As the Roe v. Wade anniversary marches are set to begin, I sometimes confront (and succeed in) questions from people who tell they've read/heard religious "authorities" contradict my Vatican faith; here is an example typical of the genre.   

A series of books by Episcopal Bishop Spong appeared circa 2001, each another facet in attempting to deconstruct the Divinity of Jesus Christ.

According to such books, being largely Spong’s personal opinions as an invited lecturer to Harvard elites, it seems to reduce that Spong advocates Thomas Jefferson-like Deism…sure some God created our entire universe, but is NOT its God of history (even if this God CAUSED the dawn of time?) and certainly in no way has ever nor can ever interact with humans this side of eternity.

From such basic if grandly worded yet circuitously arrived-at self-opinion, it seems Jesus Christ was just a man who advocated philanthropy in this life with no strings attached for those who said “no, thanks” or simply wished to indulge every desire they felt benefitted them in this one and only life…especially with Spong’s vision that no original sin nor God-made prohibitions/salvation in any way could exist given the Watch Maker’s PERMANENT absentee landlord status and all, He not having expectation of ever meeting any of us. Spong bases his opinions in such works solely upon the lone fact the four Gospels contained different (non-conflicting) matter in places, were written a few years apart, and to Spong’s reading Paul makes no manifest believe in Christ’s Divine origin, bodily resurrection, or Divinity.

Given the monumental errors of omitted collateral Church and secular history, I continue to stand with the theistic tradition of the Vatican when confronted with “arguments” made of wet paper bags and presented as celebrity one-handed clapping.