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When JD Vance hasn\u2019t been failing in peace talks to end the Iran war, he\u2019s been spending his time going on talk shows to promote his book, \u201cCommunion,\u201d all about his conversion from Protestantism to Catholicism.<\/p>\n

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How he has time to write a book as vice president\u2014and how appropriate that is, considering vice presidents have rarely done so\u2014is another story. This is a book that, like all aspiring presidential candidates, is about setting Vance up to win the highest office in the land, a pretty scary prospect. <\/p>\n

On the book itself, I leave it to the scholar Anthea Butler, a professor of religious studies and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania, who teaches about religion and theology and notes, \u201cVance\u2019s new book ranks among the worst things I\u2019ve read.\u201d <\/p>\n

As has been reported, there\u2019s a United Methodist Church on the cover of this book about converting to Catholicism, and that choice of illustration serves as a metaphor for the ignorance and inauthenticity found within\u2026
Vance appears to be bringing some of his evangelical upbringing and theology to his Catholic faith\u2026That\u2019s why, despite his conversion to Catholicism, Vance still comes across like an evangelical. His willingness to argue Catholic theology, despite his limited knowledge, speaks to his Protestant upbringing..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What I\u2019m going to address more specifically is Vance\u2019s discussion about the book with Ross Douthat, the right-wing New York Times opinion columnist. Douthat, like Vance, converted to Catholicism from Protestantism and has similarly criticized the pope and Vatican teaching. So these are two odd peas in a precarious pod.<\/p>\n

Douthat, to his credit, does sometimes ask Vance about contradictions in his writing and thinking when it comes to his conversion to Catholicism. But he too easily lets Vance off the hook when the vice president offers a completely unacceptable answer.<\/p>\n

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A duplicity on \u2018culture wars\u2019<\/h4>\n

Vance claims in the book, and to Douthat in the interview, for example, that the seeds of his conversion to Catholicism began as he saw conservative Christians focused on the Terri Schiavo case, the woman who, in 1990, was in a vegetative state after cardiac arrest and whose parents battled her husband against taking his wife off of a feeding tube. It was a non-stop media story and a battle between Christian nationalists (including evangelicals and conservative Catholics) and the rest of us.<\/p>\n

Vance said this overblown \u201cculture war\u201d issue, like others that are often used by religious fundamentalists to gin up the base and raise money, didn\u2019t speak to him and his life experience as a young man who enlisted in the Marines straight out of high school and was a combat correspondent, a military journalist:<\/p>\n

I was about to leave for Iraq. My entire family was terrified that something bad was going to happen to me. My mom was struggling with the worst throes of her addiction problem. My grandmother had just died.
Our economic situation in our family had been bad for a long time. Now it seemed to somehow get worse. And I\u2019m sending money back home to my family and thinking to myself: This Christianity has nothing to say about the struggles in my life.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Vance goes on to say that \u201cit\u2019s important for Christian churches to recognize that there are a lot of kids\u2014whether they\u2019re at college or they\u2019re in the workforce\u2014they\u2019re living the normal struggles of life,\u201d adding that they\u2019re \u201cdealing with heartbreak, they\u2019re dealing with addiction in their family, maybe they\u2019re struggling to find a job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Where to begin with this?<\/p>\n

First off, why didn\u2019t Douthat ask him why, then, do he and Trump and the religious conservatives of the MAGA base focus obsessively on transgender issues, for example, another \u201cculture war\u201d issue that is completely divorced from the experience of most Americans\u2014including young men struggling with addiction or going into the military\u2014who really couldn\u2019t give a damn about the issue that gins up the religious right base and raised funds for it?<\/p>\n

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