James Talarico

There is literally not a faith tradition that tells you when someone gets sick, see how much money you can make off of them.

Right.

No religion teaches that.

None of them.

Right.

Right.

You know, there's no one that's, you know, love your neighbors only when they agree with you.

That's not what any of the faith traditions teach.

There is this consensus, this ethical consensus.

And the reason I think we try to pretend that all these religions are so different is because we are threatened by that moral consensus of how you should treat one another, how we should treat the least among us.

And that's a threat.

to the people who are in power, the people who run the status quo right now.

I mean, it upends the status quo.

They didn't kill Jesus for being a nice guy.

And divide everyone to keep them distracted.

This is my personal, like the more I've done this, I've done this for four terms now.

I think of politics now less as left versus right, and much more as top versus bottom.

Because I just see how we are all pitted against each other.

And I mean literally.

These social media platforms, they only get clicks when there's conflict.