“You’re going to let him put all of his strange gods up in the White House?” one pro-Trump pastor wondered of Vivek Ramaswamy, who is Hindu.
Ramaswamy even pointed to his religion as a unique advantage for a GOP candidate. “I stand unapologetically for the revival of faith,” he said, suggesting, “I’m at liberty to do it even more freely without anybody accusing me of being a ‘Christian nationalist.’”
But as Ramaswamy’s star is on the rise, actual Christian nationalists are growing louder in casting him as a religious and ethnic outsider. Leaders of Pastors For Trump — the top evangelical group boosting Trump’s 2024 bid — also painted Ramaswamy’s religion as a non-starter during a prayer call this past Sunday.
Jackson Lahmeyer, the Tulsa-based preacher and founder of Pastors for Trump, marveled at the rise of “a Hindu guy, that’s like 35 years old” who somehow was now “tied for second place with Ron DeSantis.
In reality, Ramaswamy hasn’t pretended to be a Christian. He has played up his attendance of a Christian high school in Cincinnati, and has called Jesus “
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