James Talarico’s Pastor Is NOT a Christian

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What is the story behind James Talarico’s reverend being called “not a Christian”?

Mike Slater 0:03
Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is where we take the news of the day and bring it to the Bible so we can walk away with peace and perspective. There's
Unknown 0:12
new
Mike Slater 0:12
headlines every day, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story. Story of the day today, Tallarico's reverend is not a Christian. Obviously, either is he. Oh, Slater, don't judge. This is not judging. This is basic discernment. This person is comically not a Christian. It would be very funny if it weren't so sad to have someone lead so many other people straight to hell and distort the way of truth and God and God's word and God's son. I know we just did a Tallarico episode just the other day. James Tallarico running for Senate in Texas, of all places. We just did a segment on his reverend, Babs Miller. But the hits keep coming. We played a clip of her the other day, undercover, saying, it's okay that Tallarico lies about transgender kids.
Mike Slater 1:09
Like right now he's against transing children. And she said, whatever it takes to get elected. No worries about that lying thing. It'll just change back once he gets into office. That was the first clip we played a couple days ago of hers. By the way, she's the Reverend of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. I don't know what the story is. I got to figure this out. What is the story with these mainline churches over the last 50 years where they went from the foundational church in every town across America into the wokest places in America? This branch of the Presbyterian Church... I would put toe to toe with any women's and gender studies program at the wokest university in the country. Go find me the next meeting of the Berkeley women's and gender studies lecture.
Mike Slater 1:59
And I'll put that up against your average, just pluck any evangelical Lutheran church in America congregant. And they're just both the wokest people. Like, how did that happen? In the second clip, she said that most of the people who go to her church are either atheists or agnostic. I don't get it. What is your church? I don't know what it is. It's just a book club. I don't know. What are you doing? Just a therapy session? I don't know what the place is. All right, so here's another clip that just came out. Do we really believe that a virgin gave birth to a baby?
No.
Mike Slater 2:38
Yeah, okay. I just don't want to offend my own common sense.
Unknown 2:42
Yeah, no, don't. Absolutely don't. Part of what we encourage here is for people to think for themselves and take what makes sense. It's kind of like what they say in 12-step programs. Take what you want and leave the rest. And I know that that would greatly offend people your relatives who want to hang on to these archaic rules. Mary and the virgin birth comes out of the pagan belief that the gods came down and impregnated people, that people were still hanging on to during that time. We have no way of knowing if Jesus really existed any more than we have of knowing that the original Buddha ever existed. And whether or not Jesus existed doesn't really matter to me. The fact remains that that message that was delivered by someone named Jesus, supposedly, and it could have all been made up for all I know.
Unknown 3:48
And the God in the Old Testament is not a loving God. It's a vengeful, killing people person. kind of God.

How do the hosts expose the reverend’s theological errors in the video clip?

Unknown 4:00
This is a lot of mythology. Jesus was political. Jesus was put on that cross not to save us. Jesus was put on that cross because Rome hated him. And they thought he was a threat to their domination of that area. And so they killed him.
Mike Slater 4:19
He
Unknown 4:19
didn't die to save our sins.
Mike Slater 4:21
So he died more as a kind of a social justice warrior in some sense.
Unknown 4:26
Yes. So that makes a whole lot more sense to me than to say that some God would kill his son for us. That doesn't make sense. It never made sense. How does that make up for all the things I could do?
Mike Slater 4:41
Doesn't make sense. They don't even think Jesus existed anymore. Does she think Andrew existed? Her church is called St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. Did Andrew exist? And we don't have enough time in the world to break down all the theological errors.

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