Posted on 05/18/2005 12:46:18 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
Spong's answer: Yeah. I think I am. Because what terrorism finally winds up saying to us is that you can’t live in a world that bends some people so totally out of shape that they want to destroy themselves and anybody who gets in their way. 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.
You go back and read the Crusades history. The seeds of terrorism are being sowed as we butcher them and murder them in the name of the God of the West, and denigrated them and spat on them. You think that stuff doesn’t come back to haunt you? It may be a thousand years, but it’s still there. You don’t diminish human life the way we have diminished human life with our power and not expect it at some point to rise up. They’re not going to rise up with an army to come defeat our army. They’re going to get at us the way they can get at us.
Spong goes on to say he's optimistic because we won't always treat the terrorists the way civil rights activists were treated in the Southern United States...someday we'll meet their needs, blah blah blah.
While we do need a free Middle East--free to vote, free to govern themselves, etc., Spong ignores the basic need to defeat the terrorists. Here's another quote from Spong:
...then the people who were yesterday’s terrorists become tomorrow’s elected officials...
Unbelievable.
Spong's spawn. What a waste of electrons and bandwidth.
Heretic.
Yes i agree, We in america tend to forget the crusades and offer that they were 800 to 1000 years ago but the Muslims live there...the castle ruins are still there storys probably passed down from there fathers ect. Its living history to them but we in the west tend to forget about it and dismiss it as history. Although this gives them no right to do the foolishness there doing now.
We need to pray to the Lord for this man's soul.
ping for a in-depth read later..
blithering old idiot.
INTREP
The Irish still keep the Churches Cromwell burned down as a reminder but I don't see any Paddy's taking an Air Lingus into Buckingham Palace.
Bump for later indigestion.
I don't know where it is exactly or the exact wording, but the Bible quote I try to keep in mind, especially when posting on FR, is "every rash word uttered will be accounted for."
There are no "worst verses" of the Bible. This so-called bishop picks and chooses on his whim which ones to follow. But, since he calls himself a liberal, that explains it.
yet another apostate trying to create God in his own image.
My grandparents have fallen under Spong's spell. They had one of his books and we had a little argument over it. They seem to be trending leftward and away from the church as they age (my grandfather is a WWII vet), which seems counter to the way it usually goes.
>> A troll-like bishop <<
Yup, Christianity has trolls, too... like Bishop Spong. Someone Zot him, please.
How's the Recovery going? ;)
As soon as the name, "Bishop Sponge" is read or uttered as though he matters, the Hounds of Hell drool.
My old Lutheran pastor had an interesting view of this. In the Old Testament, the high priest would sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the people for atonement.
In a sense, the blood of Jesus IS on the Jews, and all mankind. He was the Atoning Sacrifice, and His blood made us clean.
When you look at it that way, this is the best verse in the Bible.
As I understand it, Spong is a leading intellectual light of the Episcopalians. If this is true, it goes a long way in explaining the fracture and declining membership of that denomination.
Um, 'fraid not, dude.
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