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N<\/span>ow that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has roundly defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the Republican runoff primary for Cornyn\u2019s U.S. Senate seat (Paxton won by 25 percentage points), the real battle begins.<\/p>\n

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Paxton\u2019s opponent on the Democrat Party ticket is James Talarico, a former teacher and member of the Texas House of Representatives who holds a master of divinity from the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Right on cue, leftists who ordinarily despise Republicans and Christians are singing the praises of Cornyn and Talarico.<\/p>\n

We shouldn\u2019t be surprised. Democrats wax rhapsodic about Republicans when they defect to the Democrat Party, lose an election, or die. As for Talarico, he is the Left\u2019s idea of a perfect Christian: one who assures them that their every political and personal impulse is A-OK with the Big Guy Upstairs.\u00a0(RELATED: The Incredibly, Unacceptably Weird James Talarico)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Politicians routinely ignore the extent to which their religious faith (such as it is) is inconsistent with their personal behavior or their policy prescriptions. But Talarico is running around the country giving interviews in which he declares his<\/em> views on government policy to be the truly \u201cChristian\u201d ones.<\/p>\n

On Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast, for example, Talarico objected to posting the Ten Commandments in classrooms, saying, \u201cI think my concern is for the Muslim kid and the Jewish kid, the Hindu kid, the atheist kid who\u2019s sitting in a classroom who now has a poster on the wall forced by the government that says, you know, your religion is inferior or you\u2019re not welcome here.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll leave aside the question about why Jewish students would be offended by the Torah; Talarico is misstating the purpose of posting the Ten Commandments, using the hypothetical feelings of imaginary children. The Ten Commandments are not posted to shame nonbelievers; they are posted to affirm that the United States was founded upon Judeo-Christian principles, which it was, and that those principles \u2014 including the Ten Commandments \u2014 are a vital part of our history and culture. It is precisely those principles that enable a \u201cMuslim kid\u201d or \u201cHindu kid\u201d to be respected and safe here<\/em> \u2014 unlike a Christian kid or a Hindu kid in a Muslim nation.<\/p>\n

Talarico has also stated that neither the Bible nor Jesus says anything about abortion. He doesn\u2019t mention the prophet Jeremiah, who wrote that God said of him, \u201cBefore I formed you in the womb, I knew you\u201d (Jeremiah 1:5). Or what about, \u201cThou shalt not kill\u201d? (There are those pesky Ten Commandments again.) Neither of those statements were Christ\u2019s, but He was an observant Jew who followed the Torah, and He did<\/em> say, \u201cDo not think I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them\u201d (Matthew 5:17).<\/p>\n

Talarico claims that the only people Christ condemned were hypocritical religious leaders. He conveniently ignores Christ\u2019s admonitions against fornication and adultery (Matthew 5:27-30), as well as His warnings that if someone leads others into sin, \u201cIt would be better if a millstone were hung about his neck and he were drowned in the sea\u201d (Matthew 18:6).<\/p>\n

There are plenty more, and they\u2019re easy to find \u2014 and to refute.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s vital to understand is that Paxton must start by challenging Talarico\u2019s deeply flawed biblical exegesis.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s vital to understand is that Paxton must start by challenging Talarico\u2019s deeply flawed biblical exegesis. This is perhaps counter to the advice of the typical campaign consultant, which is to steer clear of attacking an opponent\u2019s religious views. But we\u2019re no longer in the realm of typical political campaigns. Talarico\u2019s butchered Christianity is<\/em> his campaign. If Paxton avoids addressing Talarico\u2019s biblical views, he\u2019ll lose, and badly.<\/p>\n

Talarico is holding himself out as a deep thinker and a moderate Democrat, deliberately clothing himself in misstated teachings of Jesus Christ in such a way as to render his policy preferences impervious to political attacks because they are \u2014 by his lights \u2014 grounded in Christian theology. To leave those distorted interpretations unaddressed is to play by Talarico\u2019s rules and concede territory with constituents that Paxton cannot afford to lose. There are plenty of people \u2014 even in Texas \u2014 too ill-informed or too swayed by appeals to emotion, sympathy, and \u201ccompassion\u201d to question Talarico\u2019s theological claims. (RELATED: James Talarico: The Wolf in Sunday\u2019s Clothing)<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Paxton\u2019s favor, this is a good time to challenge the Left\u2019s exploitation of words like \u201ccompassion\u201d (under the guise of religion or anything else), as the public is finally waking up to the ways they\u2019ve been manipulated by it. Former reality TV star Spencer Pratt has garnered enormous support in his campaign for mayor of Los Angeles by exposing the destruction wrought in that city by policies proclaimed to be \u201ccompassionate.\u201d And just two weeks ago, Canadian professor, author, and popular X personality Gad Saad released his book Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind<\/em>, which has already rocketed to the top of the New York Times, Publishers Weekly,<\/em> and Audible bestseller lists. That suggests the purchasing public already recognizes the truth of what Saad has written. (Saad is moving to the United States to take a faculty position at the University of Mississippi. Hotty Toddy!)<\/p>\n

A groundswell of opposition to weaponized compassion is happening around the world as well. In England, the brand-new political party Restore Britain, launched by Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe, is making waves with its stated positions to deport illegal migrants, reject the Islamification of Great Britain, and strengthen traditional British culture. In a recent Norfolk County Council election, candidates sponsored by Restore Britain swept all nine available seats. A parliamentary by-election is coming up next month in the U.K. constituency of Makerfield. Conventional wisdom says that Restore Britain candidate Rebecca Shepherd can\u2019t win. But they said that about Norfolk.<\/p>\n

Paxton doesn\u2019t have to attempt to be holier than thou or a theological expert to challenge Talarico\u2019s misstatements about Jesus Christ and Christianity. In fact, the best approach would be for Paxton to say something like, \u201cI\u2019m not standing here telling you that I\u2019m a man without flaws. The Lord knows better than anyone my shortcomings. But neither will I stand before the people of Texas and tell them that Jesus had nothing to say about killing babies in the womb, or that He would agree that a man can become a woman or vice versa, or that He would say it\u2019s \u2018love\u2019 to chemically castrate and surgically mutilate children who are suffering from various emotional and psychological disorders and are far too young to fully comprehend the future implications of what\u2019s being done to them. Or that allowing hundreds and thousands of criminals to pour into America from other countries is \u2018Christian.\u2019 If James Talarico cannot be trusted to tell you the truth about what the Bible says, he cannot be trusted to tell you the truth about the policies he supports. But I will tell you that. And here\u2019s what they are \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

At that<\/em> point, Paxton will not only have the public\u2019s attention about Talarico\u2019s political positions; he will have undermined the moral authority Talarico is confecting to prevent any legitimate scrutiny of those positions.<\/p>\n

Mr. Paxton, have at it.<\/p>\n

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