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I experience God as the power of love.

~John Shelby Spong

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The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught.

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The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person.

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I can only give away the love that I have received.

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The Christ path is the path I've walked all my life, so it's normal and natural. And I have no reason to abandon it because it leads to where I want to go.

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I am a child of the 21st century.

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Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.

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My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be a member of anyway.

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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 at the stake; we've run them out of town for something over which they have no control. And that's immoral.

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I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: June 16th, 1931

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