Posted on 01/06/2009 4:15:26 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian
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 that was nearly identical to a 10-year-old article originally published by a little-known writer in a spiritual magazine. He now says he made a mistake in believing the story was something that had actually happened to him.
Candy Chand said she originally wrote the piece about her son Nicholas and his kindergarten winter pageant and published it in Clarity magazine in 1999. During a dress rehearsal for the performance, a group of children spelled out the title of a song, “Christmas Love,” with each child holding up a letter. One girl held the “m” upside down, so that it appeared as a “w,” and it looked as if the group was spelling “Christ Was Love.”
The passages were reprinted, with Ms. Chand clearly stated as the author, in “Chicken Soup for the Christian Family Soul” in 2000, as well as on heartwarmers.com, a Web site for inspirational stories. In 2005 Ms. Chand copyrighted the story with the United States Copyright Office. Last June Gibbs Smith, a small independent publisher, released Ms. Chand’s story “Christmas Love” as an illustrated gift book. The story has also been passed around through e-mail and on blogs, sometimes without attributing it to Ms. Chand.
Except for a different first paragraph in which Mr. Walsch wrote that he could “vividly remember” the incident, his Dec. 28 Beliefnet post followed, virtually verbatim, Ms. Chand’s previously published writing, even down to prosaic details like “the morning of the dress rehearsal, I filed in ten minutes early, found a spot on the cafeteria floor and sat down.”
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Well. Nice try, anyway.
Busted.
“He now says he made a mistake in believing the story was something that had actually happened to him.”
ROFLMAO!
No way, they're both wrong!! It's my story and it actually happened to ME. I'm going to sue. /s
I would like to know how someone pretends that the whole story, right down to the most ordinary and obscure details, actually happend to him. HA HA, buddy, you're busted.
It’s interesting that a New-Age anti-Christian would plagerize a lovely story about Christ. (I guess he has a different definition of who Christ is: ie the enlightened self or somesuch.)
"Dear God, it's a MIRACLE!" is pretty much all he's got left.
He now says he made a mistake in believing the story was something that had actually happened to him.
(((((((
What tha..? Surprised this guy wasn’t telling this story on Oprah.
Having had a story stolen that was made into a televised crime drama, trust me when I tell you that if you don’t need the money and someone uses your story and it is a hit, you begin to smile not long after you catch your breath. If the money doesn’t matter, it’s a heck of a validation.
Even the FIRST time it supposedly happened...big deal...some miracle! A kid turns a letter upside down by mistake and it changes the message.
Christ “was” love? In the past tense is He? Don’t think so.
But this guy takes the cake.
Busted!
He might want to have a conversation with God about this.
So the guy is either lying or is having some serious mental issues and needs medical/psychiatric care.
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