Undercover video obtained by Breitbart News shows Texas Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico’s pastor and mentor, Rev. Jim Rigby, saying he welcomes atheists to join his church and “if you love humanity and love nature and that’s why you hate religion then we’re on the same team.”
\n\nTalarico has attended St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Austin since he was toddler and Rigby has led the congregation since the 1980s, according to a New York Times profile. “He is my pastor in every sense of the word,” Talarico said of Rigby and added he, along with his grandfather, are “the biggest influences on me as a Christian, as a human being.”
\n\nRigby also baptized Talarico and officiated the wedding of Talarico’s parents.
\n\nThe video obtained by Breitbart News shows Rigby as he prepares to speak at an event for the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). The organization says, “Western civilization shows us that most social and moral progress has been brought about by persons free from religion.”
\n\nFFRF says it is the nation’s largest “freethought association” with nearly 42,000 freethinkers: atheists, agnostics and skeptics of any pedigree.
\n\nRigby continues in the video, saying, “I’ve been on trial within the denomination…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/
