Buddhism - Socio Political Contributions

[Shanmukh]

If Rajeev Srinivasan & John Dalal are your sources, you should have said so. I have no wish to argue with either. The former is a conspiracy theorist, the latter is a traitor.

If you have clear figures, post them. Otherwise, it is just conspiracy theory & hot air. I say Christians are 40% in Cambodia. Does it make Cambodia 40% Christian?

Whatever....btw if figures are so okay, why doesn't government release religious census figures?

Dude - we `Dravidians' live in the states you mention & we know how many Christians are here. Despite your hyperactive imagination, there aren't 40% Christians anywhere. Especially in Kerala, their percentage has been decreasing - due to low birth rate & high Muslim birth rate. That's why you see so many Christian parties merging again & again - they are losing their position of power compared to 1970s, when they were ~21%. Your figures about Kerala, TN & AP are about as good as your SL figures. I posted actual SL figures from 1881. Where are your 21% Christians? Did you cook up those figures as well?

[arun]

Mohammadden majority country and member of Mohammadden religion based grouping of countries the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation formerly Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), Chad, bans Mohammadden religion mandated garment for women, the Burqua aka Burka.

Is the OIC going to raise a stink for one of their own members banning the Mohammadden religion mandated garment for women, the Burqua aka Burka, on the eve of the start of the Mohammadden holy month of Ramazan aka Ramadan?:

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From AFP via Yahoo here:

Chad bans full veil after deadly Boko Haram attacks

Apparently Mohammadden majority Chad was the second country on the African Continent to ban the burka / burqua for security reasons. The first country on the African Continent to ban the burka / burqua for security reasons was Congo-Brazzaville, an Abrahamic country like Chad though with a Christist majority:

Congo-Brazzaville bans Islamic face veil in public places

Illegal Mohammadden immigrants from Bangladesh who have forced themselves upon Myanmar now seek to also impose alien Mohammadden practices on their reluctant host’s resulting in a Myanmarese counter reaction.

Monks belonging to Myanmar’s principal Buddhist religion call for a ban of Mohammadden religion mandated dress for women:

Buddhist monks seek to ban schoolgirls from wearing headscarves in Burma

[member_29058]

For a change you are right. SL was 20% christian at the turn of the last century which has declined to 7%. We need Buddhism for strategic reasons in SE Asia - the only remaining bastion of non-Abrahamic faith in the world outside India. They are salivating at the prospects in SE Asia. If they succeed we will be the only isolated region in the world with a non-Abrahamic faith. That IMO is not good as it will bring our civilization under severe pressure to conform.

Indians will need to create Buddhism like features in Indian society and create large social movement to spread outside India.

Zen centers in US serve that purpose. No need to fight with Buddhists or No need for Buddhists to fight Hindus. The underlying dharma is same. Lets help Zen increase its foothold in the west. Most of the zen centers promote yoga too. I met zen center sangha members from Tampa, FL visited India and experience the magic of Ganges, Dharmasala and Varanasi. All of them were catholic before.

[Paul]

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/Li9LjMm ... inism.html

A new marriage law, for example, requires interfaith couples to register their intent to marry with local authorities, who will display a public notice of the engagement; only if no citizen objects to the union—highly unlikely in the present tense climate—is the couple permitted to wed. Another bill in the pipeline will forbid anyone under the age of 18 from converting to another religion, and will require even an adult seeking to convert to gain the permission—subject to repeated interrogation—of local officials.

Perhaps most disturbing, a third recent bill will allow for the imposition of Chinese-style population control on any group with a growth rate that is higher than the national average. Women could be ordered to wait, say, three years after the birth of a child before having another. Here, too, local governments, which are the most susceptible to popular prejudices, will be empowered to implement a law that seems specifically targeted at the Rohingyas.

[Yagnasri]

No doubt these people have more brains than us.