I wasn't around here then but I'll try to look it up.It's funny, I never heard of the guy until a few months ago and now I'm seeing references to him all over.
Like this one over at The Two Percent Company.
I was brought up in a fairly staunch Catholic family and I find a lot of the stuff Spong says in this interview is exactly the kind of questions I used to ask.
I especially like the fact that he says he is perfectly willing to consider the possibility that he is delusional. I guess I just feel a little more strongly that all 'theists' are probably delusional but I am willing to consider the possibility that I could be wrong. You sometimes hear the argument that if they are wrong nothing will happen when they die, if I am wrong I could be in trouble when I 'move on'. I have never understood the logic of this. Will I still be allowed through the pearly gates as long as I pretend to believe or do I actually have to believe? How do you believe in something that you just don't believe in?
He almost addresses this at one point in the interview. I forget his wording but he says he finds it hard to accept that any God would reject a soul simply because they didn't worship his high holiness in life. It kind of reminds me of the old anecdote about Neils Bohr and the lucky horseshoe - fortunately it works whether you believe in it or not. So that's comforting...