Theoretically, evangelism may be as pure as you say. But in practice, white American Evangelical Christianity is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party and has therefore become an anti-spiritual apology for capitalistic excess, plutocracy, and rural prejudices.
I was going to say that my response to Thomism has been anything but dismissive, since my responses to it have been some of my longest articles. But I see that you ask directly for those articles, so I’m happy to oblige. They started on my blog in 2015, when I criticized Edward Feser’s Thomism. I also wrote a dialogue on Eastern vs Western Christianity. And I made another pass at Feser’s Christianity on Medium, which is my most comprehensive take on Thomistic Christianity to date (a 28-minute read, one of my longest).
Thomism is explicitly philosophical, so it’s not to be dismissed. But the appeal to philosophy in support of Christianity is in bad faith, so Thomistic Christianity is to be despised.
You don’t see an inconsistency in what you call a “personable non-person”? Yeah, I’ve written a lot on this clash between folk and philosophical theism. It falls under Leo Strauss’ point about the need for a cynical double standard and for the elites’ noble lies to the masses. The masses want God to be a person. The elites want theism to be philosophically respectable. Never the twain shall meet.
http://rantswithintheundeadgod.blogspot.com/2015/02/new-atheism-and-edward-fesers-thomistic.html
http://rantswithintheundeadgod.blogspot.com/2018/01/clash-of-worldviews-eastern-and-western.html
