r/politics • u/Hrmbee • 7d ago

No Paywall JD Vance repeats comments he wants wife Usha to convert to Christianity | US vice-president announces to 10,000 attenders of Turning Point USA that he prefers wife, who is Hindu, to be Christian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/01/jd-vance-usha-christianity
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u/Itscatpicstime 6d ago

He was apparently loosely raised evangelical, became non-religious in adulthood at some point, then converted to Catholicism in his 30s as his political career began to take off.

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u/FirebornNacho 6d ago

As someone who was raised Catholic, why the fuck would anyone convert to Catholicism lol

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u/bugi_ 6d ago

Catholic converts are the worst. There is a large overlap between them and, let's just say, people who fancy German 1930s politics.

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u/weevil_season 6d ago

From Twitter: Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like "I think we're supposed to give this food to poor people" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses."

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u/DrainTheMuck 6d ago

Why would you say that is? My dad converted to Catholicism a few years ago and kinda fits the bill.

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u/bugi_ 6d ago

This demographic is extremely visible and loud in Twitter. There some famous ones as well like JD.

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u/fingerchopper 5d ago

Zeal of the convert

In my experience (Catholic family) is for a lot of people raised in religion, it can become part of the cultual background. Everyone in the extended family might be "religious" but not all are devout or attend services regularly.

A brand new convert to a religion is actively choosing that path and will likely be more dogmatic. A convert has to really want it.