Some Agreement.

 https://holypost.substack.com/p/i-welcome-the-blue-wave-not-the-blue?r=28q7xt&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

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Throughout their campaigns, I found myself in the odd position, as a Christian and a pastor, of wishing both Paxton and Talarico would talk less about Jesus. It’s not that I think politicians need to keep their beliefs quiet. It’s that both Paxton and Talarico’s versions of faith seem to fit so tidily into their political parties’ priorities. Talarico, very famously, stumbled through a specious theological argument about how God is for abortion rights because he asked for Mary’s consent before Jesus’s miraculous conception. He has quoted the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas in sermons. He seems at times contemptuous of traditional Christian sexual ethics. He referred to women as “neighbors with a uterus.” In short, he’s a pretty typical progressive, mainline seminary student. This doesn’t mean I think he shouldn’t have a voice (or a senate seat, for that matter), but it also does not represent anything all that unique or countercultural. It’s predictable. Same old.

Already, media outlets are hailing Talarico’s victory as a new rise of the religious left. But simply replacing a partisan and politically captive religious right with an equally partisan and politically captive religious left is still harmful for the church and for her public witness."

 

I'm gonna guess that I don't agree with much that the author would believe either theologically or politically, but I think that she is spot on with her assessment of the DFL sudden;y embracing Talarico and Hamilton and their christianity.