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James Talarico: “Jesus walks into the temple... flips over the tables of the…”

Featuring: James Talarico, Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 50

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James Talarico's Beautiful Answer to Christian Nationalism | The Ezra Klein Show

Published | Video Starts at 33:33

We are rooted in something eternal, something that has existed since before time existed, and it is also always moving us forward, and we are always changing and evolving, and both of those things can be true at the same time. Jesus walks into the temple... flips over the tables of the money changers, the tables of injustice. And. And it's a profound act of protest, of civil disobedience. It's ultimately what gets him killed by the Roman Empire. (33:33–34:11)

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Asserts that Jesus's act of flipping tables in the temple was a protest against injustice.

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