Vivek Ramaswamy Is On the Rise. So Are Christian Nationalist Attacks on His Religion

[Eugene]

Source: Rolling Stone

Vivek Ramaswamy Is On the Rise. So Are Christian Nationalist Attacks on His Religion

Tim Dickinson
Fri, July 28, 2023 at 10:25 AM EDT

Vivek Ramaswamy is getting a hard look by Republicans willing to entertain alternatives to Donald Trump, especially as Ron DeSantis continues to flounder. The 37-year-old biotech entrepreneur has surged into third place in several national polls, ahead of prominent Republicans like Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, and Tim Scott.

Ramaswamy is also a practicing Hindu, and though he has been campaigning as an anti-abortion religious conservative, his non-Christian faith is a major stumbling block for many in the GOP’s evangelical base. He’s been on a charm offensive with these evangelical audiences, but the outreach appears to be backfiring, at least among the Christian nationalist set.

Hank Kunneman is a pro-Trump pastor, self-styled “prophet,” and election denier who recently challenged anyone who believes that Biden won in 2020 should “reexamine your theology.”

Kunneman devoted much of his sermon at the Lord of Hosts Church in Omaha, Nebraska, last Sunday to blasting the GOP’s flirtation with Ramaswamy as an insult to heaven. “We are in danger as a country,” Kunneman said, hectoring to the members of Generation Z and millennials who “like this ‘new young guy.’”

“If he does not serve the Lord Jesus Christ,” Kunneman warned, “you will have a fight with God.”

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/vivek-ramaswamy-rise-christian-nationalist-142504368.html

[Ocelot II]

1. The GOP will never accept a brown-skinned non-Christian, no matter how right-wing

and Trumpish his policies seem to be. They are all in for white supremacy and Ramaswamy just doesn't qualify.

[peppertree]

4. Yep. They want Thor.

The god of Acheth and Painth.

[tanyev]

2. Because they'll only accept faithful devout Christians, like Donald Trump.

[viva la]

3. When are these non-white-evangelical GOPers going to realize--

They will never be accepted by the White Nationalist party.
They will be used and exploited, but never accepted.

[Deuxcents]

5. These Christian Nationalist will never understand

The United States is not their church. The oath all of us take is to the Constitution, not to any person or god.

[QED]

6. Maybe the IRS should use some of their "new" funding to investigate churches engaged in politicking.

Or do they still do that? Imagine the outcry!

[CurtEastPoint]

7. Mirthful Hank, planning the demise of a brown non-krisschin. I looked up slimeball and found him

(PS: Nice brows, bro)

[ShazzieB]

11. Wow, he definitely waxes! 😁

Not that there's anything wrong with that, OF COURSE, but I'm sure that would not be considered properly "manly" by a lot of his co-religionists.

[anciano]

8. "God has no religion." --- Mahatma Gandhi

🙏

[Raven123]

9. Let them fight it out. Get the popcorn