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The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church.

~John Shelby Spong

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It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

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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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Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.

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Almost any poll of regular churchgoers will reveal that their favorite book in the New Testament is the Gospel of John. It is the book that is most often used at Christian funerals.

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There is no way that the Fourth Gospel was written by John Zebedee or by any of the disciples of Jesus. The author of this book is not a single individual, but is at least three different writers/editors, who did their layered work over a period of 25 to 30 years.

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Many of the characters who appear in the pages of the Fourth Gospel are literary creations of its author and were never intended to be understood as real people, who actually lived in history.

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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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I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church's youth group and in my university student group. I was married before the church's altar; trained at the church's seminaries, ordained deacon and priest at age 24.

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I do not live in a world where people can walk on water, or still a storm, or take five loaves of bread and feed 5000 men plus women and children. If that is a requirement of my commitment to Jesus, I find it difficult to stretch my mind outside the capacities of my world view.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: June 16th, 1931

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