[fporretto]

If you're going to quote me, whether to agree or to disagree, please do it accurately. I didn't say one of the words you so blithely put in my mouth. In particular, there is a vast difference between your word "contemporary," which means "pertaining to events of the present day," and my word "temporal," which means "pertaining to things of the natural, rather than the supernatural, world."

If a third party were to judge my sentiments by the words you put in my mouth, he would conclude that I disdain history and religious tradition. You would have produced a false image of my beliefs in his mind -- an image that might well prejudice him against me, without his ever having the opportunity to discover that you had misled him.

A graduate student at an American university should show proper respect for the meanings of words and the integrity of statements made by others. To distort the statements of others, or to attribute to them statements they did not make or sentiments they do not hold, is to descend to the deceitful, calumnious level of our adversaries.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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