[Buddha-l] sam harris at the aspen institute

[Richard Hayes]

On Wednesday 15 August 2007 09:53, wongwf at comp.nus.edu.sg wrote:

> 6. Religion and wars: just as many, if not more, wars are caused - and
> will be caused - by greed, hatred and delusion.

...and by those religions that promote hatred and are based on delusion. Those 
that do not promote some form of hatred and are not based on serious 
delusions are few. It seems to me that the "anti-religion" gambit usually 
consists in defining religion as institutionally justified hatred and 
delusion, then saying of anything that is not hateful and deluded that it is 
not really religion. This seems to be the thinking of many who claim that 
Buddhism is not a religion.

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico