Bertrand Russell

[mloco]

Bertrand Russell was a great philosopher and free thinker and is said to have given Christianity (same applies to Islam and Judaism) a body blow and exposed its absurdities; but even this great man got stuck when it came to Sikhism! In fact he gave up and said "that if some lucky men survive the onslaught of the third world war of atomic and hydrogen bombs, then the Sikh religion will be the only means of guiding them.†Russell was asked that he was talking about the third world war, but isn't this religion capable of guiding mankind before the third world war? In reply, Russell said, "Yes, it has this capability, but the Sikhs have not brought out in the broad daylight, the splendid doctrines of this religion which has come into existence for the benefit of the entire mankind. This is their greatest sin and the Sikhs cannot be freed of it." What Bertrand was most impressed with was that Sikhism does not have a doctrine of evangelism that it does not go out to try to subvert and convert. In some ways he thought that Sikhs should go out and propagate their great faith.

Does anyone knoe where he wrote this, what article/book?

Thanks

[tSingh]

hmmm I don't know about the reference.

But what I do know is that Betrand Russell is perhaps the greatest proponent of the agnostic critique of the cosmological argument for the existence of God, i.e. he didn't believe in God and actively critiqued the idea. How this ends in 'he thought that Sikhs should go out and propagate their great faith' I don't know!