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J.D. Vance Used to Be an Atheist. What He Believes Now Is Telling.
In 2021, when J.D. Vance was asked at a conference why he had converted to Catholicism just two years earlier, he had a fairly simple answer. “I really liked that the Catholic Church was just really old,” he said. This anti-modern worldview is key to …