Reply #72: These are principles that I learnt as a child

[Starboard Tack]

in Sunday school and believed them to be Christian. Nobody suggested to me that these values were unique to Christianity, but just the building blocks. I do call them moral and human principles, but I was talking in context of someone raised with so-called "Christian values". Just because established religion in general peddles garbage, doesn't mean the founding principles were invalid. They may have been co-opted and used to manipulate the masses for nefarious reasons, but the principles stand up, no matter what you want to call them.
I have no interest in defending a church or religion that I hold little or no respect for and Charles has no need for me to defend him here. What he said came across as bigoted, I admit. But I can only say that is not how I know him to be. I'm sure he'll address it once he gets the hang of things around here, which can be quite overwhelming at first.