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Summary: fun with fundies
Review: In response to the reviews: LOL
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Summary: The most important book on Christianity
Review: I really honestly believe that many of the people who have criticized Spong's book have not actually read it. I also belive that many of the critics refuse to accept the fact that Spong is a very well-read and learned man, with a greater biblical knowledge than the average fundamentalist.this is an important book. It helps to show that Christianity has cultivated myths, misconceptions, and other falsehoods, throughout the most innocent of means: misinterpretation. Spong has really helped me to see the power of God, because his book has shown that God's nature is around us, not enslaving us. I must admit that i had some problems with his book, because I was raised as a Christian, but I meditated on these things, and I came to the conclusion that Spong has no intention of bad-mouthing or denying the existance of God at all. After all, if he doesn't believe in God, then one: why would he write book after book about the subject, and 2. why would he still continue to be a bishop? Spong is a very intelligent and important man. I recommend ANY of his works. and for pete's sake, actually READ the book before you post on here! I really dont think some of you did. And if you are gonna read this book with a closed mind, don't bother. Just save your money and send it to Falwell
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Summary: This book is a slap in the face to true believers
Review: Just to think that this man is an episcopal bishop makes me shudder. To think that he is lookede upon to lead people in their faith is disgusting. I could start at the title, which obviously is the main point of the book. Christianity doesn't need to change - PEOPLE need to change. Just because the majority of today's people cannot accept that God has principles they must follow does not mean that it's the religion that should change. Unfortunately Spong has gotten caught up in new age ideas and has forgotten that Christianity fits every culture and every society because it contains basic ideas that are common to all people. The biggest outrage is for him to claim the resurrection never happened. That is the sole basis for the faith and St. Paul writes that if the resurrection is not true then we have no reason to believe and are truly a lost people. Obviously this man has forgotten what he was taught in apologetics or else he never really learned it to begin with.
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Summary: Wonderful, Intelligent Perspective on Christian Spirituality
Review: I thought I was alone, but this book has given me hope. I thought religion had abandoned me, but this book has shown me that I can be both spiritual and thoughtful. I don't need a Mommy or a Daddy for a God. I don't need to have the mysteries of life explained to me in simple, monosyllabic words. This book helps me accept the fact that I want to approach spirituality as though I'm a reasoning, intelligent person. That's a far cry from what fundamentalists want and like the author, that attitude made me an exile from religion. I want to make this clear. I don't agree with everything the author says. However, I feel the ultimate goal of what the author is doing is not to suggest his thoughts are the right answer. Rather, what he's done is make religion a topic we can talk about and think about. One fact of Christianity has always amused me. We were supposedly thrown out of the Garden of Eden because of our desire for knowledge. God, Adam, and Eve jointly made the bargain and traded paradise for the ability to think and reason. Yet fundamentalists want us to pretend that didn't happen and suggest that God would cause a book to be written (the Bible) that we had to interpret literally. That's nonsense. This is a great book if you're open minded enough to think that religion isn't a stick designed to force you into submission. This is a great book if you're mature enough spiritually to want to examine the true meaning of religion. This is a great book if you're looking for spirituality, but the church you attend is giving you answers that your own heart and spirit are telling you are wrong. If you'd like to approach spirituality and Christianity from a rational, mature, and thoughtful perspective, give this book a try.
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Review: People love or hate this book. People will read it REGARDLESS and I think it deserves attention. I hope the self-righteous and vane get a chance to reframe their spirituality with God.
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Summary: This man knows nothing about God or Jesus. Read 1.corth15
Review: Its because of men like this that Gods people get lead into captivity. He questions if Jesus was raised from the dead? Actually he says he wasn't! If that be true then we are all still in our sins, and we are all on our way to hell! Including him. The Gospel is that Jesus died he was buried and he ROSE again from the dead. When he did this he forgave us, healed us, set us free, sanctified us, made us rightious. ( if we believe ) Believe means to hold fast, trust in, and rely on Forever! Not to question, doubt, debate, or write a stupid book about it. Its to bad that a man who calls himself a man of God is so full of deciet and insists on questioning the very thing he is supose to represent! He claims that Jesus is not the only way to God... Mr Spong, Read the scripture that was written 2000 years ago. Either belive it as its written or go on and serve your father the devil. Read the bible its much better then this trash. I wanted to give this a minus 10 star rating but this review program wouldn't let me, oh well... you can email me if you like JBATX1@aol.com
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Summary: Reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated...
Review: I could say a great deal about the book, but I'll content myself with answering the title. And I'll do it by quoting a man the Rt. Rev. +Spong has apparently never read, G.K. Chesterton: "Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave."
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Summary: No surprises here
Review: I am a Christian. I was baptized and confirmed in the Episcopal Church, and I cringe everytime I think about Spong being an Episcopal bishop. How can anyone be a Christian if he doesn't believe in the divinity of Christ? This is a great book for people who think Jesus was just a nice guy who lived in Israel about 2000 years ago. It's not a book for people who have accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
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Summary: If this is Christianity, it must die anyway.
Review: If you've read any of Bishop Spong's other books, read this one too: it's the payoff. Here he presents his muddled views on what Christianity must do if it is to survive. The upshot: it must turn itself into what any other period in Christian history would have called "unbelief," but still _call_ itself "Christianity." A solely human Christ? A nonpersonal God who doesn't save anybody and is really nothing more than the "ground of being"? The central thrust of Christianity as gay rights, abortion on demand, and the rest of the Democratic Party platform? Ha. I'm not a Christian, but even I can see that what Bishop Spong presents here isn't Christianity; it's merely an exercise in taking the theologico-philosophico-political muddle he already believes and trying oh-so-hard to present it in quasi-Christian language. Bishop Spong would be better off dropping the theological figleaf from his left-liberal beliefs and just presenting them in honest, secular language. He and his baby-killing comrades might have an easier time recognizing each other if he dropped his pose of religiosity.
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Summary: A good example of bad reasoning
Review: Spong sets up a version of Christianity appropriate for a four year old, bulldozes over it, and then believes he's actually accomplished something. Anyone naive enough to think that hundreds of millions of Christians all over the world have never heard of Newton or Darwin, or really believe in a God who exists "Up in the sky" or any of the other silly ideas he tries to pass off as part of traditional Christianity will certainly enjoy having their prejudices reinforced in this book. What is extremely interesting and revealing is the fact that he attacks the "intolerance" of traditional Christians so much, yet clearly believes that anyone who doesn't think like him must be stupid. Spong is simply another flash in the pan. Far from dying, 100 years from now no one will remember Spong, and Christianity will be chugging along as well as ever. And just for the record I am NOT a fundamentlaist.
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