"When the dust settles and the pages of……" — John Shelby Spong
"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. The reward will go to those who dared to step outside the safety of their privacy in order to expose and rout the prevailing prejudices."
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John Shelby Spong
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90 Quotes by John Shelby Spong
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Live life to it's fullest, love wastefully, and be all we can be.
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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…
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The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on…
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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…
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If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then…
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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…
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The great danger... in believing yourself especially chosen is that it becomes easy to view those who are not your…
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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…
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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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I do not think of God theistically, that is, as a being, supernatural in power, who dwells beyond the limits…
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