John Shelby Spong Quotes - Page 8

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• We live in a very pluralistic society today. There are Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, atheists, Roman Catholics, Evangelical Christians, and Christians like me. There are a wide variety of religious expressions in this country. I think they all must be treated with respect and none of them must be given priority in the public arena.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Country, Religious

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• We didn't educate women, because the leaders then didn't think they were educable. That changed when a shortage of teachers developed, because men didn't get paid enough to teach school. Then men, who held the positions of power, sent women to teachers' colleges.

  John Shelby Spong

  Teacher, School, College

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of heaven to play golf.

  John Shelby Spong

  Golf, Thinking, Play

  "Bishop John Shelby Spong Ahead Of His Time With Church Reforms" by David Gibson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2013.

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• Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.

  John Shelby Spong

  Real, People, Enemy

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• I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.

  John Shelby Spong

  Book, Sky, Records

  "Bishop Shelby Spong". "Sunday Nights" with John Cleary, www.abc.net.au. June 17, 2001.

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• The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows us to view and act on death as a dignified moral and godly choice for those suffering with terminal illnesses.

  John Shelby Spong

  Godly, Views, Decision

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• 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

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• The Jesus experience expanded people into a position where they didn't have to have defensive tribal lives, "God loves my people, my tribe, anddoesn't like yours." The Bible is full of such references.

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, People, Tribes

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I don't make that decision [what next book will be] until I've read enough to know that I've got something different to say and I know how to say it.

  John Shelby Spong

  Book, Decision, Next

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• If you want to be a Roman Catholic scholar and write, you've got to write in such a way that nobody understands what you're saying, and then you're thought to be profound.

  John Shelby Spong

  Writing, Profound, Catholic

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• I think I could make the case for any kind of organized religion, but I'm not an expert in those, so let me narrow my focus to talk about Christianity.

  John Shelby Spong

  Thinking, Focus, Experts

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• The first command given by God when Adam and Eve were pitched out of the Garden of Eden in the Book of Genesis is, "Be fruitful and multiply, and subdue the Earth." We've been trying to do that for a long time, and now the Earth is fighting back. I'm not sure that we're going to survive as a species.

  John Shelby Spong

  Book, Fighting, Garden

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• We began to temper Western democracy with what I'd call a social contract. We put in Social Security, graduated income tax, workers' compensation. We developed strong unions to negotiate with business owners so workers got an equitable share of the profits.

  John Shelby Spong

  Strong, Democracy, Unions

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• As for the status of Western Christianity, we are in a place where our task is to redefine the primary symbols of our faith or tradition in a more human direction. That's the thing I spend my time doing.

  John Shelby Spong

  Tasks, Tradition, Christianity

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• We're either going to be driven to a whole new sense of radical interdependence where we are, in the Bible's words, our neighbor's keeper, or destroy ourselves.

  John Shelby Spong

  Neighbor, Driven, Radical

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• 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

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• What happened in the Western world was that Plato ceased to be the way people thought. Aristotle was rediscovered, and the modern, educated world moved toward Aristotelian thinking.

  John Shelby Spong

  Plato, Thinking, People

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• The thing that intrigues me about Matthew is that I don't believe anybody would read it if they aren't Jewish and understand it. And so to say that publicly as a Christian is kind of interesting.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Believe, Interesting

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• In fact, in 1724 the Western world learned that women were co-creators of life that's when it was discovered that women had an egg cell.

  John Shelby Spong

  Cells, Eggs, World

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I see Christianity in very humanistic terms.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christianity, Term, Humanistic

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• 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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• I am a child of the 21st century.

  John Shelby Spong

  Children, Century, 21st Century

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• Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.

  John Shelby Spong

  Gay, Issues, People

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• The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.

  John Shelby Spong

  People, Church, Trying

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• You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of 'getting along.'

  John Shelby Spong

  Mean, Police, Different

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