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.
39 Comments
MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 302d
JD Vance?
The guy who used to benefit from SNAP and now denounces it? That asshole?
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 47 pts · 302d
Haha what an asshole
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 302d
🎶 Usha
You don't have to wear that cross tonight 🎶
ArrrborDAY@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 302d
¯_(ツ)_/¯ You don't have to sell yourself for money, you dont care if its wrong or if is its right
vegeta@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 302d
JD Vance hopes she won't so that he can be JD Kirk and up his status
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca · 33 pts · 302d
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 · 23 pts · 302d
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 pts · 301d
How much you bet he'd get a divorce to advance his career.
affenlehrer@feddit.org · 31 pts · 302d
Doesn't JD Vance first have to convert to Christianity?
joel_feila@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 302d
well couchianity
Damage@feddit.it · 5 pts · 301d
He's having a hard time at that, after killing the previous Pope
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 301d
The Christians elected him. Believe what they do, not what they say they are.
the_q@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 302d
SoloCritical@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 302d
Idk, does mental illness count as being man made? Because that’s what religion is imo.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 302d
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 301d
Weaponizing it is man made
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 20 pts · 302d
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 · 16 pts · 302d
You think that these ghouls would have a healthy relationship if not for religious differences?
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 13 pts · 302d
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 pts · 302d
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 pts · 302d
If you are a woman marring a republican you're a moron. It'll be like sheep marring a wolf.
tornavish@lemmy.cafe · 16 pts · 302d
What a funny distraction from the Epstein files
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 14 pts · 302d
No, he hopes that she divorces him so that he can marry Leatherpants Fashmilf.
rxbudian@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 302d
Remember what happened to the pope after JD Vance came to visit?
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 302d
Here's his ideal spouse
WindyRebel@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 302d
Hold the fuck up. Those pillows and that cross are little bit on the tan side. I’m not sure if this ideal enough.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 302d
Sounds like the Supreme Court may rule her illegal at some point.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 302d
BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 302d
We CANNOT let two Different Religions be MARRIED Together! That's AGAINST My Constitution!
-The Supreme Court Probably!
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 302d
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…”
DaMummy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 302d
Playing make believe and having an imagonery friend as a grownup can't be healthy for either party.
weaponG@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 302d
For children to have an imaginary friend, it is called a "phase". For adults, it is called a "religion".
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 302d
When religious people say:
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 pts · 302d
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 pts · 302d
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 pts · 302d
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 pts · 302d
Uh... yes?
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 pts · 302d
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 pts · 302d
You're kinda proving my point. The ones who still follow it are the sus ones.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 302d
...
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 pts · 302d
I'm not saying we should kill all religious people. The fridge is broken. Stop putting new milk in it.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 302d
...
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:
Did I just woosh and you are agreeing with me intentionally?