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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 another planet; in addition, John's gospel is and has been interpreted as a document that fuels anti-Semitism in the church.

~John Shelby Spong

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You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

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If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system.

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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 think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

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God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny.

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In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.

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I cannot possibly conceive of my planet Earth as the centre of a three-tiered universe. I know rather that the sun, around which my planet Earth revolves, is a middle sized star in a galaxy called the Milky Way that has over a hundred billion other suns or stars within it.

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The church is not going to survive if they are going to tell people that they have to twist their minds into 1st century pretzels.

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Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: June 16th, 1931

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