mice, I liked your first post very much but I'm still at a loss to understand what belief in god/religious faith has to do with the two tenets of good living that you mentioned. I think those are good tenets to live by too. I don't think religious faith is necessary to think that and to try to live by them. Nor was Christianity the first 'philosophy' to suggest those ideas. So, to me, they are not religious tenets but simply human ones.
aka, I respect your point of view about controversial words, but there really was no need to remark on Greatnan's terminology in this thread. You could have commented on it in Pedants' Corner if you feel strongly about it. I think that would have been better. As it is, your comment seems to me to be unnecessarily picky.
You know Greatnan is a thinking, caring person, and as miceelf said, 'remedial' is not intrinsically a problematic word. You complain about being 'attacked' but it was you who made the first unnecessary quibble which was, essentially, a kind of attack itself. A mild one, admittedly, but also an unnecessary one. I really don't think you can complain about the responses you got.