 arifsali says: Can't agree more. Wonderfully stated. A good point, made well. He is lost as a goose. We will all know when we breath our last breath. There might be a 50/50 chance he is right, but eternity is a long time if he is wrong. Spong seems to have a fundamentalism he holds to, why can't others? You've read any of his books yet? He is lost as a goose.Nope; he's right on target. Claims to some divine truth have never been demonstrated, let alone by those that make such claims. Do Popes, priests, holy books, or evangelicals, demonstrate any divine guidance or knowledge in any way whatsoever? One religious group is as lost as the next. We will all know when we breath our last breath. There might be a 50/50 chance he is right, but eternity is a long time if he is wrong.The notion that we will continue to live after we're already dead is a wishful superstition that dulls the reality of death. But to insist that we go to a blissful heaven by virtue of membership in a club (whichever is y... spong has been one of my heros for a long time. and frankly, i think his brand of open-minded questioning faith is much more in line with what christianity (and judaism) was about for hundreds of years than the new-fangled Stupid No-Questions Do-What-We-Tell-You Fundamentalism which claims to be "dat ol time religion". We will all know when we breath our last breath. There might be a 50/50Also known as Pascal's wager, long proven to be a logical fallacy. If you pretend to believe for the sake of the odds, don't you think an omniscient deity would know that and judge your insincerity accordingly? "breath" = noun "breathe" = verb |
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