US Vice President J.D. Vance spoke in an interview with Fox News about how the falling glass incident at a conference brought him closer to converting to the Catholic faith. According to the politician, this sign, as well as a car accident that happened on the way from his grandmother’s funeral, convinced him to abandon atheism.
Vance earlier this year released a memoir about his conversion to Catholicism, Communion, which was immediately criticized for its cover featuring the Methodist Christian Church. The Republican was first baptized into Catholicism in 2019, several years before entering big politics.
“At one conference, I was discussing Christianity and Catholicism with a friend, and at some point a glass fell from the wall. An atheist would not attach any importance to this: “What difference does it make that the glass fell?” But at that moment I felt that God was trying to convey a message to me,” Vance, 41, said in an interview.
Donald Trump's likely successor noted that he grew up an evangelical Christian by his grandmother, but later became an atheist while attending Harvard and serving in Iraq.
According to him, he began to think about faith while communicating with Christians in conservative circles, and the incident with the glass, as well as the accident in which he almost died, convinced him to accept baptism.
“The car was overturning and it was not clear when it would stop. In the end, she came to a perfect, gentle stop right next to the mountain cliff. Perhaps the laws of physics can explain it, but at that moment I felt the touch of God,” Vance said.
As The Atlantic previously noted, both stories are contained in “Communion,” which topped Amazon's top selling political memoir and the New York Times bestseller list when it was released in June. In the book, Vance clarified that the glass story involved a wine glass that “suddenly jumped from its stable place on the shelf” that was located behind the bar where he and a friend were sitting.
In August, The Washington Post (WP) reported that Trump urged donors from his past campaigns to support Vance in the 2028 presidential election at a private event.
Publicly, Trump has declined to make specific comments on the matter. He noted that he would like to see Vance run jointly with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, without specifying which of them he sees as president and which as vice president.
