What is up with Sex Positive Christians?

The latest harbinger of our dire future and of cultural Christianity itself for want of a better word; now goes by the name of sex positive Christianity. If you are as confused as I was, this is just to let you know; it is another of those weasel terms for immorality. Seriously, who dreams up this stuff?

I stumbled across this oddity by accident prior to this I never knew there was such a thing so I am behind the curve. Or maybe not?

Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah, is refusing to cancel an elective class that will see students watching hardcore porn together; all in the name of art.

Yes there has been widespread outrage but the college is standing firm.

Sex positivity is a thing and some even preach it. In Church.

It is the belief that all forms of sexual expression between consenting adults are permissible; and thus should be destigmatized.

Social media has allowed these type views to become wide spread.

One writer cites wayward theologians and ministers, many of whom are gay, to support her claim that limiting sex to a married heterosexual couple; is not so much biblical as it is Puritan.

Then there are the real life stories to go with it.

One forty year old woman, Jo Neufeld, used to feel that she was sex positive despite being Christian. It sounds like a disease when she puts it that way.

Then 10 years ago, she started following Twitter accounts like those of Kevin Garcia; a gay pastor based in Atlanta.

She said the accounts introduced her to “ideas around God wanting pleasure for us” and helped her to reconcile her Christianity with her sex positivity:

“I’ve found examples of people living out holy sexuality. And for me, that has been about slowly embracing what I was created for. That is Sexual flourishing.”

There plenty of stories in similar vein.

People have also been influenced by books such as; The Purity Myth and Sex is Good, a YouTube series.

Then one particular article gives the game away saying that Christianity in the US stems from a Puritan tradition that sees desires of the flesh as contrary to those of the Spirit.

So their take is Gnostic not Christian as the heresy of the ages makes its last stand.

This type of thinking became more common when women entered seminaries in larger numbers in the eighties and started to critique the long-held Christian ethic.

Because of you know; patriarchy.

While they endlessly obsess maybe they missed the new patriarchy. Only this time they are decked out in high heels and lipstick.

It also parallels with LGBTQ folk feeling out of the loop with the traditional Christian ethic on sex and marriage. Those who reject this norm are desperate to find some other accommodation or way out of it. With the result activists and their allies brainstorm day and night.

Christian Minister Lyvonne Briggs views Jesus as a radical figure, a honcho hippy type that had little to say about sex.

Describe for us if you will ‘what that little to say’ was minister?

She says what is taught in Christian theology is a gross misinterpretation of the Bible.

She says; “We have to be honest about who wrote the Bible, who’s been translating the Bible, and who it serves us to believe Jesus condemned.”

Then; “U.S. Christians … have been teaching ideas about sex from sexually conflicted, misogynistic church fathers instead of Jesus,” she said. “If Jesus were their guide, Christians would discount the pleasure police in the church as party poopers.”

What? Party poopers? So a conservative Jewish Rabbi of over two thousand years ago who endorsed an orthodox sexual ethic in line with scriptures; was really this permissive dude?

I mean who knew? The lady sounds stuffed in the head. Or maybe she is just lesbian.

Then she goes onto blame writers after Jesus’s time like Saint Augustine and Saint Jerome for sex negative Christian ideas.

Like original sin.

Not surprising when you look at it from her perspective. She advocates for an interpretation of the Bible that celebrates sexual pleasure; like all that forbidden lust stuff.

Then there is mention of The Song of Solomon, of medieval mystics; and of spiritual ecstasy being the same as sexual ecstasy.

For preacher Roya King, the most important thing is spreading the word that Jesus provides salvation for the entire world; not just for certain people who live a certain way.

So the new maxim seems to be Do As Thou Wilt. Which happens to tie in with another doctrine…… that of devils?