Apology

In the last post on religion I said:

I have many religious friends and many secular friends, and as to intelligence, freedom of thought, perception, courage and honesty I find nothing to choose between them, and I will not tolerate anyone implying otherwise.

Heat and exhaustion and general frustration caused me to miswrite. I should have said that I will be very upset if anyone says or implies in the pages of my particular LiveJournal that there is any causal connection between one group of people's hypothetical superiority or inferiority to another in terms of intelligence, freedom of thought, perception, courage or honesty, and their particular philosophical stance vis-a-vis the universe.

Obviously I neither have nor want to have any influence over what you write elsewhere, or any right of censorship over what anyone says or thinks about anyone else, and you are all free to badmouth each other absolutely any way you want, nor do you need me to tell you that.

I apologise for giving offence, and hope this retraction will go some way to atonement.

Crawling back under my rock now.