http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/01/07/o_they_will_know_we_are_christ Comments On: O They Will Know We Are Christians... by Dan Savage en-us Copyright 2009 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0800 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:45:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by east coaster]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:38:35 -0800 The Stranger
Oh wait, those are the creative misapplication statistics and bitch fights. My bad.
Posted by David Wright]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:37:09 -0800 The Stranger
Please don't.

The guy fucked up by claiming personal experience of a story that was too well-known, but don't use the blanket term of 'Christian' to describe him.
Posted by morgi]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:46:31 -0800 The Stranger Gays are marrying!

*swoon*
Posted by yucca flower]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:31:49 -0800 The Stranger
Here's the text from the card announcing their donation to this cause. (I actually googled this.)

In the late 1990's, in Nicaragua, missionary Father Marco Dessy passed by the Chinandega city dump. Through the swarms of flies he could see the rotting food, discarded cardboard, crushed plastic containers, and broken bottles. He then noticed that roaming among the piles of steaming garbage were starving dogs, horse, oxen.

Then, to his complete and utter horror, he saw dozens upon dozens of young children, pregnant mothers, and entire families, sifting through the heaps of refuge, desperately looking for something to eat and something to salvage. These were the "Children of the Dump."
Posted by Amelia]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:46:35 -0800 The Stranger Plagiarising gay poets in terrorist threat letters??
It's the end of the world as we know it.....
Posted by tell me when it's safe to look...]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:42:04 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Greg]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:26:44 -0800 The Stranger was love, indeed.
Posted by Chris in Tampa]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:15:05 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Urgutha Forka]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:33:26 -0800 The Stranger Posted by mareada]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:32:08 -0800 The Stranger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neale_Donal…

Posted by Vinowen]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:28:49 -0800 The Stranger
Christians have bad taste. I can't judge them based off of one man's plagiarism, but the fact that trash like this gets lapped up as 'meaningful' doesn't bode well for the religion. They'd rather read mushy 'chicken soup for the soul'-type crap than the bible itself. It seems like it's written for 9 year olds.
Posted by Stoppin ze throwinze]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:14:01 -0800 The Stranger
unless @7 was a sockpuppet... in which case, well played madam/sir.
Posted by five flasks from feelin fine]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:09:32 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Amelia]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:03:30 -0800 The Stranger Posted by elenchos]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:51:28 -0800 The Stranger Should be a literary category of its own.On Snopes the category is called "glurge." Edward Gibbon called it "pious fraud" but I like glurge better.
Posted by elenchos]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:48:56 -0800 The Stranger
Actually, considering it's a rather lame story in the first place (upside M looks like a W! Changes the meaning to be... absolutely nothing!), I guess that doesn't surprise me.
Posted by O]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:43:50 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fnarf]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:42:07 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Amelia]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:33:52 -0800 The Stranger
Although the story about the story has circled the interent for years, (often as author unknown--which may be how you found it) it's actually a true story about a copyrighted story, titled Christmas Love.

Please make sure the correct author byline is added immediately. Thank you.

Candy Chand
Posted by Candy Chand]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:28:01 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fnarf]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:24:09 -0800 The Stranger
If you've ever read all 3 of the CWG series you'll realize that this incident may not be all that surprising considering that he, like most new age baby-boomer writers, essentially rely on synthesis of plagiarizing bits of Eastern philosophy combined with their own personal 'woo-woo' touches.
Posted by Vinowen]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:22:29 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Amelia]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:20:00 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Your Savior Bush]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:19:33 -0800 The Stranger Posted by w7ngman]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:09:44 -0800 The Stranger