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Spong, who is the retired Episcopal Bishop of Newark, has long been a biting polemicist on behalf of liberal religion, writing books suggesting that the Virgin Mary was a prostitute and St. Paul a "self-hating gay man," while denying that Christ was divine and rejecting a personal God. "It's time to name evil as evil when sounded in pious accents of biblical religion," Spong declared blazingly. "In the 21st century ... my nation seems to be walking religiously back into religious attitudes that I spent a lifetime trying to escape."
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But the Bible has been a "major force in dark chapters of American history," Spong ominously warned.
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There are so many "traditional Anglicans" who appear, to me, to just be staring at their belly buttons while their episcopate spouts garbage like this or raids churches like so many jackbooted thugs. Why is this garbage tolerated?
Don't get me wrong, this has nothing to do with Anglican belief, I just don't understand why those who actually believe and practice those beliefs sit there and tolerate the rot from the head down.
He only reads the parts of the Bible that fit his "religion"! The Bible also said to take the log out of your own eye before you try and pluck the speck out of someone elses! The big question is "is Jesus Christ Lord and Savior of your heart?" That's the only question that will matter for any of us and will be the final Jeopardy Question as we stand before God...