Re: [asa] spong wrong

I've read his "Why Christianity Must Change or Die". If any liberal
Christians want to feel more centrist, they should read that. Basically --
empty Christianity of everything that offends modern sensibilities (like the
concept of blood sacrifice) and remake it according to the "wisdom" of this
present age. The book seemed to me to demonstrate that his Christianity
already was post-mortem, and whatever he has now he should just be give another
name. --Go for the clean start.

--Merv

Quoting George Murphy <GMURPHY10@neo.rr.com>:

> Many on this list will have heard of former Episcopal bishop John Spong but
> perhaps have never read anything of his. (I say "former" because although he
> is still in traditional Anglican understanding a bishop, he has not only
> retired but has said - if I understand him correctly - that he will no longer
> function as a bishop.) I get his email newsletter, which occasionally has
> something to worthwhile to offer & more often doesn't, but in any case is a
> window on ultra-liberal religious thought. Spong thinks he knows something
> about science & I'm told at one time hoped to head the Episcopal
> science-theology effort. The following is from his most recent newsletter.
>
> "Since human beings are creatures of both time and space, and since we know
> from the work of Albert Einstein that time and space are relative categories
> that expand and contract in relation to each other, then we must conclude
> that any statement made by anyone, who is bound by time and space, will never
> be absolute. There are no propositional statements, secular or religious,
> that are exempt from this principle."
>
> To which one need only reply, "The speed of light in vacuum is the same in
> all inertial frames."
>
> What Spong has done is to fall for the oldest relativity fallacy there is,
> "Everything is relative."
>
> Shalom
> George
> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

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Received on Fri Jun 6 18:55:30 2008