Ed, you suffer from an acute case of cerebral-mandibular dysrhythmia. 
Had to work that one out from first principles... in this case Google was not my friend. Yes, in this case I broke my #1 rule for posting on the interweb, which is never ever to discuss religion or politics, and so acute was my case of C-M-D that I didn't even realise I was breaking it! My bad, as they say in the colonies.
Ed,
Thank you for the explanation. I certainly did not see that you gave offence. What I saw was that you had an idea, a reaction, and articulated it somewhat poorly. I guess it would be fair to say that I thought you had shot yourself in the foot. You have clarified your position commendably and there are no hard feelings at this end.
Cheers,
W
You can say that again! Thanks for replying - I feel better now!
Moderator, members are disagreeing with each other. Can you please sort it out? 
Seriously? (At this point I should insert an "I get your irony" emoticon, but I don't know how.)
Part of me quite misses the flame wars which used to break out on this forum a few years back. Trouble is, everyone is so damn nice these days. I remember one guy - I think from the mid-west - who posted endless pictures of nondescript houses, unappealing swamps etc, usually taken in flat light, always with some glaring technical deficiency, and no matter how polite and constructive the resulting criticism was he always took it very badly. Actually, it wasn't so much a case of a flame war, more a case of some random guy ranting and raving about his unrecognised talent and everyone else rolling their eyes and looking vaguely embarrassed. Hilarious. I think he got banned in the end.
