Amid a raging controversy over Vice President JD Vance’s comment on his Christianity, Hindu American Foundation director Suhag Shukla said Vance insulted Hinduism by saying that Hindu traditions are “just not good enough”. The Vice President of the United States @JDVance just said that the Hindu traditions that his wife and millions of Americans share is just not good enough. Not a winning strategy for someone who wants to be President for ALL Americans,” Shukla posted. Vance’s commentsthat he hoped his Hindu wife Usha Vance to start believing in the Church and then eventually convert to Christianity created a major uproar. He was slammed for disrespecting his wife and her Hindu faith which many commentators interpreted as his desperate attempt to appease the MAGA base. “Yes, my wife did not grow up Christian. I think it’s fair to say that she grew up in a Hindu family but not a particularly religious family in either direction,” Vance said. “In fact, when I met my wife … I would consider myself an agnostic or an atheist, and that’s what I think she would have considered herself as well.”The VP said their kids are being raised as Christians. “Our two oldest kids … go to a Christian school. Our 8-year-old did his first Communion about a year ago. That’s the way that we have come to our arrangement.” “As I’ve told her, and I’ve said publicly, and I’ll say now in front of 10,000 of my closest friends: Do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved by church? Yeah, I honestly do wish that because I believe in the Christian Gospel, and I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way. But if she doesn’t, then God says everybody has free will, and so that doesn’t cause a problem for me,” JD Vance explained.
Did Vance insult Hindus?
Vance did not say anything about Hinduism, but referred to Usha Vance as an agnostic though Usha Vance earlier claimed that she is from a religious Hindu family. Suhag’s post came under scrutiny as many claimed that JD Vance did not say anything about Hinduism. Suhag defended and said: “In his “hope” for his wife’s conversion, his damaging, un-American insinuation is that Hindu traditions are not enough for her—that she should affirm loyalty to the path he has decided is the “correct” one.”
