“'Whether or not Jesus existed doesn’t really matter to me,” said one of the pastors at his church."
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"Over the past day, the Daily Wire and the Blaze published twin interviews showing two pastors at Texas Senate candidate James Talarico’s home church, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, disavowing Jesus Christ and Christianity in shockingly blunt terms.
"The first, from the Daily Wire, features the “nonbinary and lesbian” Rev. Babs Miller.
"“Whether or not Jesus existed doesn’t really matter to me,” she said. “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.”
"While the Rev. Babs maintained epistemic uncertainty as to Christ’s existence — “We have no way of knowing if Jesus really existed any more than we do of knowing that the original Buddha existed” — she was confident enough in His lack of love for us so as to conclude that He “didn’t die to save our sins.”
"Quite clearly, much of the reason the Rev. Miller proclaims herself to be a pastor is that she is titillated by doing so while at the same time mocking God and His Church.
"If the “nonbinary” pastor’s statements are unbelievably outrageous, the head pastor’s comments — obtained by the Blaze — are even more so.
"The video interview starts off with the Rev. Jim Rigby (whom James Talarico has referred to as one of “the biggest influences on [him] as a Christian, as a human being”) being asked if he believes in the virgin birth.
"His answer was clear: “I don’t.” . . .
"“I don’t believe in a progressive or conservative Christianity; I believe in a biblical Christianity,” Talarico also told the Times. “My faith is rooted in Scripture and the teachings of Jesus Christ.”
"But a man who has chosen to make St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church his home church has in fact entered into a world that is hardly Christian. It is a place that professes a different religion, one where the existence of Christ is unknowable and all human spiritualities are equivalent made-up mythologies that attempt to understand man’s role in the cosmos. Each person is understood to be, as Rigby put it, “a child of the stars” — and not, in fact, a child of God.
"James Talarico wants to make his “Christianity” the center of his Senate campaign. But this is very much not Christianity at all.
"When you claim Christ’s Incarnation proves we should be able to murder unborn children, you can no longer claim to belong to His Church." . . .
Ellie Gardey Holmes is Reporter and Associate Editor at The American Spectator. . . . She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where she studied political science, philosophy, and journalism. Ellie has previously written for the Daily Caller, College Fix, and Irish Rover.
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