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70 quotes by John Shelby Spong

John Shelby "Jack" Spong (born June 16, 1931) is a retired American bishop of the Episcopal Church. From 1979 to 2000 he was Bishop of Newark (based in Newark, New Jersey). He is a liberal Christian theologian, religion commentator and author. He calls for a fundamental rethinking of Christian belief away from theism and traditional doctrines.
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When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that women were by... →

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Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural... →

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We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people. We've murdered them; we've burned them... →

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All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious... →

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Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.

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Christianity is not about the divine becoming human so much as it is about the human becoming divine. That is a paradigm shift of the first order.

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Mother Nature is not sweet.

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Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the... →

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Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to do is develop a... →

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I think the best way to view the Gospels is to view them as a magnificent portrait being painted by Jewish artists to try to capture the essence of a... →

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I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

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I experience God as the power of love.

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I never really liked the Gospel of John because I never could find the humanity of Jesus in it. I thought it presented Jesus as a visitor from... →

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