John Shelby Spong Quotes About Killing

Quotes about: Killing

• I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.

  John Shelby Spong

  Girl, God, Son

• If you're going to live in a community, you have to refrain from killing one another and stealing from one another. You must have honor and honesty in your dealings with one another. But I think the deeper thing that we need to do is to become so fully human that we don't grasp at life; we give life away. We give love away. We give being away. That is the ultimate work of religion.

  John Shelby Spong

  Honesty, Thinking, Giving

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

• In my book, The Sins of Scripture, I traced the development of tribal religion, which included ideas like God's killing the Egyptians because they hated the chosen people. Then a God of love finally appears in the Book of Hosea, about the 8th century. A God of justice appears in the Book of Amos in the late 8th century or early 7th century.

  John Shelby Spong

  Book, Ideas, People

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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