"Put up yer wallets and pull out yer daughters ...
Minister Skyddz just may be our 'Joseph Smith'
of the 21st Century!"
~Fate

"Caveat Emptor...."
~Satan

"Be careful with this.
You could start a new religion."
~ Piers Anthony

I don't much mind the World thinkin' I'm a weirdo. The truth is, you couldn't guess the half of it.

The Revelations of Minister Skyddz began as a piece of "poetry" to occupy myself while I suffered from a dilemma between my drummer and I which I had created myself, with no help what-so-ever. We'd had kind-of a practical joke/public humiliation thing goin' for a while.... But I stepped (leapt) over the line. Anyway, I had my guitarist read it, as, he's a poet-unsurpassed in my World, and I always seek his opinion. He liked it. In fact; he loved it, and with a tinge of jealousy called me a f__ker. I took it as a complement, and continued the piece with renewed zeal.

When I realized the piece was too big for music, I also realized that if the thing was ever published as a book, because of the subject matter, this was an opportunity to attempt to change some of the ways we behave toward each other/the ways we treat each other. In my opinion there is too much hatred in the World. Not enough tolerance.

Oh, yeah-- And I think that organized religion is laughable at best, and Christianity must be stopped!!

Did I mention that I'm an Ordained Minister??

"The Revelations of Minister Skyddz is a short version of The Bible (the author promises further installments) offering up all sorts of twists and perversions of the original, including a wicked parody of Adam and Eve and a brilliant rendering of Satan's story. What a sense of humour!"

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"E. J. Vance claims to be an ordained minister and is quite derogatory regarding organized religion. If this is true, I admire his effort even more. "Revelations" is wicked good!" - Clayton Clifford Bye (Full review here)