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Posted on 06/26/2026 8:59:22 PM PDT by Red Badger
Texas Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico said many white churches do not reflect the Jesus described in the Gospels and argued that black churches have a “deeper and more accurate” understanding of what it means to follow Jesus.
Speaking on the September 2024 podcast titled “Holy Conversation: Faith and Politics,” Talarico said too many white churches focus on the afterlife instead of on “freeing the oppressed and healing the sick and feeding the hungry.”
“Too many white churches are focused on the afterlife and not really much on this life,” Talarico said. “In my opinion, a lot of white churches don’t resemble the Jesus we meet in the Gospels of being out in the world, of freeing the oppressed and healing the sick and feeding the hungry.”
Talarico also praised black churches, saying they have a better understanding of what it means to follow Jesus than many white churches.
“And in the black churches that I’ve been in, they, I think because of their position in this country historically and currently, have a much deeper and more accurate understanding of what it means to follow Jesus in the 21st century,” Talarico continued. “So I’m glad that we are learning from black churches. I know my church has up in North Austin, and it sounds like this church is.”
Talarico has criticized Christianity. Earlier this year, the Texas state representative and Presbyterian seminarian told The New Yorker that Christianity is the “most violent” religion and has caused “damage” to Islam.
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The segregation itself is testament to both being a too culture-centered instead of Christ-centered. But it’s true that Evangelicals in white churches today have inherited their habits from Jim Crow-era believers who didn’t bat an eye to anything in their time. So go figure.
Talarico doesn’t understand Jesus, so why would he think he’s qualified to determine who understands Jesus and who doesn’t?
“a lot of white churches don’t resemble the Jesus we meet in the Gospels of being out in the world, of freeing the oppressed and healing the sick and feeding the hungry.”
Of course what Talarico means by “healing the sick” is socialized health care, “feeding the hungry” as expanding the welfare state, and “freeing the oppressed” as affirming LGBTQ+++++.
So in that sense yes, “White” churches aren’t doing so well. And thank God we aren’t.
Hey Zeus, that Talarico character is a real nut-case.
Actually, there are indeed a number of so-called “Black churches” that indeed do as compared to the denomination / church he personally attends, and I bet they don’t house and distributed pornographic materials like his church does: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4381366/posts
Suppose a church is half black and half white.
Do they understand only half of the Gospels?
If so, which half?
Or suppose a church has only a few black members. And they’re all happen to be absent on a Sunday.
Does the understanding of that church automatically drop, but only temporarily?
This theological stuff sure is confusing.
🤔
Has this guy said anything normal?
Normal for who?
Normal for him ?
Or normal for the rest of us?.............
He has to pander to the Negros because Jasmine dissed him.
i can just hear the guy, ‘but i’m in no way partial to black churches.’
LOL, you and your anti-Evangelical, anti-Protestant America bitterness.
If you want friendly helpful people and high trust of each other in a nation, Protestant, and Evangelical is the way to go.
> Has this guy said anything normal? <
I guess it’s a Texas Democrat thing. Beto O’Rourke once said that he eats magic dirt.
I heard Beto has a Tallywacker Barbie bobblehead on his socks chest of drawers at home right next to his Davy Hogg bobblehead.
Kissing up to a certain electorate.
LOL! Exactly the kind of leftist lunacy you’d expect from Talafreako.
aims ye James
He’s probably said he ain’t no ways tard.
Can Texas be stoopid enough to elect this POS?
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