JD Vance discovers the Nicene Creed in a yard sign
It is always funny when the people calling everyone fragile need theological rescue from a yard sign.
JD Vance has apparently reached the part of Catholic conversion where he sees a yard sign and hears the Council of Nicaea screaming.
“Love is love” is not a theological coup. It is a bumper sticker with aspirations of fellowship. Vance, seeing heresy in it, says less about the sign than about the man wandering through America looking for things to baptize into grievances.
This is Vance’s grift: finding the smallest available object and inflating it until it becomes a holy war he can lose on purpose. The sign may be nothing more than brunch morality printed on corrugated plastic, but Vance cannot just say, “I hate that sign.” He has to drag Nicaea into it, because the modern right’s whole hobby is pretending every ugly rectangle on a neighbor’s lawn is the Battle of Lepanto. He thinks it makes him sound smart and pious. He sounds like a jerk.
It is always funny when the people calling everyone fragile need theological rescue from a yard sign.
The interviewer didn't (of course?) ask vance to state the 'Nicene creed' and explain how declaring 'no human is illegal' violates it? @#$! By the bye, for the godless among us (including moi) The Nicene creed amounts to: There is only one God, and that one God is father, son, and holy ghost (yes 1≠3 but that's the big secret, right?) and Jesus is divine. that's essentially it. nothing against any yard signs there.
He's like a terrible anti-Mae West.
The Nicene Creed had nothing to do with that sign.
(And "Credo blah blah blah..." is way older than Nicea.)