Posted on 03/15/2006 11:50:30 AM PST by sionnsar
Matthew Fox and John Shelby Spong are both far Left Episcopal clergymen (though I thought Fox was Catholic). Spong worships modern science and rationalism (Copernicus, et al) and regards Third World chr*stians as savages barely out of animism. Fox despises modern science and rationalism as much as he despises Biblical Fundamentalism (which apparently rejects modern science and rationalism for the "wrong reasons").
Do you suppose Fox and Spong have ever met? (I'm still waiting for Darwin and the "indigenous pipples" to discover each other!)
Once again a childish worship of "the other" (no different from a childish antipathy to it) shows itself. Fox looks at "people of color" (perhaps in a COGIC church somewhere in a swamp in the Mississippi Delta) and sees profound feminist/socialist/pagan/homophilic earth people, even though they are handling snakes, speaking in tongues, and interpreting Genesis literally. I don't blame Black Fundamentalists for taking advantage of such a looney, but it does bother me that they never seem to have anything to say about such pagan thought put forward in their name.
Burn those books. What if some fairly ignorant person gets them and is persuaded by them? Better to bury tripe like that than to give it away. The man is SO prideful and full of himself. But not of the Lord. That's why he was embraced by the Episcopal Church -- one of their own.
Burn those books. What if some fairly ignorant person gets them and is persuaded by them? Better to bury tripe like that than to give it away. The man is SO prideful and full of himself. But not of the Lord. That's why he was embraced by the Episcopal Church -- one of their own.
Good advice. I need the room on the shelf anyway.
He was Catholic (in name, at least). Stress the past tense. ;'} He quit and became an episcopagan, shortly before he was due to be excommunicated ...
"You can't fire me!!! I quit!!!!"
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