James Talarico on Redefining Christianity

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A lot of Gen Z, a lot of my fellow millennials when they

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hear me talking about, you know, my my faith and how it informs my my public service, they're like, I've I've never

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heard of this kind of Christianity, right? Like I was told that if you wanted to be a Christian, you had to get

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hate gay people. Uh, if you want to be a Christian, you had to want to control women. Uh, if you wanted to be a Christian, you had to reject science.

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And so when Gen Z and and when millennials were faced with that choice, it was a pretty easy choice for them,

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right? They chose their gay friends, they chose women's rights, they chose believing in science. And that, in my

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opinion, was always a false choice. Um, and in fact, a lot of those positions that I just mentioned are are contrary

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to biblical values, to the teachings of Jesus. And so, you know, there's always

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going to be progressive Christians and conservative Christians. That's a very healthy debate we should always have.

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But in this country, it's become synonymous with right-wing politics. So much so that when people hear I'm a

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Christian politician, they just assume I'm I'm a Republican. I mean, so it's just I think that has

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pushed a lot of a lot of people away.