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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    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.

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      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.

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        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?

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        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.