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J. D. Vance: “Freedom of religion is actually a Christian concept.”

Featuring: J. D. Vance, Republican | Vice President of the United States | National

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VP Vance speaks at Turning Point event at Ole Miss | LiveNOW from FOX

Published | Video Starts at 26:22

And actually if you go back to the original founding documents of the United States of America, if you go back to the Anglo legal tradition well before there was ever a United States of America, what you find is that the Freedom of religion is actually a Christian concept. And the reason, and the reason it's a Christian concept is very simple. Because Christianity imago day, the idea that we are all made in the image of our Creator means that we must respect the free will of every single person. (26:22–26:26)

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Asserts that the concept of freedom of religion originates from Christianity.

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