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Beet
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« on: October 06, 2014, 04:47:43 PM »

Positive. It's still hard to believe that in the early 19th century, it was thought that Buddhism was the world's largest religion. Now there are hardly any Buddhist-majority countries left, except for maybe a few in Southeast Asia.
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« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2014, 05:47:33 PM »

Oh come on, that's obviously false. The same wikipedia line says that "70–85% of Japanese profess no religious membership or personal religion."
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« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2014, 06:22:38 PM »

What's your point? To refute my line about there hardly being any Buddhist countries left except a few in Southeast Asia? Japan, China, and Taiwan are not Buddhist, they are largely secular. Tibet is not a country. I support Tibetan independence myself, but us saying it's a country doesn't make it one. Vietnam is borderline at best. Only about 8% of Vietnamese are practicing. I don't know why you seem so determined to refute one throwaway line by me. So far you've deliberately twisted a wikipedia quote, and make up a new country to exaggerate Buddhism. What's your motive?
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« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2014, 06:46:37 PM »

Alright, I'm not mad anymore. I overreacted a bit. You're right, I shouldn't have referred to Buddhism as being only majority in a few countries.
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