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Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

Pastor Joe Rigney Debunks Hillary Clinton's Hit Piece Against Him

Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

The First Digital Inc.

Christianity, Politics, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.9592 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Pastor Joe Rigney was targeted in a hit piece about Christian empathy from Hillary Clinton. He joins Mike Slater to respond. This is part two of a two part episode on weaponized empathy that aired on The First TV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is part two of our episode. I was going to say Maga's War on Empathy.

0:05.5

That's what Hillary Clinton wrote in her Atlantic article, Magas War on Empathy. Our special is about weaponized empathy, which is exactly what Hillary Clinton is doing in this article here.

0:15.3

She wrote the article about Dr. Joe Rigney. So here is Dr. Joe Rigney.

0:41.1

Welcome back to the first TV. Our special here, weaponized empathy. Let's go right to the man of the hour. Dr. Joe Rigney, author of the book, The Sin of Empathy. And also main target of Hillary Clinton's most recent article, MAGA's war on empathy. Dr. Rigney, how you doing, sir? I'm doing great. I'm, you know, I'm still alive,

0:47.0

breathing. I do know how to swim. I'm in perfectly good health and I have no suicidal thoughts

0:52.3

whatsoever.

0:57.0

Just to be clear, everyone. How did you hear that she wrote an article about you?

1:00.0

You know, I think so.

1:01.0

I think I'd seen online.

1:02.0

She mentions both me and Alibeth Stuckey.

1:05.0

Both of us have written books on this weaponized empathy idea. And so I saw the Aliie Beth mention it. And I thought, oh, that's cool that Hillary went after her. And then I went and tracked down the article and realized like, oh, no, she called me an extremist pastor. It's Christmas. And so we got cupcakes and had a big party. This is great. All right. Can we roll through some of it?

1:27.6

I underlined a bunch.

1:28.4

Yeah.

1:29.4

First paragraph.

1:30.9

So you're talking about Alex Prady and Renee go to Minneapolis.

1:33.8

Jesus tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves and to help those in need.

1:38.3

Do this and you will live, he says, Jesus says, not in Donald Trump's America.

1:43.3

What do you say to that? Yeah, so this is what

1:46.1

progressives want to do is they have their own agenda, they have their vision, they have their

1:51.3

totalitarian ideas, and they want to neutralize Christians from resisting it. And so they think if

1:57.5

they just repeat Bible phrases filled with vacuous content and twisted, that Christians will back off.

2:03.5

Well, I don't want to not love my neighbor, so I guess I just need to get out of the way.

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