:: how i know i've firmly planted both feet -- and brain -- on this side of the fence: i understand bertrand russell's arguments (Why I Am Not a Christian). i see, quite clearly, the premises from which his claims flow and the logical routes by which they reach their conclusions. and they leave me more convinced than ever that the lamp which now lights my path, the lamp he so hates, is the light of Truth. and i'm convinced that russell was far too severely blinded, by his own ignorance and by his own dogmatic hatred of dogma, to qualify as a "great thinker." ::

well put