{"id":2612080,"date":"2026-06-08T16:07:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T20:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/apostasy-talarico-pastors-perverted-christianity-calling-god-him-is-violent-st-paul-is-a-creep-and-marys-a-myth\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T16:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T20:12:17","slug":"apostasy-talarico-pastors-perverted-christianity-calling-god-him-is-violent-st-paul-is-a-creep-and-marys-a-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/apostasy-talarico-pastors-perverted-christianity-calling-god-him-is-violent-st-paul-is-a-creep-and-marys-a-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"Apostasy: Talarico Pastor&#8217;s Perverted Christianity &#8211; Calling God &#8216;Him&#8217; Is Violent, St. Paul Is a &#8216;Creep,&#8217; and Mary&#8217;s a Myth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fapostasy-talarico-pastors-perverted-christianity-calling-god-him-is-violent-st-paul-is-a-creep-and-marys-a-myth%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2612080&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The text is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scientific-american-op-ed-claiming-sex-is-binary-is-bad-science\/\" title=\"Sex being binary is bad science, says Scientific American Op-Ed.\">opinion piece arguing<\/a> that a New York Times article (framed as addressing \u201cBettereidge\u2019s law\u201d for question-mark headlines) effectively shows why Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-hawley-fiercely-grills-garland-over-arrest-of-mark-houck-in-front-of-his-children\/\" title=\"WATCH: Hawley Fiercely Grills Garland Over Arrest Of Mark Houck In Front Of His Children\">faith views<\/a> are incompatible with traditional Christian doctrine.<\/p>\n<p>It claims talarico is typically marketed as a \u201cPresbyterian seminarian,\u201d but that the congregation and pastor he is tied to (Jim Rigby at St. Andrew\u2019s Presbyterian Church in Austin) teach a form of Christianity the author portrays as redefining or <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >diluting core biblical teachings<\/a>. Examples cited include Rigby\u2019s handling of Apostle Paul (including congregational reactions labeling Paul \u201cvillain,\u201d \u201chomophobic,\u201d and \u201cjerk\u201d),his references to other religions\/ancient thinkers to make Paul seem acceptable,and his approach to God\u2019s language and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/university-of-idaho-settles-christian-students-lawsuit\/\" title=\"University of Idaho Settles Christian Students\u2019 Lawsuit\">biblical interpretation<\/a> (including nonbinary language for God and treating parts of Scripture as mythological rather than ancient).<\/p>\n<p>The author further argues that Rigby\u2019s public activism-such as sheltering an undocumented woman from ICE, hosting baptisms connected to transgender identity, and welcoming an atheist member-is used to cast the church positively, but that this does not, in the author\u2019s view, address the underlying theological departures. The piece also references the annunciation of Mary in relation to abortion to claim the pastor\u2019s views undermine a conventional pro-life reading.<\/p>\n<p>it concludes that the Times\u2019 question (\u201cAre Texans ready\u2026?\u201d) answers itself: according to the author, Talarico\u2019s Christianity works more as a political or social instrument than as orthodox biblical faith, making statewide electability unlikely with voters expecting conventional doctrine.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>For those of you unfamiliar with how media tropes work, there\u2019s something called \u201cBetteridge\u2019s law of headlines.\u201d Put simply, the law is this: If a headline ends in a question mark, the answer is always \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I mention this because I can only assume that the folks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/01\/us\/politics\/james-talarico-christian.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a> \u2014 which, remains the newspaper of record in and from these United States, despite all evidence that it shouldn\u2019t be \u2014 know about it, if not at the authorship level than at least at the editorial one.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, what does it tell you that the semi-official mouthpiece of the Democratic Party published a piece last Monday that went largely under the radar, titled \u201cAre Texans Ready for Talarico\u2019s Kind of Christianity?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At least they already know the answer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/seem-creepy-youtube-editor-syncs-james-talarico-clips-finds-something-remarkable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talarico<\/a>, as you probably know, is described very, <em>very <\/em>frequently using the two word construct \u201cPresbyterian seminarian,\u201d mostly to launder him as the \u201cfaith and values\u201d candidate in the 2026 Texas Senate race.<\/p>\n<p>(Republican nominee Ken Paxton, the state\u2019s attorney general, has a much longer record of supporting causes dear to Christian voters, but also a record of personal behavior that invariably gets reported as spotty, especially as regards his wife seeking divorce against him last year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ken-paxtons-senator-wife-files-divorce-biblical-grounds-shakes-primary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201con biblical grounds.\u201d<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresbyterian seminarian\u201d is not precisely a statement of morals, however, or of biblical orthodoxy. This is made clear by the lede to the Times\u2019 dissection of Talarico\u2019s congregation and faith leader:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>On a recent Sunday morning at St. Andrew\u2019s Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas, Jim Rigby asked his congregation to  what came to mind when he mentioned the Apostle Paul, the major Christian figure to whom 13 books in the Bible are attributed. They cheerfully complied:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cVillain!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHomophobic!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHe\u2019s a jerk.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Paul\u2019s attributed writings include passages seen as encouraging wives to submit to their husbands and instructing them to be quiet in church, and others condemning same-sex sexual behavior as sinful.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Amazing, this version of Christianity. In Soviet Presbyterian congregation, God doesn\u2019t judge you, <em>you<\/em> judge God!<\/p>\n<p>How did Rigby reconcile his congregation\u2019s heresy with reality? By, um, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/blasphemous-california-tech-company-offers-paid-video-calls-ai-jesus-avatar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">citing other religions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Mr. Rigby acknowledged the trouble. But in a sermon that also cited the Bhagavad Gita and the Buddha, he nudged his congregation to reconsider the apostle, one of the most important in the early Christian church. \u201cAristotle and Plato, they were creeps, too, in modern times,\u201d Mr. Rigby said. \u201cBut do we want to learn from our ancestors or not?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The apostle Paul has written roughly half of the books in the New Testament, which means if you can\u2019t defend his writing as canonical and binding on its own terms, you\u2019re already in trouble. But when you decide that you need to get Buddhism and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/indian-christians-face-rising-levels-persecution-hindu-nationalism-grows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hinduism<\/a> and ancient Greek philosophers to make him look all right, there are, to put it mildly, <em>issues<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And therein lies the problem for Talarico: Rigby, who began leading the congregation roughly 40 years ago and remains \u201ca well-known activist locally,\u201d is now \u201ca key to understanding Mr. Talarico, a candidate who aims to be the first Democrat to win statewide office in Texas in a generation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is my pastor in every sense of the word,\u201d Talarico has said of Rigby. \u201cNot that we agree on everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think every Christian disagrees with their pastor. And the beautiful thing about Dr. Jim is that he welcomes and encourages that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even Mr. Betteridge, the British journalist who lent his name to the concept when he wrote about it in <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090226202006\/http:\/\/www.technovia.co.uk\/2009\/02\/techcrunch-irresponsible-journalism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2009<\/a>, might be impressed by the aplomb which the Times delivered on that \u201cNo,\u201d in bold, underlined, size-72 font. Because Talarico would effectively have to disagree with basically all of Rigby\u2019s operative concepts of biblical morality in order to answer that question in the affirmative.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, take this passage in which we learn, if by proxy, where Talarico got his \u201cGod is nonbinary\u201d prattle\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Mr. Rigby does not use male pronouns for God, for example, because it is a kind of \u201cviolence\u201d to imply to a girl that her brother is more like God than she is, he said in an interview after the service. He does not use the word \u201cLord,\u201d because it conjures a wealthy, European, male God, he said. For that matter, he added, he does not much care for the word \u201cGod.\u201d He uses it on occasion, he said, but he tries to use synonyms, because \u201cit\u2019s going to mean something different to everybody.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In his sermon that morning, he had referred to \u201cthe creative impulse of the universe,\u201d which \u201ccan be called God, but it doesn\u2019t have to be called God.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If that last part sounds conspicuously like crypto-atheism, let me also note that atheists are apparently just fine with the congregation, too.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>His efforts as an activist are closely entwined with his steering of the church. St. Andrew\u2019s has sheltered a Guatemalan woman and her son from ICE, hosted a naming ceremony and baptism for a transgender man, and welcomed a self-described atheist as a member. (The church also does uncontroversial work, including hosting weekly meals where homeless people can also shower and do laundry at facilities the church installed in one of its wings.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe church also does uncontroversial work.\u201d Next time there\u2019s an air disaster, I would like nothing more to see \u201cthe plane flew most of the time\u201d somewhere in the New York Times\u2019 coverage to excuse away the time it plunged into the ocean. Really, just grade-A journalisming here.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and what about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/deep-dive-story-jesus-divine-conception-not-support-abortion-no-matter-dem-senate-candidates-claim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">annunciation of Mary<\/a>, which Talarico says provides a biblical defense for abortion because it means God \u201ccannot force someone to create\u201d?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Mr. Rigby recalled preaching on the passage in the past. He wasn\u2019t bothered by the fact that in the text, the angel does not, in fact, \u201cask\u201d Mary if she accepts the pregnancy, as Mr. Talarico framed it, but rather tells her it will happen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s mythological, not historical,\u201d Mr. Rigby said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What makes the story of Mary really radical, he said, is that she was poor, and the Scripture records her calling for the rich and mighty to be brought down from their thrones.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There you have it: Christianity is useful myth, not the Word of God, for the stripe of \u201cPresbyterian seminarian\u201d Talarico embodies.<\/p>\n<p>Fittingly enough, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Romans%201&#038;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Romans 1<\/a>, Paul himself describes the situation fairly accurately:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God\u2019s invisible qualities\u2014his eternal power and divine nature\u2014have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator\u2014who is forever praised. 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