Vice-president JD Vance received blowback over the weekend for expressing his hope that his wife, a Hindu, will convert to Christianity. Critics claim he is casting aside her faith or presenting it as a problem to be fixed. This cultural impulse to relativize belief did not arise in a vacuum. Marcus has more.

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