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.
I think Spong is the guy who is working with the UN to come up with a world religion. It doesn't involve Jesus and I'm not entirely sure it involves God.
If I remember, he announced sometime in the last couple of years that he wanted all Christian churches to remove thier crosses because the Cross is "divisive".
I suspect that there is a special ring of Hell ready and waiting for this schmuck. Not going to be pleasant.
Way cool, do you have a bow and arrow?
Where do puppies come from? I just got 24 in the mail
I'm not making jokes, it's true
because Diana is the godess of huntresses. You should get one
O'Reilly thinks because his mother and father were Catholics, he was born a Christian.
LOL. I thought this type of liberal hysteria went out with tie-dye and the Smothers Brothers.
The entire population of the planet could fit standing up within the city limits of Jacksonville, Florida.
The earth is so bountiful and expansive, it should be at peace and in bloom right this minute. But there are people and powers who don't want it that way. That's the enemy; not children. Children are life's most exquisite pleasure. If you're fortunate, one day you'll experience this greatest gift, and realize how naive and foolish your statements were.
When I look at the evidence, I see God gave me puppies, so I dont think it's too far fetched to think He gives children
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