Talarico Says He is a ‘Christian Who Hates Christianity’
Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico described himself as a “Christian who hates Christianity.”
“I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity, right?” Talarico said during an appearance on the “Activist Theology” podcast.
He explained, as reported by Fox News, “I always get drawn back into it because nowhere else, in no other political philosophy and no other economic theory do I find anything nearly as truly radical or revolutionary as the teachings of that barefoot Rabbi.” Talarico later added that “the teachings of the Buddha and other mystical traditions.”
Talarico went on to note that his “imagination is also just limited by my own background and identity, my whiteness, my masculinity, all those things limit my imagination about what’s possible. So, I have to continually press against that to try to expand the limits of what I’m dreaming of for our community.”
The Democrat also argued that Republicans who do not support transgender bathrooms are “threatening the existence” of those he cares for. “I have to work with people who have passed these policies that threaten the existence of people that I love,” he said. “Now they don’t threaten my existence, for the most part, but they threaten the existence of my friends and my loved ones. When I got elected, I went searching for those monsters, right? I got elected to the state house, and I was like, ‘I’m ready to find the monstrous people who passed these, you know, the show me your papers legislation, the bathroom bill.”
Talarico has also claimed in past interviews that the Bible does not take a stand on abortion.