A verbatim transcipt of a conversation is a rendering of precisely what was said, word for word. The version of the conversation quoted in this post is paraphrased. It is not verbatim. It consists of the narrator’s narrative summary and interpretation of what was said. You see the difference?

‘Pardon us for our inclination to believe the version RightGirl posted.”

That inclination surprises me not in the least. The narrator’s version was clearly written to elicit exactly that response, as was Right Girl’s decision to post those excerpts. I am simply pointing out the world of difference between:
- a paraphrased, edited narrative posted by an ideologue on an ideological site, and
- a transcript.

“This seems to fall right in line with what we have come to expect from socialists…..and communists, behavior. For some odd reason, religion scares the hell out of them. ”

Not really. Religion doesn’t scare me, except when it seems to shut down folks’ capacity for rational thought – I think abortion clinic bombers and Islamist suicide terrorists are equally nuts.

Socialist Christians tend to view Christ as a proto-socialist, and I think there’s at least as good an argument to made for that position, based on scripture, as for the position that he was a capitalist.

For some odd reason, religion scares the hell out of them. They seem to view Christianity as a direct threat to their idealogy, and as history shows, they’d be right.