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JD Vance recently told a packed college arena that he hopes his Hindu wife would someday convert to Christianity, thrusting into the spotlight the deeply sensitive challenges facing interfaith couples.

Experts who have counseled hundreds of couples who don’t share religious beliefs say the key is respect for each other’s faith traditions and having honest discussions about how to raise their children. Most agree that pressuring or even hoping the other would convert could prove damaging to a relationship, and all the more so for a couple in the public arena.

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[–] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 48 points 2 weeks ago

JD Vance?

The guy who used to benefit from SNAP and now denounces it? That asshole?

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 45 points 2 weeks ago

Haha what an asshole

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 44 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

🎶 Usha

You don't have to wear that cross tonight 🎶

[–] ArrrborDAY@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago

¯_(ツ)_/¯ You don't have to sell yourself for money, you dont care if its wrong or if is its right

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago

JD Vance hopes she won't so that he can be JD Kirk and up his status

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How much do you want to bet that he actually doesn't care and it's just to appease the Christian cult followers.

[–] allidoislietomyself@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

This is totally it. They are preparing JD to take over the party after Trump, but it's hard to do that when he's married to the exact type of person the base dislikes.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

How much you bet he'd get a divorce to advance his career.

[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 30 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Doesn't JD Vance first have to convert to Christianity?

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

well couchianity

[–] Damage@feddit.it 4 points 2 weeks ago

He's having a hard time at that, after killing the previous Pope

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

The Christians elected him. Believe what they do, not what they say they are.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Religion is tied with capitalism as the dumbest things created by man.

[–] SoloCritical@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Idk, does mental illness count as being man made? Because that’s what religion is imo.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago

When one person believes a delusion, it’s schizophrenia. When millions do, it is religion.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Weaponizing it is man made

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How can it be a healthy relationship when either or both sides thinks the other is probably condemned to some eternal punishment and yet is okay with them not believing. At least if one is atheist they can realize it's just a belief and nothing more, but still... that person thinks you're doomed and yet is fine with it, or conversely is trying to convert you all the time, which is its own issue.

[–] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You think that these ghouls would have a healthy relationship if not for religious differences?

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 13 points 2 weeks ago

These two? I don't know, but I can't help think they are both using the other. I was just talking in general, as there are a lot of mixed faith relationships out there somehow.

If these two had an honest established relationship and he suddenly started talking to the public about how she should convert (and she obviously hasn't), that's definitely a betrayal of trust. But look who we're talking about...

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago

Not all religions or sects think anyone who worships differently (or not at all) is doomed to damnation. Neither mine nor my spouse's for instance. I'm pretty sure Republicans are going to hell, though. Handbasket of deplorables.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

If you are a woman marring a republican you're a moron. It'll be like sheep marring a wolf.

[–] tornavish@lemmy.cafe 16 points 2 weeks ago

What a funny distraction from the Epstein files

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 14 points 2 weeks ago

No, he hopes that she divorces him so that he can marry Leatherpants Fashmilf.

[–] rxbudian@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago

Remember what happened to the pope after JD Vance came to visit?

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sounds like the Supreme Court may rule her illegal at some point.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

I hope when they do, they rule dumpy illegal too

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Hold the fuck up. Those pillows and that cross are little bit on the tan side. I’m not sure if this ideal enough.

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 weeks ago

We CANNOT let two Different Religions be MARRIED Together! That's AGAINST My Constitution!

-The Supreme Court Probably!

[–] DaMummy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Playing make believe and having an imagonery friend as a grownup can't be healthy for either party.

[–] weaponG@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

For children to have an imaginary friend, it is called a "phase". For adults, it is called a "religion".

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When religious people say:

Without faith, what's stopping you from killing everyone?

That should be a pretty good hint that some people need an imaginary friend.

Stop fucking assuming that every other human is exactly like you, we get enough of that from republicans.

[–] DaMummy@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Even when that imaginery friend is making them kill everyone else? It's not the trans, degenerate people doing the genocides, it's the moral religious people. We can't keep playing along with these people imaginations.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In 2025, yes, but like let's not pretend secular liberals and communist anti-thiests don't have their fair share of genocides. The proposal that religion especially encourages evil is historically ignorant.

[–] DaMummy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Which is why the Greeks are still committing genocides now that we've all accepted that it's a mythology. Same goes for the vikings, now that we've accepted that as a mythology. It's Almost like there's a pattern here.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago

Which is why the Greeks are still committing genocides now that we've all accepted that it's a mythology.

Uh... yes?

Same goes for the vikings, now that we've accepted that as a mythology

Vikings aren't doing shit because they don't exist anymore; you'll see plenty of abhorrent behavior from later Scandinavians, especially related to colonialism.

Besides, you say "still" but when was genocide a common aspect of Greek or Nordic society?

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Same goes for the vikings, now that we’ve accepted that as a mythology

You get that a lot of Neo Nazi white supremacists are hella into Norse religion right? There’s a reason someone listing “Asatru” on a dating profile is very sus.

[–] DaMummy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

You're kinda proving my point. The ones who still follow it are the sus ones.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Even when that imaginery friend is making them kill everyone else?

...

What?

If a gallon of milk is past the expiration date, do you throw out all the food in your home?

Or so you realize that instead of all food being bad, it's just rotten food?

[–] DaMummy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not saying we should kill all religious people. The fridge is broken. Stop putting new milk in it.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

The fridge is broken. Stop putting new milk in it.

...

So leave the rest of the food in the broken fridge?

Like, I understand you're trying to disagree with me, but your updated version of the analogy has the same takeaway:

Don't get rid of the concept of home refrigeration, just get rid of the broken one

Did I just woosh and you are agreeing with me intentionally?

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

I bet it didn’t matter until he became VP and the christofascist conformity machine started whispering or making prejudicial statements to his face. “When is your wife going to convert? Haha, well, nobody’s perfect…”