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John Shelby Spong has 91 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.
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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…
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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…
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Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.
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How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide…
— Herman Melville
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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…
— John Shelby Spong
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Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows…
— Sheri L. Dew
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It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu,…
— Criss Jami
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The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old…
— Gore Vidal
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Dear God, I prayed, all unafraid (as we're inclined to do), I do not need a handsome man but let him be…
— Ruth Graham
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Jesus was a perfect example of following authority. He was subject to His earthly parents; he subjected himself to the laws of…
— Monica Johnson
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