[Buddha-l] it's not about belief

[SJZiobro at cs.com]

Wong Weng Fai <wongwf at comp.nus.edu.sg> wrote:

>
>I believe it was Bertrand Russell who wrote something like "Man is not
>free to choose between believing and not believing. He is only free to
>choose what he believes in."
>
>Maoists, communists, imperialists, "freedom fighters" and "liberators"
>have no problem justifying violence without even reference to an ancient
>religion.

I wonder if the real issue in discussions such as this regards the limitations of knowledge and authority?  The question then becomes whose knowledge becomes the criterion of analysis, with a further question related to the authority of the knower.

Stan Ziobro