“If you believe that Jesus is the son of God, rose from the dead on the third day, there are a lot of progressives who will say, ‘You’re a crazy person, you believe in superstitions,’” Vance said during an hour-long appearance on Fox’s Gutfeld! on Tuesday night.Vance’s comments come as he promotes his new memoir, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, which was released Tuesday. The book details his 2019 conversion to Catholicism. Vance is the second Catholic American to hold the nation’s second-highest office, after former Vice President Joe Biden. Both Catholic presidents, John F. Kennedy and Biden, have been Democrats.
“Those same people will tell you that if a grown man takes some hormonal therapies that Big Pharma told him to take, that person will become a woman,” Vance said, referring to the progressives he says deny the communion. “It’s like, actually, you believe something that is far crazier and clearly a violation of nature.”
Vance was one of the last to meet with Pope Francis before his death, though the vice president criticized the “trite platitudes” of the Vatican diplomats who accompanied the pontiff in his recent book.
“What is great about Christianity is that it is a healthy way to find meaning,” Vance added on Gutfeld! “But if you try to find all of your meaning in politics, or you try to find all of your meaning in worldly things, I think it has a very distorting effect.”
