[Semi Civil Servant]

John Shelby Spong recently retired as bishop of New Jersey. For his whole ecclesiastical career, he wrote and preached against every tenet of the Christian faith. Bishop Spong, author of Why Christianity Must Change or Die, did not believe in the virgin birth, the doctrine of the incarnation, the deity of Christ, the resurrection, or the existence of God.

Among other things, this would make Spong a thief ... taking money given to build up the church to instead destroy the chruch.

I don't understand why a Christian would place himself under the authority of an anti-Christ unconcious (or conscious) Satanist like this. The mainstream churches must have some snappy liturgies to entice members to stay on and financially support the destruction of their faith.

[rhema]

I've read about half of this new book, The Making of the New Spirituality: The Eclipse of the Western Religious Tradition. Spong, as you might expect, is mentioned fairly frequently.