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POPSBishop John Shelby Spong says: “this book rightly points out…” Everybody knows that Bishop Spong is the most prestigious authority in progressive Christianity; his opinion gives you a firm basis to understand that in this book “I am not attacking the Roman Catholic Church or any other denomination… What I want to do is give information to my readers. This book is not in the spirit of proselytizing, nor am I looking for adherents. This book is mostly informative with fifty years of historical perspective.”
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POPSUnbelievers are right People with doubts about their religious beliefs are right; some are baseless. The “God” of main line traditions does not exist.
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POPSLess Fear, More Faith My hope is that a religious consciousness will begin to rise, one based on enhancing humanity.... Bishop John Shelby Spong
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POPSJust How Blessed Am I Anyhow? Happy Thanksgiving to all. :) I don't get many things right the first time in fact, I am told that a lot now I know all the wrong turns — the stumbles and falls brought me here and where was I before the day that I first saw your lovely face now I see it everyday and I know that I am, I am I am the luckiest what if I'd been born fifty years before you in a house on the street where you lived maybe I'd be outside as you passed on your bike, would I know? and in a wide sea of eyes I see one pair that I recognize and I know that I am, I am I am the luckiest I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you next door there's an old man who lived into his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep and his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away I'm sorry I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong that I know that I am, I am I am the luckiest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYU6lbGSbxc
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POPSSpong: Spitzer's Compulsive Behavior and Ours so deep in western civilization which has been fed so constantly by the Christian faith? Of course! Eliot Spitzer is simply the latest example of a rampant sexism that treats women as objects who are less than human. People will quickly forget Governor Spitzer and his high priced prostitute will not even be a footnote in history. I do wish we could some day realize that humanity is fully expressed in both males and females.
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POPSChurch Must Change or Die The traditional church always fights every new intellectual insight, making it difficult for educated people not to stray. Recall the fate of Galileo in the 17th Century. Observe how the church still fights Darwin with such silly things as intelligent design. Look at the present debate in the church over homosexuality in which people use a definition of homosexuality that is no longer saluted anywhere in scientific or medical circles upon which to justify their prejudice. When knowledge collides with traditional faith change is inevitable. I welcome it and if the church cannot engage this intellectually driven change, then it probably should die.
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