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A Wikipedia Entry or a Hagiography[edit]

It behoves the authors to add a section, however small, that contains some criticisms. At the very least, he displayed an ignorance of the nature of the Olympic gods and misunderstood what the Greeks meant when then talked about them/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.12.203.135 (talk) 00:02, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Error en la biografía?[edit]

"he asked the philosopher John Stuart Mill to act as Russell's secular godfather.[80] Mill died the year after Russell's birth".

According to that statement, Russel was at most two years old when he made that petition... is that correct? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jose Icaza (talk • contribs) 18:44, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Agnostic[edit]

In the very short section on "Religion", the article says that Russell described himself as "an agnostic" and that he regarded religion as "little more than superstition." He was a Humanist. Does this really justified all the Categories he has as "Critics of ..."? Why do we limit ourselves to Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and the Catholic Church? Why not also Category:Critics of Buddhism, etc.? These categories look to me a bit like WP:SYNTH. One might expect to see open criticism or hostility to specific religions or denominations. But there is none. Martinevans123 (talk) 13:51, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Most of them seem to have been added by a single-purpose categorization editor, without explanation. Critics of religion and Christianity remain after another editor reverted. Since Russell wrote Why I Am Not a Christian, it is probably fine to retain Criticism of Christianity, though more information supporting the category would be a benefit. Hrodvarsson (talk) 00:10, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

Republican?[edit]

Is there actually a reliable source which verifies Russell was a republican? The Category:British republicans has been added, but I can't find evidence of this. -- TrottieTrue (talk) 00:43, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

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