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is culture. Is that what you're doing? I think actually all of you are wrong. I think you're all wrong actually. You want to check? Let's check on this for the next time okay? Should we check on it now? Let's check on it now. Let's do this in real time. So here here's what I think. I think he identifies with the Hindu tradition and culture. In other words an influence but that his belief of relig…

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ublicans nor Democrats actually have. That's what the First Amendment says. You get to practice your faith. Every pastor in this country gets to do his job without the government getting in their way. That's what I'm going to keep as the.

So here's my interpretation. See if it matches yours. That he believes there's one God. What does he believe about Jesus? Because that would be kind of. I was just looking to see what he thinks about Jesus. Betting on moments. Let's see who is Jesus to the Hindus. I think they see him as a teacher. Well I guess that would be the main question huh? What do Hindus say about Jesus? He's a light in the world or something. Do Hindus believe in the Bible? Interesting.

So what would be the difference between someone who thought there was one God and believed all the Christian values but was a Hindu by self label? So here here's what I think you need to ask. Does he believe any of the Hindu specific beliefs such as reincarnation? Isn't that a key thing? If he believes there's one God and you go to an afterlife but the Bible might not be literal that's that's closer to a that's pretty close to Trump religion. It's kind of better than I thought it was. I'm more comfortable knowing that he's compatible with Christian religion without being a true believer. To me that's the ultimate. That'd be the best situation.

So I will accept your statement that he identifies as Hindu. Can we agree on that? Can we agree that he identifies as Hindu? Would you also agree that he does not identify at least out loud with the things the Hindus believe such as reincarnation or don't they have multiple gods? Wait how many gods do the Hindus have? How many gods? Let's get a number on that. 33. How many gods? 33. So he believes there's one God which he says all the time.

All right now let me ask you this. Using his own words to describe himself he is compatible with all of the Christian concepts and he believes there's one God and he agrees with Thomas Jefferson that the Bible is human made. So is Thomas Jefferson a Christian? Was Thomas Jefferson? Because I don't think he believed Jesus was the son of God. You know that right? I'm pretty sure Jefferson didn't believe in Jesus did he? He was a deist not a Jesus lover. What about Washington?

All right so this is more interesting than I thought. It's actually better than I thought. I would have been uncomfortable if he said he was Hindu and believed the specifics of 33 gods and reincarnation. I would be equally uncomfortable if he said he was a Christian and believed everything in the Bible was literally true. Sort of a Mike Johnson thing. That doesn't make me comfortable at all. But if you say you believe in one God like most of the Americans who believe in anything do and you say you're completely 100% on board with the cultural you know aspects of Christianity that's sort of the ideal situation for a president. I don't think you could do better. Now that might make him hard to be elected so that's a separate issue but I want a president who says I like all the good parts of your religion but it's up to you how much you believe about the historical details but I like all the I like what it says so let's deal with what it says because we all like that part and then you individually can argue about the historical part.

He attended church so we know he believed in God. He just didn't believe that the Bible was the work of God. That's why he kept some parts and threw away other parts. All right so I wouldn't say that he's I would not call Vivek what would you say a classic Hindu or a classic Christian but he's hit a mix that's pretty appealing I think. You found a sweet spot there. Now it doesn't mean it makes it easy to get elected. Just in my opinion it would be the perfect place to be if you're a deist you automatically don't believe in Jesus right? Is that right? Give me a fact check on that. Deists believe there's one supreme god which excludes Jesus being a like a godlike situation right? No

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or true? I get a little disagreement on that. I would think deist is just there's a God and that's the end of the story. There's no Jesus. Yeah so that they would not believe that Jesus necessarily is God. So you can believe in Jesus but not believe that Jesus is God. You could believe he's the son of God but not God. Okay all right well there's some wiggle room there. All right well I'm glad we'…

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