[Buddha-l] Confession

[Jim Peavler]

Toward the end of his life the great father of his country John Adams, raised a Calvinist but found attending a Unitarian church more comfortable, after years of struggling seriously with religion, particularly the relationship between religion and government, had boiled, he said, his entire moral/religious philosophy down to:

Be good and just.
 
He also wrote, about his friend/enemy Thomas Jefferson, "How could a rational creature believe that a human is a rational creature!"



Jimalakirti
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"When the experts are agreed, the opposite opinion cannot be held to be certain; 
"When [they] are not agreed, no opinion can be regarded  as certain by a non-expert;   
"When they all hold no sufficient grounds for a positive opinion to exist, the ordinary man would do well to suspend his judgement."  Bertrand Russell.