Vance's Antichrist comments are a 'common belief', his friend tells BBC
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Recent remarks by US Vice-President JD Vance about the Antichrist and "the end times" are a "very, very common belief", one of his friends says.
Vance recently mused on his religious views while responding to a question on a Christian podcast. He said he would "not [be] shocked if the Antichrist was walking among us" and speculated on whether the end of the world was nigh.
His friend Rod Dreher, a conservative writer, rejected any suggestion that the comments would harm the vice-president. He told the BBC's Today programme: "Most Americans who are inclined to vote Republican already believe this stuff."
In his podcast comments, Vance also clarified that such thoughts did not preoccupy him.
In Christianity, the "end times" phrase refers to theories about what will happen at the end of the world. Many churches believe God has a divine plan for the end of everything.
Meanwhile, the Antichrist is seen as the enemy of God who appears during the final phase of the world's existence and takes it over.
Vance, who became a Catholic as an adult, reflected on these topics during a recent podcast discussion with Bryce Crawford, a US Christian podcaster.
"Do I think that we're in the end times? I don't know," he said in response to a Crawford question on the subject. "And I think that it's probably bad for me spiritually to focus too much on it, because there are, like, things you gotta do.
"I gotta be good to my wife. I gotta be good to my kids. I have to be as good of a leader as I can for the United States of America."
The vice-president continued by saying: "I think that there are, like, things about the world that make me feel, like, not shocked if the Antichrist was walking among us."
But Vance reiterated that he was preoccupied with being vice-president, explaining: "What I'm trying to focus on is doing as much of God's work as possible right now."
Reacting to Vance's comments about the Antichrist, Dreher said: "This might sound bonkers to someone who is outside the Christian religion, but it is a very, very common belief within Christianity."
He said his friend was simply reflecting that the world appeared to be going "crazy" through the rapid development of AI and ongoing conflicts.
Dreher, who was present when Vance was received into the Catholic Church, said Ronald Reagan had made similar comments when he was the US president, and that this was seen as "perfectly normal" by his voters.
Vance converted to Catholicism in 2019, then in his mid-30s, and has described how the Church resonated with his family and social values and his conservative politics.
Since becoming vice-president, he has occasionally tangled with Pope Leo and his papal predecessor Francis, on issues including the Trump administration's immigration policy.
Vance is due to appear behind the lectern on Thursday afternoon to deliver the first White House press briefing since the departure of Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
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He's still got that bible thumper evangelical mentality. I went thru RCIA and we never talked about the end times, the rapture, or much about the Anti-Christ. From what I remember, anybody can be an anti-Christ if you're not a believer.
Anyway...there is an Anti-Christ walking among us. He's a fat, demented, bigoted, racist, 80 year old man living in the White House. And trashing it
...regularly being orally pleasured by his army of poorly educated rightwing religious conservative sycophants who got tired of waiting around for Jesus and decided to bet it all on red.
RINO-turkey lurv Master-bullypulpit
What in evolutionary biology hell is that?!?
A Turkoserous... or a Rhinocluck, or maybe Gobblerus-Pachydermus.
have you ever noticed that most republican VP's look and act like they regularly got their asses kicked in high school?
I think Dick Cheney is the only exception in the last half century of republican tickets. He's the guy who shot the guy in the face who got his ass kicked in high school.
cheney was really the POTUS, jr bush was just the dipshit they pushed in front of the cameras ...
... while his daddy's henchmen in the cabinet completed his 2nd term, during jr's first ...
it is the end times for maga scum ...
Ironic given that Jesus was a far left wing liberal.
yep! woke as fuck!
Rise up from a tomb after 3 days and 3 nights anyone would be "woke as a fuck".
and reek like a restaurant dumpster ...
a far-left dark skinned Jewish left-wing liberal who said it would be easier to get a camel through the eye of a needle than a rich man into heaven. Jesus would be tarred, feathered and run out of any MAGA majority town today. The lie on their lips about their love for Jesus shows the world who they really are.
I don't want to go to thumper heaven, I want to sit in the bleachers to watch the maga rejects fall thru the trapdoor to hell.
And I really hope, if there is a hell, that they all get their just rewards when they get there...
in the maga quest to create hell on earth, the nothingness of death will soon seem like heaven ...
The End Times is not a thing in the Catholic faith. At least not the way evangelicals think.
Vance sucks at being a Catholic.
Vance sucks at being a _______.
Damn John ya gave me an idea for an article.
I was never taught it was. Vance is still clinging to his evangelical roots. That's probably why he thinks he knows more about theology than the Pope does
he's regurgitating his mentor peter thiel's nonsense ...
Vance recently mused on his religious views while responding to a question on a Christian podcast. He said he would "not [be] shocked if the Antichrist was walking among us" and speculated on whether the end of the world was nigh.
He might be right!
And there's really only one cure for that: Bring in the Witches!
Let them cast the appropriate spells .. that will make everything OK!!