JD Vance teamed up with one of the few remaining tolerable Fox News hosts, Greg Gutfeld, to demolish postmodern narratives and philosophize about life’s ultimate meaning through a Christian worldview. The moment came amidst an absolute media tear by the vice president, who also sat down with the insufferable all-female cast of ‘The View.’
For context, Vance and Gutfeld got on the topic of meaning in life and ability to discern truth from lies. They agreed that a Christian faith provided both the ultimate purpose for believers as well as a shield from pervasive and noxious progressive notions.
“Life without meaning is horrifying,” Gutfeld begins in a clip posted to social media. He may as well have been discussing the left’s current mental model, where all meaning is derived from hatred of Donald Trump. Good, bad, and meaning is derived from whether or not the current president says something or believes something.
Responding, Vice President Vance wholeheartedly agreed. “That’s absolutely right,” he said. He then jumped into a longer monologue where he philosophized on the connection between belief in God and the relationship between that and believing in anything else. He pointed specifically to the timeless G.K. Chesterton quote.
“A famous philosopher once said, when you stop believing in God, you don’t believe in nothing, you believe in anything. And I think there’s a deep truth to that, because you know who can look at progressive atheistic culture and say, like, for example, if you believe that Jesus is the Son of God, rose from the dead on the third day,” he continued.
“There are a lot of progressives who will say you’re a crazy person, you believe in superstitions, and those same people will tell you that if a grown man takes some hormonal therapies that big pharma told them to take, that person will become a woman. It’s like actually you believe something that’s far crazier and clearly a violation of nature, and I think that there is this deep sense of purpose and meaning that everybody’s seeking, and I think what’s great, I mean, obviously I’m a Christian, so I’m going to say this,” Vance added.
“But what’s great about Christianity is it’s a healthy way to find meaning, 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, and again, that’s like part of how I found my way back to faith, because I was an atheist, I thought I was better than everybody, and I realized, you know, what, this is actually not making me a very good person,” he finished.
Watch the Vice President give the perfect rationale for believing in a higher power below:
As mentioned, Vance has been going from one studio to the next as he makes a tour celebrating and defending much of what the Trump administration has accomplished. Just days before appearing with Greg Gutfeld on Fox News, he braved the den of ‘The View,’ where the five rapidly-TDS co-hosts peppered him with what they thought were gotcha questions, only to come away completely destroyed as the Vice President calmly and effortlessly explained how they were wrong, as if he were the parent chiding children for their simplistic and incorrect models of the world.
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