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John Shelby Spong often turned the spotlight on what sets us apart, urging readers to question norms and celebrate uniqueness. This concise set captures his most pointed reflections, offering a quick yet meaningful glimpse into his perspective on being different.

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Benedict XVI kept saying that homosexuals are deviant. They're not deviant. They're deviant only if you say that anyone who is different…

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It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

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I don't make that decision [what next book will be] until I've read enough to know that I've got something different to…

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Anybody who's a mythology ... there's always a fear. That's why we don't like people whose skin color is different, whose eye…

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The time has come for us to think of Christianity in a different way. Instead of thinking of God entering human life…

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I could not believe that anyone who has read this book would be so foolish as to proclaim that the Bible in…

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I believe that God is very real. I believe that I live my life every day inside the reality of this God.…

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There never was a time when we were created perfect and fell into sin and needed to be rescued. We are evolving…

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You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going…

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I didn't choose to be white, I didn't choose to be male, I didn't choose to be heterosexual, I didn't choose to…

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I go into the Hebrew Scriptures frequently, looking for different ways in which minority voices have expressed the reality of God, and…

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There's one other interesting thing about Western democracy. It didn't arrive at the end point that Karl Marx thought it would that…

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There is no way that the Fourth Gospel was written by John Zebedee or by any of the disciples of Jesus. The…

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I'd like to turn the whole Jesus story around and look at it from a different vantage point, to consider that he…

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The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person.

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The Sins of Scripture is an interesting title; most people don't put sins and scripture together in the same title. It jars people.

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“When a human life is open to all that humanity can be, humanity and divinity flow together as one. It was and is a…

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I don't see Jesus as rescuing the fallen; I see Jesus as expanding the potential of life. The primary reason the old idea of…

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The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.

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My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear…

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I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.

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We live in a very pluralistic society today. There are Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, atheists, Roman Catholics, Evangelical Christians, and Christians like me. There are…

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The Bible was written between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago, and it's filled with the knowledge that people had in that period of time,…

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We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and…

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Some people think prayer stops bullets or rockets or land mines. It doesn't. That's magic, that's not God. Sometimes, you're just in the wrong…

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The Hebrew scriptures say it's okay to enslave anybody except your fellow Jews. It says you should enslave only your neighbors. I say to…

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