Reading this
entry at PZ's blog I figured he'd just fallen for a hoax humor article about
a Christian woman who wants her kidney back after the recipient rejected Christianity.It's hysterical.
TUPELO — Aleta Smith, who donated her kidney to a 20-year-old college student last year, wants it back now that the student has changed religions.
Smith, a self-described "on-fire Christian," gave her kidney to Hannah Felks, a Lutheran and regular Christian camp counselor, last year after seeing Felks on the local news.
"She was going to die unless she got a kidney," Smith says, sitting on the porch at her home. "They portrayed her as this nice Christian girl who works with kids. I saw it as a great opportunity to help a sister in the Lord."
The surgery grabbed headlines and Smith was lauded for her selflessness. But shortly after the surgery, Felks embarked on a "spiritual journey" to try out other religions, and settled on a blend of Pagan and Hindu beliefs.
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Smith was aghast when she heard of the conversion, and she quickly wrote a letter asking Felks to re-convert to Christianity or return the organ, saying it was donated under false pretenses.
"I feel helpless," she says. "Part of my body, my DNA, is stuck inside a person who's going to hell."
Smith suffers nightmares of her former organ filtering "strange Asian teas, pig blood and witch doctor brews in Africa," she says. She wonders if the Lord really wanted her to donate the kidney, or if she acted on a "triple-espresso high" she had that morning. She is also concerned that when her body is resurrected, it might be incomplete.
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In the meantime, Smith has alerted several dozen prayer chains, and her women's Bible study group is praying 12 hours a day for the re-conversion of Felks — and Smith's former kidney.
"I'm all for spiritual curiosity," she says, "but you've got to settle these things beforehand. My kidney belongs to Christ. It will never be Pagan."
Ha!
Anyway, I start looking around this "news" site, and would you believe it, it seems legit? This isn't a joke article as far as I can tell. Holy shit! It was funny as fiction, but if this is true I might just die laughing.Damn, it was fiction, but funny! I salute these guys, that's some wicked satire. I didn't see the right column which included
chronic looser nutures job complex and
Christian man unapologetic about having a beer now and then.I'm going to have to add this feed to my RSS reader.
**Update** My god, I disabled my privoxy adblocker and viewed the site, I really screwed that one up. Once I saw the add for "Ezekial Oh's" I nearly plotzed.
3 Comments:
Sorry, dude. Joke's back on you.
Any news site that involves articles on Joseph Smith's bodily return from the grave to hold forth to the Salt Lake council of elders is as fake as Pat Robertson's miracle leg press stats.
4:55 PM, August 29, 2006
Is Blogger misbehaving? My comment won't show up. Boohoo.
8:58 PM, August 29, 2006
I figured it had to be a joke. The main site looked like it had a bunch of almost-serious news stories. I've scanned through some of them more closely, now I get it.
It's really a hysterical site. Just believeable enough to be funny.
11:10 PM, August 29, 2006
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