Comments on: Neale Donald Walsch – God’s plagerist?

By: tony

tony — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:35:31 +0000

Come on, we have all said stories that our not our own but made out that they are.

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By: SeandBlogonaut

SeandBlogonaut — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:07:25 +0000

I wonder if there is a text book that evangelicals quote these stories from? I have just finished visiting a secondhand book store that had several shelves devoted to Christian ministry. Ranging from liberal catholic liturgical books to stuff on the emergent church. I expect there is a market for ready made moralistic stories ready to copy and paste into your sermon.

By: SeandBlogonaut

SeandBlogonaut — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:54:48 +0000

Yes I think. He's asking a bit too much for us to swallow the story. Still I doubt it will make much of difference to those that follow him.

By: the chaplain

the chaplain — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:29:38 +0000

I've heard evangelical preachers tell canned stories in the first person on multiple occasions. Whenever I heard such an account, I would go home, or to the library at the Christian college where I taught, and find the "first-person, it happened to me" stories in at least one book or journal (yes, I amuse myself in weird ways sometimes). My respect for the people who employed the tactic diminished considerably.

As for Walsch, over time, he may have come to believe that the story was his. At the beginning, though, there probably was an occasion on which he decided to recast it as his rather than someone else's. At that point, unless it was just a story hanging around at the back of his mind for quite awhile, he chose to be dishonest.

By: SeandBlogonaut

SeandBlogonaut — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:40:56 +0000

Yes I think. He's asking a bit too much for us to swallow the story. Still I doubt it will make much of difference to those that follow him.

By: John Evo

John Evo — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:09:46 +0000

I definitely accept the fact of false memory syndrome. I am, however, greatly suspicious that he is self-aware enough to have discovered it in himself, rather than just using it as an excuse for wrong-doing.