Call me Ishmael

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Can I hear an "Amen"?

Ads for freelance writing gigs on Craig's List vary greatly. Some are dull, while others -- like a recent ad from a wannabe Mafia memoirist seeking a ghostwriter -- are anything but. And then there's "Editor for Messianic work," which includes the following passage:

Must be open to new truth if that truth is truly from God (which I assure [it] is) and is provable scripturally. Must not be locked into traditions received from the established church, if these traditions can be proven false in the scriptures. These new truths are from the Lord, and will shake things up in the religious world, and will be very powerful in the Messianic movement and in preparing the Church as the bride of the Jewish Messiah.

Presumably, Tom Hanks' Da Vinci Code character has already been notified.