Jane Coaston

J.D.

Vance converting to Catholicism because he thinks it will benefit him politically, that it will surround him with the kinds of people who can help him.

The ways in which we see someone like Russell Brand or any number of right-leaning-ish figures who have decided that they are going to become culturally Christian or culturally Catholic...

There is a well-known anti-Muslim campaigner who has converted to or says that she is no longer an atheist, kind of a Christian, but she's like, you know, we have to stand up for the West.

The point, the point of Christianity is not to win.

The point of Christianity is that losing is,

is okay because we will, we will win in the end.

It is not that, you know, you're going to win an election.

It is not that you're going to win the white house.

It's not that people are going to vote for you.

It is that like you will win in the ultimate end.

I'm sorry.

I get like very annoyed about this.

Like I keep thinking about examples.

My mom,

Was a convert.

And my mom was definitely an adherent to a very like left leaning type of Catholicism liberation theology, which people might know.

And we talked a lot about figures like Father Oscar Romero, who was shot.

Yeah.

Who was shot to death in El Salvador while performing mass.