Ever since Ray Yungen and his legion of copy-paste clones took my article "Desert Youth Worker" and quoted it ad nauseum for their anti-contemplative campaign, I google my name once a month just to see what new shit is being slung in my direction.
Imagine my surprise when this month's search warranted a YouTube video. Imagine my greater surprise when I found out that I had written a "famous book" called "Disciplines, Mystics and the Contemplative Life." I guess I wasn't so much surprised that I'd written a book, as it's something I've always wanted to do, but I was a bit shocked at what a lackluster title I'd chosen for it. I'm also very chagrined that no one's sent me my contributor's copy...
Load this video up and scroll through to 7:54 to hear Richard Bennett mispronounce my last name and announce that I live in "Alberta, Canada" as though the province were the only geographic marker north of the American border to delineate my location (Hey Richard, I live in Edmonton, the capital city of the province of Alberta. You could have googled my name and found that out). Hear Richard Bennett quote my "famous book" and claim that I'm offering you all some sort of spiritual honey that is "... deadly, infected with the disease that Satan would have you imbibe and take into your system." Wowzers.
I really wanted to leave a comment, clarifying that yet again, the research has not been done, but the comment function was disabled. Big surprise. Can dish it, but not willing to take it? The same quote, likely copied and pasted, shows up...now missing a word. I have never written a book on this subject, just one article. And morons like Dickie Bennett take all the time in the world to string me, McLaren and our other evil brethren up, but don't seem to have the time to investigate our entire corpus of writing. How come I'm never quoted for my article on Dungeons and Dragons? Let's face it, if you want to crucify an Evangelical Christian, that would be your quickest route.
To quote Marvin the Martian, "they make me verrrry angry!" Maybe I should go meditate...
