John Shelby Spong Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• The Bible Belt, the religious South, is the section of the country that practiced slavery until the war made them give it up. They practiced segregation. They practiced lynchings. I don't see any great value in that.

  John Shelby Spong

  Country, Religious, War

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

• You need to identify the values that come out of that kind of belief system, because I don't see them. All the polls I look at say, for example, that adultery is committed as much in the Bible Belt as in any other part of the country. The same goes for abortion, child abuse, spouse abuse or murder.

  John Shelby Spong

  Country, Children, Abortion

  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

• I know that Arnold Toynby, the great historian, said he had always hoped the religions of the world would evolve until they began to bring the very best of each tradition into one tradition. He hoped that Christianity would be the one religion that finally incorporated the values of Hinduism and Buddhism, and enriched itself with them.

  John Shelby Spong

  Buddhism, Would Be, World

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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