Christy Thomas
Patheos
Frisco, TX, United States
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The Hypocrisy Exposed Of The “Gay Sex Is Sin” Cadre
The vote: hypocrisy exposed. Other's people's sexual activities (as long as it involves gay sex) are wrong and merit condemnation, but I get to keep all my sexual sins without that same condemnation. → Read More
Confessions Of A Liberal: I Need Conservatives
Liberals need conservatives; otherwise, things fall apart. Conservatives need liberals; otherwise, things get stuck. Healthy societies, held together by the cultural glue of shared assumptions can also bring in new ideas with lowered levels of fear. But it's easier to push Jesus over a cliff instead. → Read More
Poor Women To Be Mandated Baby-Makers When Abortion Outlawed
Poor women will become the designated baby-makers of our society. The well-to-do and the daughters of the well-to-do will be able to get their abortions if a pregnancy is inconvenient, embarrassing, a threat to the health of the mother, or the result of a sexual assault of some sort. → Read More
Adulting And Christian Bankruptcy: Donald Trump Has Been Good For The Nation
Let's practice the art of adulting and take responsibility for what has happened and find creative and morally sound ways to move forward. The more the church looks like Mr. Trump, i.e., white, older, exclusive, isolated, intolerant of differing views, the less it looks Christian. → Read More
Greed, Indigenous People, Saudi Arabia, And The Church
The stench of greed permeates every church or religious organization that ventures into the world of politics. Any witness for the Gospel sinks into the cesspool of backstabbing and power grabs. Every single time. → Read More
Brett Kavanaugh’s Trashed Life: Who Did The Damage?
So, to get back to Brett Kavanaugh's trashed life: if it does go down in flames, it is not because the good people of the US want that to happen. It will happen because he refused to answer questions and refuses to acknowledge that he did, at one point in his life, have a severe drinking problem. → Read More
What Is Honorable About Your Honor Brett Kavanaugh?
So, I predict that, no, Brett Kavanaugh will not be sacrificed. I predict that women will yet again be slut-shamed, silenced, and slammed against the wall to be left to bleed out, not yet seeing our hopes for justice to prevail. → Read More
Support Sexual Predators! They Are Biblical, After All
So what does the Bible to do with putting sexual predators in office? Everything. Because men are the leaders, and the little woman's job is to just stay in her nice little "protected" sphere, by definition if a woman is not "protected" SHE is in the wrong place!!!!! See, it's all her fault!!!!! → Read More
Bible-Believing Christians: Either Socialists Or Liars
Now, what do our Bible-believing Christians do? Fight for policies and elect politicians who seek to remove hope of health care for the vulnerable, that yank food from their mouths, and that make housing even more unaffordable. → Read More
Sexual Perversion, Human Decency, Church And Politics
Any organization based on secrecy and tight hierarchies, with admittance only to celibate males, and with females in hidden, subservient roles, is going to be permeated by a combination of sexual perversion and sexual frustration. → Read More
From 95% To 5% Church Attendance: Clergy Overreach Or Evil Feminists?
Depending on your perspective, the demise of the Roman Catholic Church in Quebec is either due to the evil force of clergy overreach or the evil force of the feminist movement that began in the 1960's. → Read More
We Can't Help You: Jesus Tell Us So
We can't help you. Now, if you are rich, if you are moneyed, if you think gays are intrinsically disordered and people of color should stay out of the US and are still quietly sure that women are second class, then the good religious folk can create laws to help you. → Read More
Millennials Flee The Church Because Of Lies And Sexual Discrimination
Of course educated young adults, having grown up in a multicultural and gender-fluid world, are leaving the church: they see it as a hateful and ignorant place, a place of lies and sexual discrimination. I don’t blame them. → Read More
Trump And Jesus: What Reading The Wall Street Journal Has Taught Me
He does not equate Trump and Jesus and is also able to separate Trump's despicable morality from his political leadership, something I have not been able to do. → Read More
Musings On Immigrant Children And Life Stability From The Waiting Room
But there was stability, at least for this group of people and for this period of time. However, as one who is increasingly turning to world past to make sense of the world present, I know that kind of societal stability has been more rare than abundant. → Read More
Our Memories Make Us, And Memorial Day Makes The US A Democracy
On Memorial Day, it is time to remember those who died so that we as a nation may continue this unusual experiment in self-governance called democracy. History has few examples for us to follow as we pursue the ongoing task of weaving the delicate fabric of freedom around forces that push us into less-free spaces. → Read More
The Great Divorce: Evangelicalism And Jesus
My own great divorce from Evangelism came years ago. I left because . . . well, I was kicked out. Too mouthy, inadequately submissive to male authority, and, finally, I committed the ultimate, and the unforgivable sin: I got a divorce. A real one. I crossed the invisible line and paid the price. → Read More
It's Not The Blood; It's the Betrayal: Holy Week Reflections
Holy week is about the forgiveness of betrayal. We don’t need the cross; we do need the betrayal and the response to the betrayal. Few of us face public execution; all of us will be wounded over and over again by the multiple betrayals we all endure. → Read More
NOW is the Moment, UMC: Will You Stop the Evangelical Takeover?
Yes, there is something profoundly wrong at the heart of The United Methodist Church. And it is called the Evangelical Takeover. → Read More
Why Do Christians Love the Idea of Hell? Part One
Many have formerly held tight to the idea that God, without compassion, purposes that most of humanity, the creme-de-la-creme of creation, will suffer their afterlives in hell, a conscious, unending torment. Eventually, they realize that this idea makes no sense. → Read More