re: #180 The Nightmare of the five Orders of Beggars

No, I’m saying Christianity as a whole implicitly says that all other religions are wrong. And sure you can find rare outliers like Spong (whose concepts are unique, extreme and non representative of anything but his own opinion; frankly, he’s barely a Christian). That tells us nothing about what Christianity as a whole (with all its internal divisions) says.

Right, so Christianity monolithically says [X] except that whenever someone says [Y], you’re going to say they don’t count or they’re “barely a Christian” (even if they’re a Bishop!) so that you can maintain that Christianity “as a whole” says a single thing about other religions.

The thing is, there’s no “Christianity as a whole” that shares any unified beliefs, and Bishop Spong’s beliefs aren’t as crazy and marginalized as you may think. (They’re pretty common beliefs in the religious circles I move in.)