"It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different."
― John Shelby Spong
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Religion
More From John Shelby Spong
- "If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday’s terrorists become tomorrow’s elected officials and they’re part of the system."
- "The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world."
- "I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God."
More In Religion
- "No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece."― Walter Pater
- "Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done."― Edward Bond
- "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."― Henry David Thoreau