They’re the ones wearing the masks
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I don't disagree that being involved in church does not necessarily equate to a strong relationship with God. I didn't make that claim.
What I said was that I know there are people who are Christians, not just in name but also in personal practice, who chose to get vaccinated and honestly thought that was the right thing to do both for themselves and for others.
These are people whose homes I have been in from as far back as my young childhood and whose routines I have witnessed and experienced from sleepovers with their kids that included everything from bedtime bible stories and prayers to morning family devotionals.
Set all that aside because I'm not trying to "prove" anyone else's relationship with God but to illustrate that the people who chose the vax are (I think) a diverse group. I can add that I'm not someone with any sort of active personal relationship with God. I make very little effort to read the Bible or pray until I'm in a personal crisis. I never go to church and even disliked it when I had to go every Sunday and Wednesday as a child and yet I distrusted the vaccines intuitively and took a hard pass. Was that God's protection or my own instincts? I have no idea but it seems pretty unfair to me that God would offer me - a lazy, disinterested "Christian" pretty much in name only some sort of extra protections He didn't provide for others. That doesn't align with my idea of who God is or with my understanding of free will.
So, I stand by my position that it is not accurate for people to make generalizations that people who are vaxxed are ______ and those who are unvaxxed are _______. (Unless you want to fill in the blanks maybe with "deceived" and "fortunate."
I think a lot of it has to do with people and their doctors. Do these people who took the vax believe everything their doctor tells them. Many do. If so, they have no basis for arguing or decided to "disobey". The doctor knows best. Period. So, religion doesn't really enter into it. I had dinner with a couple last week and he is an absolute genius who has just retired as a computer engineer, working on projects that most of us will never even hear about. How about the "semantic web"? Anyway, they both were vaxxed. I was stunned. The wife said, "My doctor told me I had an underlying condition so I should definitely get it." I looked at her in shock. They are so smart!! How did this happen?? Well, there you have it. "Muh doctor..."