Vivek Ramaswamy talks China, 9/11, war, economic collapse and LGBT ideology

By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Monday, August 21, 2023

LGBT and climate ideology is based on 'cult-like belief systems'

A rainbow-colored flag is seen outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., on April 27, 2015. | REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Carlson played a clip of Ramaswamy giving his thoughts about the "LGBTQ+ community" at a recent event, where he described "trans" as "fundamentally in tension with gay."

Ramaswamy told Carlson that including divergent identity groups as part of the same acronym is an effort to create an "alphabet soup" and advance an "us vs. them destruction of modern order."

Ramaswamy attempted to poke holes in the tenets of LGBT ideology, specifically the supposition that "the sex of the person you're attracted to is hardwired on the day you were born even though there is no gay gene."

After telling Carlson how LGBT activists believe that "your own sex is completely fluid over the course of your life even though there is a definitive sex chromosome," Ramaswamy commented, "You can't believe these two things at the same time."

"These are cult-like belief systems … because if it's a religious cult," Ramaswamy argued. "You don't have any obligation to logic if you're subscribing to a religion, and the worst religions are the ones that fail to recognize themselves as religions."

While praising religion as a "great thing," Ramaswamy emphasized the necessity for people who subscribe to a religion to recognize that they are "actually exercising faith."

"The most dangerous religions of all are those that claim to be secular but are actually religious in their conviction," Ramaswamy remarked.

He pointed to "inherent tensions" as one of the surest signs that LGBT ideology is a religion and that it has adopted the rainbow flag as an "idol."

He concluded that "the first idol was not good enough, the rainbow flag, then they had to make the trans flag." He referred to the "trans flag" as the "golden idol" established to replace the "silver" idol of the rainbow flag.

Ramaswamy listed the climate movement as another ideology that amounts to a religion, claiming that "the same people who are antithetical to carbon emissions here in the United States are perfectly fine with shifting those carbon emissions to China" and that "the same people who are hostile to carbon emissions are also hostile to nuclear energy, which is the most productive form of carbon-free energy."

According to Ramaswamy, "You can't believe both of those things at once unless you're subscribing to a broader religious worldview."