If your employer is not denying exemptions, they can make this easy as “check the box.” You seem to indicate that your employer doesn’t really want the mandates. If this is the case, the employer can make it very easy on employees. The fight occurs when the employer really wants to impose the mandates and then they fight the employees and deny exemptions.
In crafting a letter, the standard is YOUR personally held sincere beliefs. So you have to articulate what you might believe.
Some Christians are opposed to the use of the HEK 293 (Pfizer and Moderna) and PER.C6 (J&J) fetal cell lines in either their development or research and testing stages.
Be prepared for the “BUT BUT TYLENOL!!!” line if you go this route. I think that you can make a meaningful distinction between Tylenol, which long predated the cell lines, and these vaccines, which were developed and tested in their earliest stages with the fetal lines.
For example, there is a distinction between the use of fetal lines in the development and testing of new drugs, that isn’t the same when psychos take existing drugs and then test them on fetal lines. The later isn’t developed from or tested on the fetal lines in the process of developing the new drug.
Some Christians are also opposed to the mRNA process for vaccines altogether. An argument can be made that only God has the right and the power to manipulate mRNA and instructing your body to do anything on the cellular level. One can make a meaningful distinction between an attenuated whole cell virus vaccine and one that used mRNA.
Some Christians argue that this is a precursor to the Mark of the Beast.
Other Christians can argue from the spheres of authority.
It all depends on what you believe.
Yes, I'm already hearing through the grapevine at my place of work that religious accommodations are already being made. I just don't want to screw it up by being too wordy in my request. But bottom line, our CEO put it out that he does not want to lose any employees over this so I'm thinking they will accommodate - so long as they can "check the box" with the jackboot government that is forcing this nonsense on all of us.
So my letter will be kept simple and hopefully I'll avoid the traps. I am simply going to state that my deeply held religious beliefs preclude me from taking these particular vaccines and that I am asking for accommodation - with the understanding that I'll probably have to submit to weekly COVID tests.
Believe it or not, even though I work in NYC, I have never to date had a COVID test! I keep hearing horror stories about the nose swap so I'll see if the saliva tests will be adequate.