J.D. Vance tried to prove a point but failed:
In a clip from an interview with the Daily wire's Michael Knowles, posted Tuesday to the social media platform X, Vice President J.D. Vance augmented that knowledge with the impressive insight that in today's world, even proressives and atheists worship their secular idols using christian forms.
In fact, Vance described that secular worship as "a disgusting butchering of the Nicene Creed."
"One of the really interesting things about the secular, hyper-progressive, hyper-liberal age that we live in," the vice president said at the beginning of the clip, "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."
Therein lies the key to Vance's argument- secular progressives have adopted Christian rituals divorced from God and grace. Hence the deceptive allure of that which they worship.
"So," he continued, "we're thankfully- thanks to Donald Trump, I would say- we're past the point where most people, at least that I see, hang out those hideous signs in their yard that say "in This House We Believe- blah blah blah blah blah- love is love, science is science, no person is illegal.'"
Indeed, those multi-colored, virtue-signaling political signs amounted to a blight on many residential neighborhoods earlier this decade.
"That sign," the vice president added, "is like, such a disgusting butchering of the Nicene Creed."
Vance then characterized that butchering as evidence that "people still have this desire to profess, to do it very publicly, and even to do it in this kind of cadence that you see in the Nicene Creed, and of course they do it in this very politically motivated way."
He is such a dud. LOL https://t.co/8k4njY2Gjg
— Jumbo Elliott (@JumboElliott76) June 30, 2026
In all fairness, J.D. Vance isn't a dud. But in all accuracy, he's making this stuff up. The Nicene Creed was initially adopted by the First Council of Nicea in 325 A.D. and altered by the Second Ecumenical Council in 381. This was when Christianity was Christianity, not divided among Roman Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Protestant, hence 1136 years before the start of the Protestant Reformation. The current iteration was approved in 2011 by a Roman Catholic group, the International Commission of English in the Liturgy.
The Nicene Creed is more commonly invoked in the Catholic mass than in Protestant worship service. However, in its current version it is accepted by virtually all Protestant denominations (of which there is a boatload) because it is a statement of the Christian faith, not peculiarly Catholic.
Vance maintains that the In This House We Believe sign utilizes a "kind of cadence that you see in the Nicene Creed." But the Creed begins only with "we believe," an unmistakably generic phrase. It does not begin with "In This _____ We Believe," as do the yard signs. "In This House We Believe" is eloquent and assertive, whatever the ensuing message. It's hard to believe that the signs are meant to be reminiscent of "rituals and institutions and practices of Catholicism." The cadence is not being copied.
The Vice President could have stated his disagreement with a) "Black Lives Matter"; b) "Women's Rights Are Human Rights"; c) "Science Is Real"' d) "Love Ia Love"; or e) "Kindness Is Everything". But his is a party whose fuhrer has said "I love the poorly educated," so respecting your supporters enough to explain your disagreement is prohibited. Instead, it is branded as "hideous.... virtue-signaling" and hatred of God.
Most of all, it probably was an effort by preppry "J.D." to prove his Roman Catholic bonafides. He believes he needs to do that on the chance that he'll have to run in the 2028 Republican presidential primaries rather than simply being elevated to the presidency upon invocationof the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.
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