John Shelby Spong Quotes About Survival

Quotes about: Survival

• Human beings are hardwired by however many millions or billions of years to orient toward their own survival. That's why we're tribal people. That's why we're prejudiced people.
  That's why we treat women as second-class citizens, that's why we are homophobic, and that's why we make religion a weapon to prove we're superior to other people.

  John Shelby Spong

  Years, Class, People

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

• We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and millions and millions of years.

  John Shelby Spong

  Struggle, Years, Humanity

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

• The trouble is, the same thing that enabled us to survive evolution is also going to kill us, because in the final analysis, if survival is the primary motivation of every human being, then we will finally be in a situation where might will make right and only one person will survive.

  John Shelby Spong

  Motivation, Survival, Finals

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

• There are some great values in Christianity, but I think the values are located more deeply in our humanity than they are in our religion. There are certainly some survival values.

  John Shelby Spong

  Thinking, Humanity, Survival

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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