The Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, defended this week a Christian vision of politics in a speech that openly contrasts with decades of aggressive secularization in American public life.
Before more than 30,000 young conservatives gathered at AmFest 2025, organized by Turning Point USA, Vance stated that «the only thing that has truly served as an anchor for the United States is that we have been and, by the grace of God, will always be a Christian nation». A statement that breaks with the ambiguous language usual in much of the Western political establishment.
The vice president denounced that for decades a cultural war against Christianity has been waged, driven by ideological sectors that have sought to expel faith from public space, school, work, and social life. According to Vance, the result has been a moral vacuum that has not been filled by greater freedom, but by ideologies that exploit the worst of human nature.
Faith as the foundation of moral and political order
Vance emphasized that Christianity has provided since the nation’s origins a shared moral language, from which derive the notion of natural law, the recognition of human rights, the duty to one’s neighbor, and the conviction that the strong must protect the weak. «Christianity is the creed of the United States», he affirmed, recalling that even religious freedom, so invoked in liberal discourse, is itself a concept of Christian root.
In contrast, he criticized the transformation of religious freedom into a freedom from religion, which has led to the imposition of an ideological anthropology incompatible with the Christian vision of man, woman, and family. In that context, he denounced the denial of natural order and the promotion of gender theories that present sexual identity as a manipulable construction.
Family, masculinity, and moral responsibility
The vice president defended a virile and responsible conception of masculinity, stating that the fruits of authentic Christianity are «good husbands, patient fathers, builders, and men willing to give their lives for a principle if God so asks». In the face of victimist or identity discourses, he pointed out that true personal and social transformation does not arise from ideological programs or state subsidies, but from Christ.
He illustrated this statement with his visit to a Christian ministry that works with men trapped in drug addiction and homelessness, emphasizing that what rescued them was not an ideology or economic aid, but «the fact that a carpenter died 2,000 years ago and changed the world».
Unapologetic Christian politics
In conclusion, the vice president recalled that only God can promise eternal salvation, but affirmed that the Government has the duty to ensure safe communities, dignified work, and social stability. His intervention was received with enthusiasm by a young audience that, in the face of dominant relativism, seems to seek clear moral references.
In a Western context marked by the renunciation of many leaders to any Christian reference, Vance’s speech represents an explicit vindication of the public role of faith, not as confessional imposition, but as a moral foundation without which politics degenerates into pure power engineering.