More hypocrisy from the "godly perfect people" they make me SICK

[greenbriar]

NEW YORK – Neale Donald Walsch, best-selling author of "Conversations with God," said Tuesday that he unwittingly passed off another writer's Christmas anecdote as his own in a recent blog post.

As a result, Walsch's blog on the spirituality Web site Beliefnet.com has been shut down. The Web site said in a statement that Walsch had failed to properly credit and attribute material from another author.

Walsch had written about what he described as his son's holiday concert two decades ago in which children were to hold up letters spelling "Christmas Love." One of the children held the "m" upside down, so the audience got the message "Christwas Love," according to the retelling.

Author Candy Chand said in an interview Tuesday that she stumbled onto Walsch's post when she ran "Christmas Love" through an Internet search engine. She immediately recognized her own words, from her story based on her son's kindergarten Christmas pageant. She contacted Walsch and Beliefnet.

The story first appeared in a spiritual magazine in 1999, and was later anthologized. Chand said she copyrighted the story in 2005, in part because it had appeared on the Internet uncredited. The story was published as the illustrated book "Christmas Love" for this past Christmas, she said.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090107/ap_en_ot/author_plagiarism

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. There's an easy explanation for this..........

God told him to tell the story as if it were his own.

[TheHeathen]

2. So he plagiarized

from another author, BIG DEAL.

Most of the Bible was plagiarized from Pagan stories.

:evilgrin:

[hfojvt]

3. something just flashed in my memory

and sorta cracked me up

because it's a horrible, awful thing to post something on a blog that was written by somebody else and to claim it as your own.

That sort of behaviour makes you sick.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2478957#2478995

keiner ist ohne fehler

[tkmorris]

4. He UNWITTINGLY passed off another's work as his own?

How exactly does that happen? That's absurd. "Gee, I thought I wrote it, but I guess not. Sorry bout that".

On second thought, taken literally, maybe unwittingly describes it after all. It was a pretty witless thing to do.