do religious leaders feel no compunction to harm their followers, when they could ‘pray for the destruction of a satanic vaccine’ instead?

Johann van der Westhuizen