"All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake."
-John Shelby Spong
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"I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.“
-John Shelby Spong
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"You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of 'getting along.'"
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"It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different."
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