{"id":2621737,"date":"2026-06-30T17:01:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jd-vance-explains-how-leftist-motto-is-a-disgusting-butchering-of-the-nicene-creed\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T17:03:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:03:02","slug":"jd-vance-explains-how-leftist-motto-is-a-disgusting-butchering-of-the-nicene-creed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jd-vance-explains-how-leftist-motto-is-a-disgusting-butchering-of-the-nicene-creed\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance Explains How Leftist Motto Is &#8216;a Disgusting Butchering of the Nicene Creed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjd-vance-explains-how-leftist-motto-is-a-disgusting-butchering-of-the-nicene-creed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2621737&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article explores the idea that everyone worships something, whether openly or subconsciously. In a recent interview, vice President J.D. Vance argued that even secular progressives and atheists adopt Christian rituals, but without acknowledging God or grace, effectively misusing sacred traditions. He likened modern secular practices, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-silently-shredding-hostage-posters-are-saying-exactly-what-you-think-they-are\/\" title=\"Leftists quietly tearing hostage posters express your expected thoughts.\">virtue-signaling signs<\/a> and ideological gestures, to distortions of the Nicene creed, a foundational Christian statement of faith. Vance highlighted how these rituals mimic religious affirmations but omit the divine, revealing a form of secular worship rooted in human pride and values. The piece notes that many ancient figures, like Marx and Fauci, have worshiped themselves or science, demonstrating that everyone tends to worship something. Vance, who recently authored a book on rediscovering faith, suggests that understanding these tendencies could help secular individuals better grasp their behaviors and motivations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Whether they admit it or not, everyone worships something. That much we have always known.<\/p>\n<p>In a clip from an interview with the Daily Wire\u2019s Michael Knowles, posted Tuesday to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> X, Vice President J.D. Vance augmented that knowledge with the impressive insight that in today\u2019s world, even progressives and atheists worship their secular idols using Christian forms.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Vance described that secular worship as \u201ca disgusting butchering of the Nicene Creed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the really interesting things about the secular, hyper-progressive, hyper-liberal age that we live in,\u201d the vice president said at the beginning of the clip, \u201cis 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Therein lies the key to Vance\u2019s argument \u2014 secular progressives have adopted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/unearthed-interview-james-talarico-called-christianity-violent-religion-saw-atheists-christlike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christian<\/a> rituals <em>divorced from God and grace<\/em>. Hence the deceptive allure of that which they worship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo,\u201d he continued, \u201cwe\u2019re thankfully \u2014 thanks to Donald Trump, I would say \u2014 we\u2019re past the point where most people, at least that I see, hang out those hideous signs in their yard that say \u2018In This House We Believe \u2014 blah blah blah blah blah \u2014 love is love, science is science, no person is illegal.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, those multi-colored, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >virtue-signaling political signs amounted<\/a> to a blight on many residential neighborhoods earlier this decade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat sign,\u201d the vice president added, \u201cis like, such a disgusting butchering of the Nicene Creed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hillary-clinton-post-jd-vances-comments-nixon-backfires-spectacularly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vance<\/a> then characterized that butchering as evidence that \u201cpeople 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cThat sign is like such a disgusting butchering of the Nicene Creed.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VP?\">@VP<\/a> tells <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/michaeljknowles?\">@michaeljknowles<\/a> how secular rituals are often rooted in Christian traditions, including the infamous \u201cIn this house, we believe\u201d signs libs like to put in their yards. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8urUhWDnc0\">pic.twitter.com\/8urUhWDnc0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realDailyWire\/status\/2071990686384095364?\">June 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gotquestions.org\/Nicene-creed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicene Creed<\/a>, first adopted in A.D. 325 at the Council of Nicaea, begins as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then, the Creed enumerates professions of belief \u201cin one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God\u201d and \u201cin the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life, who proceedeth from the Father and the Son,\u201d which together constitute the Christian doctrine of the Trinity.<\/p>\n<p>Other professions of belief, including \u201cin one holy catholic and apostolic Church,\u201d round out the Creed.<\/p>\n<p>Vance, of course, argued that the \u201cIn This House We Believe\u201d signs mimic the Creed while excluding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-warns-nation-godless-communists-following-troubling-election-results-will-kill-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">God<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts, of course, are ubiquitous, but insights are rare. If the vice president came to this realization on his own, then it qualifies as a genuine insight.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, it squares with what we already know \u2014 namely, that everyone worships something.<\/p>\n<p>A young Karl Marx, for instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/archive\/marx\/works\/1837-pre\/verse\/verse11.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worshiped himself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Fauci, who directed the government\u2019s response to COVID while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tulsi-gabbard-drops-pandemic-bombshell-last-day-dni-fauci-lied-virus-intimidated-dissenters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">covering up his own role in its origins<\/a>, worshiped science and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fauci-targets-critics-national-television-going-saving-lives-going-lying\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">identified himself<\/a> with science as a way of worshiping himself.<\/p>\n<p>Even militant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pure-evil-congressman-callously-discusses-favorite-kind-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pro-abortion<\/a> activists have borrowed from Christianity. After all, what is the slogan \u201cMy Body, My Choice,\u201d if not a diabolical inversion of Christ\u2019s sacrifice: \u201cThis Is My Body\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, the Trump administration has showcased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-jd-vance-explains-iran-deal-fundamentally-different-obamas-jcpoa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vance<\/a> as the face of its peace deal with Iran. To that end, the vice president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jd-vance-responds-lindsey-graham-expresses-skepticism-iran-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made the rounds<\/a> on various news shows.<\/p>\n<p>But Vance also has a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Communion-Finding-Way-Back-Faith-ebook\/dp\/B0GTQ68YZN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">book<\/a> to promote: \u201cCommunion: Finding My Way Back to Faith.\u201d With that in mind, he has appeared in a variety of forums, both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-jd-vance-hilarious-note-protesters-yelling-foreign-language\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">friendly<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jd-vance-says-view-defied-expectations-reveals-joy-behar-told-off-camera\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hostile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Given his Nicene Creed-related insights, Vance should spend as much time as possible in front of a microphone. 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