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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (4020)	2/3/2001 10:24:38 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

That is very true in the commercial market and academic field. About ten years ago, a pastor of a large Baptist church here in Houston wrote a devotional book. It became public (and got into the Houston Chronicle) that the book copied verbatim large passages from a book previously published some decades back by another pastor. The pastor who had the material "stolen" from him responded in print that he didn't mind at all and hoped the material would help to spread the word of God. The argument that borrowing language previously used by others in sermons and devotional works is common in the religious field was offered at that time as a defense of the pastor's use of the material from an earlier published work. I know that books of sermons are bought by pastors and material appearing therein is sometimes used in sermons. I think the idea is that this sort of use is for a higher than commercial or academic purpose.