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Related: About this forumVivek Ramaswamy Is On the Rise. So Are Christian Nationalist Attacks on His Religion
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 GOPs evangelical base. Hes 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 GOPs 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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Ocelot II
(120,448 posts)and Trumpish his policies seem to be. They are all in for white supremacy and Ramaswamy just doesn't qualify.
peppertree
(22,850 posts)The god of Acheth and Painth.
tanyev
(44,426 posts)viva la
(3,745 posts)They will never be accepted by the White Nationalist party.
They will be used and exploited, but never accepted.
Deuxcents
(19,531 posts)The United States is not their church. The oath all of us take is to the Constitution, not to any person or god.
QED
(2,930 posts)Or do they still do that? Imagine the outcry!
CurtEastPoint
(19,143 posts)ShazzieB
(18,525 posts)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
(1,531 posts)🙏
Raven123
(5,969 posts)Response to Eugene (Original post)
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