Joe Rogan and JD Vance Clash Over Mandating Ten Commandments in Public Schools: ‘Agree to Disagree’

JD Vance told Joe Rogan a Texas law forcing public schools to display the Ten Commandments isn’t about pushing Christianity on kids.

The vice president engaged in a lengthy back and forth with the podcast host on his show, the Joe Rogan Experience, for a sit down that dropped Wednesday and included a range of topics, including how President Donald Trump‘s administration handled the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Rogan brought up recent podcast guest Texas Senate candidate James Talarico (D), who is facing off against state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in a surprisingly competitive race.

“One of the things that I think he has a really good point about, even though I know you’re Catholic and you’re very religious, putting the Ten Commandments in schools, I don’t think is the right way to do,” Rogan  noting Talarico “is very Christian.”

“He just thinks that even though he believes in the Ten Commandments, if you’re just only representing the Christian faith in these schools, you’re forcing your religion into other people’s lives and that this is going to push people away from Christianity rather than encourage them to uh pursue it,” he added.

Vance disagreed:

JD VANCE: I don’t think putting the Ten Commandments up in school is like forcing things on anybody.

JOE ROGAN: But it’s public schools. So I mean, if you’re going to do that, why not put Buddhist scripture? Why not put, you know, you Muslim’s stuff? You could make an argument why you should have a bunch of different religious tenants in schools.

VANCE: I think in the Supreme Court there actually are a lot of different sort of historical, cultural, legal documents that are up there. And I want to say that Moses coming down with a tablet is one of them.

But I think there actually are other cultural and maybe even other religious elements of this like, where you recognize that a big part of sort of the lawgiving tradition in Western civilization is the is some of these religious texts, not exclusively Christian religious texts.

Obviously some Jewish there’s like a an important contribution from the Muslim world in this. So I don’t, I guess, I don’t think of it as exclusionary while also recognizing that, you know, America is a society.

Our founders were people who were very much influenced even if they weren’t Christians, a lot of them of course were, but were very influenced by Christian culture and articulating American law.

So my argument would be even if you’re not a Christian, like, does seeing the Ten Commandments, let me put it a slightly different way.

Does seeing the Ten Commandments force religion on a non-Christian child? I mean, my argument would be no. And I’d illustrate this by saying, well, there are all of these ways in which you actually could try to force religion on a child, right?

ROGAN: Well, it’s not the worst way to force religion on a child, but to have it and not represent any other religion. This is Texas, by the way.

VANCE: Sure.

ROGAN:  So, what he’s talking about was that there’s these Christian nationalists, these these guys that are very wealthy that are trying to fund Christian schools and trying to defund public schools, or any other kind of religious school, and what they want to do, and and they passed this to get the Ten Commandments in all public school classes.

And he’s fundamentally opposed to that as a Christian because he thinks it’s going to force people to have this in their class and it’s gonna push people away from Christianity

VANCE: I mean, I understand the argument. I just don’t see it that way.

ROGAN: I kind of agree with him.

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