Vance condemns San Diego mosque attack as 'reprehensible' and fundamentally opposed to Christianity

Investigators reportedly found hate speech and anti-Islamic writing inside the vehicle of the suspected shooters — Cain Clark, 17, and Caleb Vazquez, 18, — who killed themselves soon after the attack on the city’s largest mosque.

Authorities have found a suicide note referencing racial pride, and items like a Nazi SS insignia from the attackers.

On Tuesday, US officials seized over 30 firearms, including pistols, rifles, shotguns, and a crossbow, from residences linked to the attackers.

Vance framed the attack, which US authorities are investigating as a hate crime rather than terrorism, as fundamentally opposed to Christianity.

He described religious violence as “particularly disgusting“ in America and said, “as a devout Christian, I would say it is one of the most anti-Christian things and anti-American things that you could do.“

In the same remarks, Vance explicitly tied his condemnation of the violence to his Christian faith and Christian heritage, saying, “One of the fundamental American rights that I think came from our Christian heritage as a civilisation is the idea that we respect people’s religious freedom in part because we respect them as human being but also because we respect their right to find their own pathway to God…”

“So, when you commit acts of violence, you‘re committing an act against this fundamental idea that people are created in the image of God and if they have the right through their own free will to find God however they might want…,” he added.

The US vice president said anyone who commits violence against another human being in the name of religion is “doing something that is a violation, of course, of the laws of man, but I think more importantly, it is a fundamental violation of the laws of God.”