JD Vance Gives The Left A Lesson In Christian Tradition
Vice President J.D. Vance made that point in a recent interview with Daily Wire host Michael Knowles, in a clip posted Tuesday on X. His argument was not simply that modern secular progressivism has its own beliefs. It was that many of its rituals and public declarations borrow heavily from Christianity while stripping out God, […] The post JD Vance Gives The Left A Lesson In Christian Tradition appeared first on Red Right Patriot.
Vice President J.D. Vance made that point in a recent interview with Daily Wire host Michael Knowles, in a clip posted Tuesday on X. His argument was not simply that modern secular progressivism has its own beliefs. It was that many of its rituals and public declarations borrow heavily from Christianity while stripping out God, grace and salvation.
“One of the really interesting things about the secular, hyper-progressive, hyper-liberal age that we live in,” Vance said, “is you realize how many of the rituals and institutions and practices of Catholicism show up in the modern world completely divorced from the God part and the grace part of it.”
That was the heart of his point. Secular progressives, in Vance’s view, have not abandoned religious behavior so much as redirected it. The objects of devotion have changed, but the impulse remains.
He pointed to the familiar yard signs that became common in many neighborhoods over the last several years, the ones beginning with “In This House We Believe,” followed by slogans such as “love is love,” “science is science,” and “no person is illegal.”
Vance credited President Donald Trump with helping move the country past the peak of that trend, at least among the people he sees. But the signs themselves, he argued, revealed something deeper.
“That sign,” Vance said, “is like, such a disgusting butchering of the Nicene Creed.”
The Nicene Creed, first adopted at the Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325, begins with a declaration of Christian belief: “We believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.”
It then continues with statements of belief in Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit and the Church, forming one of the central summaries of Christian doctrine. For centuries, Christians have recited it as a public profession of faith.
Vance’s argument is that the progressive yard-sign version imitates the structure and cadence of a creed while replacing Christian doctrine with political slogans. It still has a public profession. It still has a list of beliefs. It still signals membership in a moral community. What it lacks is God.
That observation is useful because it gets at something people often miss. Secular politics does not always eliminate religious instincts. Often, it redirects them into politics, ideology, identity or self-expression.