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John Shelby Spong Quotes

American - Clergyman | June 16, 1931 -

I can only give away the love that I have received.

John Shelby Spong

Love I Can Away Give Only Received

The Christ path is the path I've walked all my life, so it's normal and natural. And I have no reason to abandon it because it leads to where I want to go.

John Shelby Spong

Life Path My Life Go Want Reason

I am a child of the 21st century.

John Shelby Spong

I Am Child 21st Century Century Am

We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people. We've murdered them; we've burned them at the stake; we've run them out of town for something over which they have no control. And that's immoral.

John Shelby Spong

People Control Church Gay Run Over

I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.

John Shelby Spong

Family People Want Traditional Other

The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church.

John Shelby Spong

Church Christian Need Forever Used

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

John Shelby Spong

Nature Religion Against Different

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

John Shelby Spong

People Church Gay Inequality Lesbian

In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.

John Shelby Spong

Controversial Even Scholars Issues

Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.

John Shelby Spong

History Think Decade Him Source Any

Almost any poll of regular churchgoers will reveal that their favorite book in the New Testament is the Gospel of John. It is the book that is most often used at Christian funerals.

John Shelby Spong

Book Christian New Will Reveal Used

There is no way that the Fourth Gospel was written by John Zebedee or by any of the disciples of Jesus. The author of this book is not a single individual, but is at least three different writers/editors, who did their layered work over a period of 25 to 30 years.

John Shelby Spong

Work Book Three Way Over Single

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