When Is It Irresponsible to Validate Fears?

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@sabbamitta

First: Can you please help me out: What article exactly are you referring to as “diatribe”?

Why Secular Buddhism is Not True

What, you think I’m just stirring the pot with that title? Have you met me? A fairly recent publication in the genre of “secular Buddhism” has come to my attention, Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright: It’s received a lot of mostly positive mainstream press: And it’s currently sitting pretty at number 5 on the New York Times non-fiction list. Kudos! It’s fairly standard in early Buddhism circles to dismiss the central claims of secular Buddhism, but I am not one of those who thinks…

I think it was first called “Why Secular Buddhism is False.”