John Shelby Spong Quotes
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Live life to it's fullest, love wastefully, and be all we can be.
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When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have made the difference.…
Angry
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The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.
Atheism
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The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity.
Atheism
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The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and…
Atheism
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Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.
Act
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The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must abandon, therefore, its…
Abandon
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If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is doomed. For that…
All
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The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows us to view…
Act
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The great danger... in believing yourself especially chosen is that it becomes easy to view those who are not your people as God's especially unchosen.
Becomes
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All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on…
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Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.
Difference
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I do not think of God theistically, that is, as a being, supernatural in power, who dwells beyond the limits of my world. I rather…
All
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So who is God? No one can finally say. That is not within human competence. All we can ever say is how we believe we…
All
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Praying and living deeply, richly and fully have become for me almost indistinguishab le. Prayer is being present, sharing love, opening life to transcendence. It…
Addressed
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"I do not believe that Jesus, at the end of his earthly sojourn, returned to God by ascending in any literal sense into a heaven…
Any
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The way you become divine is to become wholly human
Become Divine
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Jesus becomes the captive of the hysterically religious, the chronically fearful, the insecure and even the neurotic among us, or he becomes little more than…
Age
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Human wholeness can never be found in the denigration of another
Denigration
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True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the…
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