Apology

[avevale_intelligencer]

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.

Comments

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

That's exactly what I meant, and that is what I believe, but I did leave it open to misinterpretation as Keris has said.

I should also make it clear that it's entirely possible for someone to be intelligent, free of thought (in the good way), perceptive, courageous and honest, and still drive me crazy sometimes. That is almost certainly my problem, not theirs, but there are those who have sympathised with me about it and might therefore have wondered, in the circumstances, why they bothered. It is to them that I owe the apology.