[Buddha-l] Bertrand Russell

[Richard Hayes]

On Wednesday 09 August 2006 13:28, Barnaby Thieme wrote:

> That quote comes from Russell's famous essay "Why I am Not a
> Christian", and it may be found on page 19 of the book of the
> same name.

Back in the days when I was under Russell's spell, the book you cite 
almost inspired me to write a book of my own called "Why I am not a 
Buddhist," but I got too lazy to list all the reasons. So I decided 
instead to write messages to various Buddhist venues outlining in 
some detail my views on Buddhism and let everyone else tell me why 
I'm not a Buddhist. 

Alas, most of the responses to my messages were so utterly foolish 
and poorly reasoned that they failed to convince me that I'm not a 
Buddhist, from which I can only conclude that I really am a 
Buddhist after all, if only by virtue of the failure of others to 
make the case that I am not.

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico