Bishop Spong steps up fight against evangelism [sic - evangelicals]

North Jersey ^ | 7/26/2005 | John Chadwick

[Tax-chick]

I didn't know he was from around here. How creepy.

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Speak the truth in love. Eph 4:15

[sionnsar]

Yup.

[Tax-chick]

Well, Thomas Sowell is from Charlotte, too!

[DeFault User]

He prayed fervently, he said, for one of his stepdaughters who was serving in the armed forces in Iraq.

Spong said he seeks to call Christians to a new understanding of God - a God who is the all-powerful source of life but doesn't intervene to win wars, punish evildoers or bestow riches on the blessed.

What is he praying for if there is no chance of intervention? Seems that Spong or his religion is a bit schizophrenic.

[afnamvet]

Spong said he seeks to call Christians to a new understanding of God - a God who is the all-powerful source of life but doesn't intervene to win wars, punish evildoers or bestow riches on the blessed.

Spong needs to read and understand the bible.

[Pyro7480]

The public face of Christianity is being shaped by Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict is an evangelical!?

[AnAmericanMother]

Memo to Spong: "I really resent having the Christian faith being taken over by people who identify" as non-Christians.

[kjvail]

Why do nuts like this even bother with the Christian label? It's unfathomable to me.

[conservonator]

Why do nuts like this even bother with the Christian label? It's unfathomable to me.

A tent's shape is largely defined by the structures within: Move a pole, get a new shape. Spong and his ilk are far more effective servants of the evil one than Anton LeVey ever was.

[topcat54]

"I really resent having the Christian faith being taken over by people who identify with endorsing sodomy and killing innocent, preborn children."

[stan_sipple]

if you are a progressive unfundamentalist christian it is ok to call Opposing African bishops superstitious spear chuckers if they disagree with you

[JCEccles]

"There is an enormous hunger for something besides fundamentalism," he said. "My job, as I |see it, is to help people find this God."

He had 24 years to do it, running his own little Episcopal diner in a heavily populated corner of New Jersey to feed the spiritually famished.

What did Episcopal Church rolls decline by during that period? Twenty to twenty-five percent?

Evangelical and conservative church membership skyrocketed during that same period.

If it is true that "there is an enormous hunger for something besides fundamentalism," the spiritually famished sure have a wacky way of showing it. And in any event they're not lining up at Spong's soup kitchen for the slop he's been slinging.

[Tax-chick]

I suspect he's insane.

[Graves]

Maybe Spong and Fonda could join each other on Fonda's road trip and do some sort of a duet or a singalong

"Ah been 'buked and Ah been scorned..."

[Cecily]

I have always thought that too.

[Campion]

I suspect he's insane.

Did you notice this?

His father was an alcoholic who died when he was 12.

There's a book by Paul Vitz called something like "The Faith of the Fatherless". It talks about how noted atheists throughout history have something in common: lousy, or non-existent, relationships with their fathers.

Spong follows the pattern.

[Sans-Culotte]

Spong is a fifth columnist. Fifth columnists have to get inside whatever it is they are trying to destroy in order to succeed.

[Tax-chick]

I did see that item, but didn't make the connection. Very interesting!