Posted on 04/12/2005 11:19:52 PM PDT by churchillbuff
O'Reilly has written a dustjacket blurb for Bishop Spong's new book: "The Sins of Scripture challenges Christians to look beyond the myths of their faith into the heart of the matter." I also got an email from a Spong-promoting outfit that says O'Reilly will have Spong on his show.
Here's the Publishers Weekly review on amazon:
Spong, a retired Episcopal bishop and prominent spokesperson for liberal Christianity, focuses this book on "terrible texts" which have been used to justify such "sins" as overbreeding, degradation of the environment, sexism, child abuse and anti-Semitism. These biblical texts, according to Spong, are not the incontrovertible Word of God, but flawed human responses to perceived threats. An incendiary example of this is Spong's assertion that Paul was a closeted gay man whose anti-gay statements were motivated by little more than his own self-loathing. Spong does not stop there; in the course of the book he suggests that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married; that none of the supernatural events described in the Bible took place (including the resurrection); and that theism itself is a misunderstanding of God. Interestingly, readers who do not endorse Spong's radical reinterpretation of Christianity will still find much in this book they can affirm. His explanation of the roots of Christian anti-Semitism is fascinating and much less challenging to orthodoxy than many of his other claims. Unfortunately, Spong leads with his weakest section, which features a variety of poorly constructed arguments claiming, but giving inadequate evidence for, a strong causal relationship between biblical injunctions and both overpopulation and environmental problems. Nonetheless, this absorbing book has much to offer readers of all persuasions.
BOR's behavior has made that obvious for some time now.
One time he had on two porn 'stars' and did not ask them one substantive question, which caused me to be puzzled as to why they were there. My puzzlement didn't last very long. I stopped watching him.
From the article:
An incendiary example of this is Spong's assertion that Paul was a closeted gay man whose anti-gay statements were motivated by little more than his own self-loathing.
SpongBob has a little projection going on there, not to mention that he loathes God, too.
Cordially,
Probably talking about that book of James comment.
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"in the course of the book he suggests that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married"
These Episco-Baalian queer nations bishops need to get their blasphemy straight. Queen Robinson says Jesus was gay because he would only hang with dudes. SpongBob claims Jesus was married with children ala Al Bundy. Or will the next communist bishop tell us Jesus was bi?
"An incendiary example of this is Spong's assertion that Paul was a closeted gay man whose anti-gay statements were motivated by little more than his own self-loathing"
Right I just remembered that only Liberal Democrats are allowed to use gay and race baiting pejoratives against vicitmists, cf Bill clinton "self loathing gay Republicans."
"Scholar"?? I'm afraid you're quite delusional.
The man is a blaspheming liar and perverter of the Bible -- IOW, he's a tool of Satan.
"Actually he's a well known Biblical scholar and devoutly religious from an early age, but he's getting on in years."
Actually he is a heretic and is typical of what is wrong with the Episcopal Church.
O'Reilly's pet name for him is 'Bishop Loofah.'
"Actually he's [Spong] a well known Biblical scholar and devoutly religious from an early age, but he's getting on in years."
I was forced to read this heretics biblical porno trash "why christianity must change or die." I have never read so many tendentious non sequitur arguments all packed into one book.
Even the Jesus seminar liberals should consider bishop SongBob an embarassment
overpopulation
LOL. When they trot out "too many people on the planet" to support their assertion of "the sins of Scripture," you know the book is written by a nazi.
The entire population of the planet could fit standing up in Jacksonville, Florida.
The agenda gets darker with every rancid book like this and every shrill voice that praises it. Wake up, America.
Bingo! This is exactly the problem, IMHO, with any self-made religion. The person who picks and chooses what to believe in Scripture is claimign to be wiser than Jesus (or indeed, any religious leader whom he claims), whether he realizes it or not.
This apostate has been claiming, since at least 1993 and his book Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, that Paul was a closeted homosexual who persecuted Christians as a way of proving his masculinity to other Jews.
I wonder how long it is before Sponggggg! starts claiming (like Canadian Anglican arch-heretic Tom Harpur) that Jesus never existed.
There once was a bishop named Spong
Whose views were exceedingly strong.
"The literal meaning
Is crass and demeaning,"
He said, but was literally wrong.
OReily is a very smart calculating phoney.
He is infected with harvard liberalism that never was cured.
I noticed during the whole marriage debate in 2004 he was mimicking J.Kerry.
He is a comentator of convenience, he is a "conservative" only because that is where the ratings are. (and he is not even a conservative.)_ I find it no surprise that OReily pushes for homosexualizing the dead.
How many times must a lie be repeated in order to become the accepted truth?
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Or members of this lodge or that lodge. OK, Washington was a Mason, but was/is Jesus a Mason? Is Gumby an Odd Fellow? We know Fred Flintstone is a Water Buffalo, Homer Simpson a Stonecutter and Bullwinkle a Moose. :-).
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Thanks for the ping and the truth.
Yep.
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