People who have this take often feel similar about medicine, vaccines, etc. Natural remedies, essential oils, or just good old God is punishing you if you get sick. (A lot of them are hypocrites too, as they’ll drop some of this stuff to save their own lives).
Iirc, the way to get cats to enjoy water is to get them used to it early, and to make it fairly warm so it’s not a shock to them. Like getting in a jacuzzi instead of a cold pool.