Religions
According to some sources, the dominate religion in Vietnam is Buddhism which accounts for more than 85% of the population. The second largest religion is Christianity, which makes 8% of the population:
- Buddhism, 85%
- Secular/triple religion, 80%
- Hoa Hao, 3%
- Theravada Buddhism, 2%
- Christianity, 8%
- Roman Catholic, 7%
- Protestant, 1%
- Cao Dai, 3%
- Other religions, 4%
In contradictory, some other sources such as the CIA World Factbook state that more than 80% of the people claim to be atheists. Buddhists and Christians account more than two third of the remaining 20%. In this account, Vietnam is one of the most atheist countries in the world:
- Atheism, 80.8%
- Buddhism, 9.3%
- Christianity, 7.2%
- Roman Catholic, 6.7%
- Protestant, 0.5%
- Hoa Hao, 1.5%
- Cao Dai, 1.1%
- And other religions
Read more about this topic: Demographics Of Vietnam
Famous quotes containing the word religions:
“All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organisation. For the latter makes use of violence, the former—of the corruption of the will.”
—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)
“It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.”
—Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)
“Those who believe in their truth—the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men—leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)