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J. D. Vance: “It was a Christian empire, Great Britain, that abolished…”

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 27:48

Christian values are the idea that you should respect every single person, an individual, whatever their, the color of their skin, created in the image of God. That's a Christian concept. And in fact, It was a Christian empire, Great Britain, that abolished slavery to begin with. The idea that we should eliminate child sacrifice. What did the Christian settlers find when they came to the New World? They found a lot of civilizations that were murdering babies in weird religious rituals. (27:48–27:54)

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Asserts that Great Britain, as a Christian empire, was the first to abolish slavery.

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