According to Title VII the employer has to provide reasonable acommodations for your sincerely held religious beliefs.
If you have a sincerely held religious beliefs that do not allow you to get the vaccine, you are already exempt. Your employer must provide reasonable acommodation as long as it's not an undue burden to the employer.
If that applies to you then simply tell your employer that you are exempt because of your sincerely held religious beliefs.
Don't say an iota more! Nowhere in the law does it say that you need to write an essay explaining your religious beliefs. Your religious beliefs don't need to be part of an organized religion. They don't even need to be consistent. As long as you invoke your religious exemption they have to acommodate you. Think of it like talking to a cop. Anything you say can and will be used against you. The only way they can disqualify you is if you tell them that your religious belief is not sincere, or that it's grounded in politics or science.
Now, my advice is not to mention acommodations explicitly. By telling them that you are exempt, the implication is that you want to be exempt from the vaccine requirement. That is your acommodation.
They might or might not discuss acommodations with you. They might want you to wear a mask instead or take a weekly covid test. This part is a negotiation. Do those acts conflict with a sincerely held religious belief? Only you know that.
(post is archived)