[Buddha-l] buddha-l Digest, Vol 103, Issue 6

[Richard Hayes]

On Sep 12, 2013, at 22:49, "Dan Lusthaus" <vasubandhu at earthlink.net> wrote:

> But it's much easier to accuse me of distortions and oversimplifications than looking at the world with clear eyes.

No, it's easy to accuse you of distortions because that's the only product you peddle. 

>  "Religion" has a fairly clear referent; "ethnicity" is vague and plastic.

While I'm inclined to agree that "ethnicity" is a hopelessly murky term, it is not at all obvious to me what the referent of "religion" is. If anything, it is even more poorly delineated and more conducive to hopeless confusion than "ethnicity".

But then I speak as someone with no religion and even less ethnicity.