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Posted on 07/05/2026 2:36:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In a divided America, JD Vance sees Christianity as a unifying force. His new memoir, “Communion,” blames secularism for social strife and proposes faith as the solution. The book is not just a conversion narrative; it is an argument that a more Christian America would also be a more peaceful and tolerant one.
“I do think in a very foundational sense the country is a Christian nation,” Vance tells me in an interview. Religious decline hasn’t removed social divisions, he says, but instead has deepened them: “I see antisemitism spreading ... You’re seeing an elevation of anti-Christian bias. You’re seeing an elevation of anti-White bias. You’re, of course, seeing anti-Asian discrimination.” In short, “The United States is becoming more divided against itself. And I think, again, this is the fruit of secular liberalism.”
In place of secularism, Vance champions a nonsectarian Christianity. “If an ideology was advertised as promoting unity and openness and tolerance, and in fact it has created division and discord, maybe we should try something else,” he says. “And I think that something else is to return to the Christian foundation of the country.”
These arguments may surprise those who have seen Donald Trump as the expression of a post-religious right. But Vance sees a spiritual side to the current president. “He’s a person who’s thinking about these very deep questions.” Vance points to private conversations but also to public remarks in which Trump muses — often self-deprecatingly — on whether he will make it to heaven.
This doesn’t mean religious people have always been pleased with Trump’s White House. I ask Vance about the Catholic Church’s criticism of the administration’s immigration policies. Religious leaders are right to weigh in on the issue, he says, but some bishops “don’t care or a...”
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Praising God for a VP who is seeking Him, and wanting our countrymen to restore a relationship with God.
2 Chronicles 7:14
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." --John Adams
Over a dozen times the bible proclaims the FIRST DUTY OF GOVERNMENT is to PUNISH EVILDOERS!!
Hillary, Soros, Singham, Omar and more are laughing at us all while they plot their revenge.
Satan is known as the LAWLESS ONE, why STILL ZERO ARRESTS?
Every Islamic country is a s hole. They embraced satanic and that pedo .
There are some similarities between what VP Vance is saying and George Washington’s Farewell Address to the nation as he was about to step down from the presidency.
Here are the exact words George Washington used regarding religion and morality in his Farewell Address, published on September 19, 1796.
This specific passage is one of the most famous sections of the document, and Washington framed these two concepts as the literal infrastructure of the American republic:
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“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of
patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity.
Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice?
So let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
It’s a little hard to arrest Satan. Let God take care of him.
It probably needs to be said, that JD Vance is a Catholic and not a Protestant.
The U.S. Constitution is not a Catholic Constitution. COTUS’s lineage is Protestant.
I don’t make the rules.
Just imagine what a better place the world would be if that evil rapist warlord pedophile mad Mo was never born.
Who said it was, Captain Strawman?
JD specifically references "Christian."
Are you saying that Protestants or Catholics or both aren't Christian?
And the lineage of Protestant religions is Catholic, specifically Roman Catholic.
Having pointed that historical truth out, I am someone who is uncomfortable with all organized religions. We do need morality in both public and private spheres, but all organized religions need to be kept in the private sphere.
Politically there’s huge differences.
Catholic nations throughout Europe typically resulted in dictatorships of a hereditary nature under the guise of a divine right to rule.
I’m sure there were free Catholic societies that did not have kings or even oligarchies. I just don’t think that was the majority. Normally what you had was a king and serfs aka slaves. That’s just what it was.
Protestantism is not nearly so old but the U.S. Constitution is around 300 years after Martin Luther nailing his grievances to the door in 1517.
And there are plenty of Protestant dictatorships too, almost all of them are Christian Socialism. So I’m sober about this reality.
Still. The U.S. Constitution is not a Catholic Constitution. You didn’t say I was wrong.
“And the lineage of Protestant religions is Catholic, specifically Roman Catholic. “
That’s fine, I’m just recognizing that one had to happen before the other, and to reiterate, there’s political principles behind it that matter.
I was not making a religious argument. Remember that.
Who said it was, Captain Strawman?
No, the US Constitution was not drafted as a Protestant document. It was intentionally crafted as a secular framework for a national government, emphasizing religious neutrality, federalism, and individual liberties rather than advancing any specific faith, including Protestantism.
Key Evidence from the Text and Drafting
Religious Background of the Framers
Most delegates were Protestants of various stripes (e.g., many Presbyterians, Episcopalians/Anglicans, Congregationalists), reflecting the overwhelmingly Protestant population of the colonies. Historians note Calvinist/Reformed influences on ideas like covenant theology, resistance to tyranny, and representative structures (e.g., Presbyterian "presbyteries"). Two-thirds had Calvinist backgrounds, and one-third of signers were Presbyterian.
However:
The framers drew on Protestant-majority culture and moral assumptions (e.g., John Adams later noted the Constitution was "made only for a moral and religious people"), but they did not establish Protestantism or any creed. Many had witnessed religious strife and state establishments and sought to avoid it federally.
Historical Context
Look, if you like to avoid certain inconvenient topics that’s your choice. You are free to do the ostrich/sand thing.
Oh. lol.
Now the Constitution is secular. This is fun.
Yes, I know I deserve it for opening the can with the worms in it.
Do you have documenation that is is a Protestant document?
Surely you can come up with some citations.
Kirk ultimately concluded that the United States was founded with the intention that its citizens would be God-fearing, Bible-believing Christians. “But finally, and most importantly, let’s look at actually what the founders said. John Adams famously said the Constitution was only written for a moral, religious people. It was wholly inadequate for the people of any other the body politic of America was so Christian, it was so Protestant, that our form and structure of government was built for the people that believed in Christ, our Lord. One of the reasons we’re living through a constitutional crisis is that we no longer have a Christian nation, but we have a Christian form of government, and they’re incompatible, so you cannot have liberty if you do not have a Christian population,” he said.
This is all that I’m saying.
We had a Protestant people, so we built a Protestant Constitution.
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It was wholly inadequate for the people of any other the body politic of America was so Christian, it was so Protestant, that our form and structure of government was built for the people that believed in Christ, our Lord.
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Mark
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