{"id":522117,"date":"2026-08-20T10:42:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/?p=522117"},"modified":"2026-08-20T10:42:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:42:32","slug":"god-is-not-christian-and-god-is-nonbinary-texas-senate-candidates-controversial-sermons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/god-is-not-christian-and-god-is-nonbinary-texas-senate-candidates-controversial-sermons\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGod is not Christian\u201d and \u201cGod is nonbinary\u201d: Texas Senate candidate\u2019s controversial sermons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Texas Democratic Senate candidate <strong>James Talarico<\/strong>, a Presbyterian seminarian, has drawn attention for his unconventional views on religion. In a 2023 sermon, he said <strong>\u201cGod is not Christian\u201d<\/strong> and argued that God is beyond human religious categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Talarico has also said that <strong>\u201cGod is nonbinary\u201d<\/strong> and has described himself as a <strong>\u201cChristian who hates Christianity.\u201d<\/strong> He has criticized the idea that the United States is a Christian nation and warned against using religion to justify hatred or political gain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His spokesperson defended his position, saying Talarico is a Christian seminarian who has devoted his life to the teachings of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian, has drawn attention for his unconventional views on religion. In a 2023 sermon, he said \u201cGod is not Christian\u201d and argued that God is beyond human religious categories. Talarico has also said that \u201cGod is nonbinary\u201d and has described himself as a \u201cChristian who hates Christianity.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":522118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[611,40230],"class_list":["post-522117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-deultimominuto","tag-united-states"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2bPf","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/6a86eaba59bf5b73e60c6fbc.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Edith B\u00e1ez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-11-at-11.09.56-AM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/6a86eaba59bf5b73e60c6fbc.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}