Topic: What is your opinion on Buddhism???? - page 5. (Read 4730 times)

I also like some of the statements of this religion. And I like the fact that this religion propovedet peace and harmony.

I actually am a big fan of Buddhism and subscribe to many of its ideas (Although not all) in my opinion it is the most rational religions.

Buddhism is a religion that has no God. It is called a non theistic religion. It is all about the human, the way they life is, our thinking and struggle. It is practice by people and indirect, not really easy to understand on some. It is about meditation and reflection. It is all about basic goodness just my opinion regarding this matter. 

As I said previously,


They originate from a .gov website mentioned in the image (Bureau of Justice Statistics - Federal Bureau of Prisons)

Feel free to read all about their data collection policies if you are interested in such things
http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=141#data_collections



On the topic of Buddhism...

I appreciate that Buddhists do their own research and do not hassle me about something they could easily google themselves

I would agree. But only partially. A sample size of 500 is enough, if it gives the necessary weight to all the major demographic groups.

For example, a sample survey about the presidential race will consult 500 voters, out of whom approx. 350 will be non-Hispanic white, 75 African-American, 50 Hispanic, and 25 Asian and others. Gender-wise, they will have equal representation from males and females.

Are you sure that the surveyors have given accurate weight to the major groups here? For example, if the survey had an over-representation from New Mexico or California, it will have a bias towards Catholics (due to the Hispanic population). On the other hand, if there is an over-representation from the south-east, there will be a bias towards protestants.

That said, I don't claim that this survey is an outlier. The results, match with my expectations.

Every religion believes in theRealGod™

Although, my definition of "reality" is based on facts and evidence, rather than... I don't know... nothing?... There has never been a single shred of scientific evidence supporting the belief in any god... ever... it has never happened... not once in the entire 4 billion years this planet has existed

Then he should be called a hero or a doctor rather than being called as a prophet or whatever you call it.  I was not really able to understand those teachings when my teacher taught us those religion.  I mixed-up their beliefs and thought that they were all the same.  As long as we do good for our fellows it is okay even you do not have a religion or even from who you believed in.  The important thing is you show respect and love to one another.  Though I believe that there is one God, the real God who is always looking upon us and guide us.

My parents are Hindu, but I myself find it hard to believe in the deities presented in Hinduism. That's why I'd like to think I follow more of a Buddhist approach to life. I try and follow the values that Buddha did.

Buddha was an atheist.

He opposed the traditional stone worshipping practices as a solution of every human problem.

He showed people the cure for curable problem and lead them to spirituality to tackle with uncurable.

I didn't conduct the survey, but typically a sample size of 500 is considered sufficient... so 75,000 is WAY more than needed for an accurate depiction of the situation (150 times the sample size of your average poll, scientific study, etc)

These figures are as expected.. but I have to add a few things here. According to the US BJS, 2.2 million adults were incarcerated in US federal and state prisons, and county jails in 2013. And you have responses (74,731) only from 3.5% of this population. We don't know the religious affiliation of the remaining 96.5% of the prisoners.

My opinion is im surprised you call it a religion as its more a philosophy.  I have spent much of my life interested in buddhism though, its very scientific and logical, it makes sense.  I did consider becoming a monk at a few points in my life but im not sure you need to be a monk to be buddhist.

Which is why statistically speaking... Atheists are better people than christians...

Look at any comparable statistic, and you will see the truth... don't take my word for it, do your own research

I will provide an example... prison populations in USA:



Protestants are 46.5% of the general population, and 35% of the prison population... indicating they are less likely to commit crimes than the average person

Catholics are 21% of the general population, but 39% of the prison population... showing they are twice as likely to commit crimes than the average person

Muslims are 1% of the general population, yet 7% of the prison population!... They are 7x as likely to be criminals!

Mormons are 1.6% of the general population, and only 0.4% of the prison population... indicating they are 1/4th as likely to be criminals

Atheists are 3% of the general population, but only 0.2% of the prison population... showing atheists are 1/15th as likely to be a criminal compared to the average person...

(all this implies getting caught and going to jail, not "committing crimes", but we don't have statistics on people who didn't get arrested)




Statistically speaking...
Muslims are 120 times more likely to be criminals than Atheists
Catholics are 28 times more likely to be criminals than Atheists
Protestants are 11 times more likely to be criminals than Atheists
Even Mormons are 3.7 times more likely to be criminals than Atheists! (Mormons are quite good compared to anyone other than Atheists)

And there you have it... Atheists are the good guys... "by their fruits shall you know them"

Just because someone claims to "believe in God" does not mean he truly believes in God.

The bible says, '...by their fruits you shall know them.'

Those who truly believe in God will TRULY love His creation.

I like buddhism because I find it... peaceful. There have been episodes of violence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_violence) but it is less compared to the other big religions.

Commonly they are not GOD, they are only like angels in the heaven & someday they can die & reborn too like human beings.

In Buddhism, there are useless praying to asking something from the angels or even from The Great Teacher, Buddha Gautama.
if you see we do kneeling to statue, we do that to salute them because their level is better than us (and we use statue to make it easy about the direction & make different between of them like a photograph).
if you see we burning incense, we do that to remind us that we must do good karma in remark, deed & mind at everywhere to everyone (like the smell of incense everyone can smell it)
if you see we placing some flowers, we do that to remind us that our bodies are not eternal, we will get old, sick and die so do good karma before it too late.

Buddhism teach us if you want harvest something, plant it.
for example: if you want to be rich & happiness, start to do charity & donations (not always in money, it's can be your time, your energy, your suggestion, your smile, your joke and many more of your kindness that can help another one)

I hope it will help everyone to know more about Buddhism

regards

Do you have any evidence to prove this? Forget it. There is no point in arguing with those who are brainwashed by religious indoctrination.

Yeah ISIS do believe in god not with one God. Because their god is the god of war and we can see it on their attitudes that they don't have heart and they only just want to kill innocent people. Unlike buddhism, well we can't deny that they are much better and have peace on their hearts. Look at those monks they are very disciplined.

I can agree with that.. But If you consider about "therawada Buddhism" It is the pure buddhism.. IN my country Sri lanka 90% of buddhist still lives according to pure buddhism

ISIS also believe in one god.. They love people..As you say