John Shelby Spong Quotes About Property

Quotes about: Property

• The Bible was written between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago, and it's filled with the knowledge that people had in that period of time, some of which you and I rejected long ago. The Bible says that women are property, that homosexuals ought to be put to death, that anybody who worships a false God ought to be executed, that a child that talks back to his parents ought to be stoned at the gates of the city. Those ideas are absurd.

  John Shelby Spong

  Children, Cities, Ideas

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

• The demolishment of the power of organized Christianity in the Western world to finally realize the emancipation of women and give them the vote in 1920. Women couldn't even own property in their own names until the last quarter of the 19th century in America.

  John Shelby Spong

  Names, America, Giving

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

• "You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is your neighbor's." Your neighbor is clearly a male, and the woman, the ox and the ass are property of the male. That's not morality I will salute today.

  John Shelby Spong

  Wife, Males, Today

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

• I have no problem with anybody who wants to bear public witness to their religion, but I don't think they can do it on public property. They have to do it on private property. There's nothing unconstitutional about that.

  John Shelby Spong

  Thinking, Want, Bears

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

• If I want to put a Christmas tree in my yard, or three crosses for the crucifixion story, that's fine. But if I try to use public property or a public school as a way to impress my religion on other people, I think that violates the constitution.

  John Shelby Spong

  School, Thinking, People

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

• [Jew] didn't believe anything good could come out of a Jewish study. So, what has happened is anti-Semitism has cost the Jews their lives and their property. It's also cost the Christians the ability to read the old gospels, which are deeply, deeply Jewish, and to bring that out is a pretty exciting thing. I'm having a wonderful time with that. I'm just not near ready to do much with it.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Believe, Cost

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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