Hopefully no one's taking any of this seriously - the fake "Thomas" diary, or even the story itself. But as I find that I foolishly omitted the source info, let me set the record straight: this was "published" in the September 15, 2004 issue of The Holy Observer, a Christian satirical news site akin to The Onion.
The original can be found here: http://www.holyobserver.com/detail.php?isu=v02i04&art=cbs. I've written the Mods and asked that this be added to the source info at the top of the thread, since I forgot to cite it the first time.
*DOH*
I feel sooo slooowww!!!