The preacher's name was Jed Smock, and I believe his crass, bigoted and hateful ranting turned me (and countless other students) OFF to the *Good News* for years. It took me a long time to discover Christians like Thomas Merton and G.K. Chesterton, who are to that guy what Beethoven and Mozart are to GG Allin.
At the time, I thought Paul was funny as hell. Now, I believe he just represents an even nastier and more vapid form of self-loathing and barely-concealed misanthropy.
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From: David Coons <yahoo_at_artscans.com>
> In fact, I believe John has in his film archives some footage
> of a very short interview we did with the Reverend ___ that Paul
> Ross was heckling once at UCLA. It's possible that Paul's heckling
> forever diverted us from religious observance by wrapping a
> kind of verbal condom around the great pontificator..
>
> But then again, we may never know.
>
> dc
>
> tschibasch wrote:
> >
> >
> > Yes, of course.
> >
> > A long time ago I discovered Paul Ross had a wikipedia entry of his
> > own. But should we be so surprised?
> >
> > John
> >
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