Since being booted from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for besmirching the Americans for being lazy and viewing life as “Saved by the Bell,” Vivek Ramaswamy has set off on his latest venture: running for Governor of Ohio. Essentially, he blamed Americans for embracing sitcom TV characters for why America was failing to produce the best engineers. In a bid to support H1B workers, tech companies notoriously employ to undercut wages in skilled jobs that should belong to college graduates. That he did this at Christmas only further exemplifies how her perceives Americans versus immigrants like himself.
Despite insulting Americans online, Vivek Ramaswamy has had a very successful launch to his bid for governor, in which he is a heavy favorite to secure the nomination. The audience of Twitter/X who were most aggrieved by his disparaging remarks is not the same as the average primary voter in Ohio. In other words, since it is mainly the elderly who vote in primary elections, they will be the ones who catapult him to victory, and they are either oblivious or indifferent to how Vivek perceives them.
To make matters worse, even Christian institutions are compromising to promote and elevate a Hindu foreigner to be their magistrate. Introducing Awake America, a national prayer organization that connects tens of thousands of believers across the nation. Within their Ohio branch, they hosted a prayer meeting at North Columbus Baptist Church (NCBC). NCBC is an Independent Baptist church that is implicitly KVJ only, as denoted by references to “authorized” version on their beliefs page. However, they surprisingly only provide a doctrinal statement upon request. Their pastor, Daniel Wolvin, is head of Awake America Ohio, which operates out of NCBC.
On April 7th, pictures circulated of this prayer event, which has no online footprint at either the church, Ramaswamy campaign, or Awake Ohio’s websites. Nevertheless, the event was billed as a prayer gathering with a group of pastors.
The prayer consisted of the group laying hands on Ramaswamy. Other pictures show that Ramaswamy was able to give a speech of sorts to the group while the TVs show “Vivek for Ohio” as if it were a campaign event. While many might scrutinize the mingling of the church into electoral politics, the real issue is that of a pagan being prayed over within the grounds of a church that is seemingly endorsing him. Although Scripture gives commands to pray for the magistrate, Vivek Ramaswamy does not yet possess such title or authority. Furthermore, the comparisons to Trump are moot since the White House extended invitations to which men like William Wolfe responded. Perhaps most important is that, contrary to the perception of Steve Deace, Vivek Ramaswamy is not a true American, which cannot be said of Trump.
While Vivek Ramaswamy might appear genuine, he is surrounded by a group of men praying over him in the name of the Triune God while he himself is not a Christian. Did they pray for his genuine repentance and conversion, or did they simply slobber at the prospects of having the next governor in their midst? Did they even address the Hindu elephant in the room?
What makes Vivek Ramaswamy pernicious is that he is talented at playing the part, yet, as is stereotypical with Brahmans, his integrity is rather absent. Ramaswamy’s wealth derives from pumping and dumping Axovant Gene Therapies (AXGT), which had a failed Alzheimer’s treatment that proved unsuccessful in early clinical trials. After buying the company in 2014, Ramaswamy proceeded to take it public in 2015, where he raised $315 million, only for the subsequent clinical trials to fail in 2017. Then the stock crashed and the company dissolved in 2023. One might call that a scam, even if it was completely legal.
Ramaswamy is talented at branding himself as pro-America and will say the things most Republicans lack the courage to say. He confronted wokeness even though he promotes anti-white racism via H1B visas. Though he is Indian, he addressed the Great Replacement during a GOP debate. Despite being Hindu, he talks Christianese. The guy knows what to say, very much like a seductress, but the signs are there enough for one to know that his words are not real. That he is both Hindu and a foreigner are glaring red flags, but he has already let the mask slip numerous times. He thinks Americans are dolts, and likely the boomercons of Ohio will prove him right.
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He’s always been a grifter. It’s sad that the boomer minded evangelicals are fooled by this guy. He’s no different than an internet scammer.
“Lay hands suddenly on no man” 1 Timothy 5:22 KJV, Authorized Version, Authorised Version, Authorized to be read by these dummies for their edification.
This is going to be fun.
Vivek Ramaswamy: born in Ohio, practices Hinduism.
Arnold Schwarzenegger: born in Austria, is a Catholic.
Which of these is the foreigner who shouldn’t be a magistrate in America and why?
@dave s:
As is frequently done, you are citing 1 Timothy 5:22 out of context. The laying on of hands in that verse refers to appointing men to the position of elder or bishop (in more contemporary speech, preacher or pastor-teacher). It does not refer to laying hands on people to pray for them. There are perhaps other New Testament texts that caution against praying for people who do not merit it, but this is not one of them.
Now to the writer of this original post: your whole thrust of this post is actually specious when considering the Bible. In the Old Testament and the New Testament, there was the presumption that most political leaders were going to be unregenerate. Joseph faithfully served the pagan pharoah. David for a time served the pagan Philistine king while on the run from Saul. Daniel served as many as 8 pagan kings, and Mordecai served Xerxes. Paul wrote Romans 13 in the context of a Roman Empire that was exclusively ruled by explicit pagans until it was ruled by somewhat less explicit ones under the guise of the papacy. So there is no Bible text that can be construed as praying that a pagan would rule wisely and ethically as a magistrate is wrong in any sense. Quite the contrary, Martin Luther famously said that he preferred the rule of a wise Turk (which at the time meant “Muslim conqueror of Christians”) to that of a foolish Christian. Yes, Luther was given to polemical exaggeration but his point was the same as the Bible’s: while the government sphere and the church sphere are both ordained by God to suit His divine purposes, they are nonetheless separate with very differing qualifications. Regeneration and peerless moral character are requirements for elder and deacons in the church, not for leaders of state. If the people of this church had laid hands on him for the purposes of appointing him to be a deacon or lead a missionary endeavor to Hindus, you would have something legitimate against them. But if they believe him to be a capable and qualified candidate for civil magistrate, they violated no Bible text by laying hands on him and praying for him. Your claims otherwise show that your allegiance in this matter is not Biblical revelation but rather the politics and other cares of this world.
For the record, I despise Vivek Ramaswamy and hope that he loses. But I can make that case without slandering other members of the body of Christ with false charges.
@Kent Johns, But doesn’t this mean that laying hands on people is not about praying for them but about ordaining them? So perhaps you shouldn’t be laying hands on people when praying for them because it looks like you’re ordaining them, and you wouldn’t want to be so misunderstood.
@Kent Johns, Neither Vivek nor Arnold have any business holding any office in America.