07 January 2009

False Witness

From today's New York Times:
Neale Donald Walsch, author of the best-selling series “Conversations With God,” recently posted a personal Christmas essay on the spiritual Web site Beliefnet.com about his son’s kindergarten winter pageant. . . .

Mr. Walsch’s story was nearly identical to an essay by a writer named Candy Chand, which was originally published 10 years ago in Clarity, a spiritual magazine, and has been circulating on the Web ever since. Mr. Walsch now says he made a mistake in believing the story was something that had actually come from his personal experience.
I have that same problem all the time!

I keep having to remind myself that I wasn't actually carried off in my house by a cyclone after seeing my parents die because of a sabotaged trapeze. It's a lifelong struggle.

3 comments:

  1. Too funny! (You, not Mr. Walsch.)

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  2. God told him he did it. Who you gonna believe? Your lying memory or God? 'Fess!

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  3. It does take a certain boldness to name your book series after what's often taken as a symptom of schizophrenic psychosis.

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