Spong on believing

I discovered this tidbit from John Spong after posting my rantings on Christian Believing yesterday. It would seem that he confirms my thinking on this. However, for Spong the shift that I spoke of is not the dysangellion that I think it is...

"Personal words about God - we must learn to admit - reveal, not God, but our own yearning. So believers in exile today are forced to face the fact that today all Bibles, creeds, doctrines, prayers and hymns are nothing but religious artefacts created to allow us to speak of our God-experience at an earlier point in our history. But history has moved us to a place where the literal content of these artefacts is all but meaningless, the traditional definitions inoperative and the symbols no longer competent pointers to reality."