During an interview at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Harbor, Maryland on Thursday, Vice President JD Vance briefly articulated the Gospel, stressing how “it’s not just a set of good moral principles.”
“It’s not just a set of good moral principles… the Son of God became man, he died, and then he raised himself from the dead. That is the fundamental tenet of the Christian faith,” Vance, who is Catholic, told CPAC host Mercedes Schlapp.
“I think one lesson that flows from that is that we shouldn’t fear death… There are much more terrible things than just losing one’s life…you could lose one’s soul.”
As reported by The Christian Post, the vice president also addressed how “our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge.”
“My message to young men is, don’t allow this broken culture to send you a message that you’re a bad person because you’re a man,” said Vance. “Because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends, or because you’re competitive.”
According to Vance, he believes mainstream American society “wants to turn everybody, whether male or female, into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same and act the same.”
“We actually think God made male and female for a purpose,” he continued. “We want you guys to thrive as young men and as young women, and we’re going to help with our public policy to make it possible to do that.”
JD Vance on his faith: “It’s not just a set of good moral principles… the Son of God became man, he died, and then he raised himself from the dead. That is the fundamental tenet of the Christian faith.”
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Vance’s interview kicks off the first day of CPAC, a large, annual gathering of conservative politicians and activists organized by the American Conservative Union. The event, which runs from February 19-22, 2025, is being held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, near Washington D.C.
As announced by CPAC on Wednesday, President Donald Trump will speak at the event on Saturday.
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Originally published February 21, 2025.
