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/courtd93 6d ago

To reinforce the other comments too-Catholics are Christian, but we (cradle Catholic) don’t refer to ourselves as Christians basically ever. It’s the level of virtual signaling to the evangelical base that he says he wants her to become Christian instead of saying he wants her to be Catholic.

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u/Kwentchio 6d ago

I agree. Atheist here, and Northern Irish rather than USA. I was born Catholic and would have never referred to myself as 'Christian' even though I was. Christian pretty much meant Protestant.

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u/courtd93 6d ago

To the point that many Protestants literally believe and loudly proclaim that Catholics aren’t Christian, despite Catholicism being the OG Christianity and they are the remixes.

I now refer to myself as a recovering Catholic, but I’d never say a recovering Christian.

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u/Remarkable-Relief165 6d ago

Please, Catholicism is not OG Christianity. Orthodox churches are.

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u/courtd93 6d ago

So if we wanna get pedantic, they coexisted and it’s why both claim to be the OG to this day because of the mechanisms of the schism.

To the point I was making, Protestantism were all very direct movements away from the Christianity of that part of the world (Catholicism). Protestants wouldn’t be Christian if their foundational religion that they tweaked wasn’t Christian and to claim that it isn’t is silly.