Any comparision between Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Confusius and Christianity?

Question

a SWOT analysis will do.

Answer 1

Islam, Christianity are Western Religion..

Hinduism, Buddhism, Confusius are Eastern Religion..

The main different between western with eastern religion are..
1. eastern see God as undescribe-able.. the universe force.. the great void.. while western see God as figure with human's characteristic like love, hate, etc..
2. western believe in eternal hell and eternal heaven... eastern believe in reincarnation.. though there's also heaven and hell but those are impermanence.
3. western is misionaries, eastern less..
4. western give enlightment by accepting/believing One powerful spiritual entity.. eastern by self inner effort..
5. eastern have concept of 'karma'.. law of sow and reap.. which has connection with concept of 'reincarnation'

Islam believe Jesus is not son of God and God still send another and also the last prophet which is Muhammad.. and so opposites for Christian..

Hinduism, Buddhism, Confusius is just about way of living life..
i don't know much about Hinduism.. Buddhism is about developing self-understanding and awareness.. Confusius is about way of family, moral and values to lived in life, respect to parent/elder, many rules that is made to create order.

Christian has the most follower today.. 2 billions.. following Islam 1.3 billion Atheists.. 1.1 billion Hindu 900 million Buddhist 360 million.
i think most Christian is in europe and america which are the richest country. Islam also a rich country (oil).. but they both fighting in war.. since both are missionaries, they both will gaining more follower i guess.
Buddhist is gaining popularity to western for its teaching has scientific approach and its meditation practice is universal. so other religion can adopt its meditation practice without converting.
Hinduism somehow specific to India and so Confusius specific to China.
well, i think the map of religion will still the same.. Christian and Islam still has the biggest follower and the richest.. but its follower a little declined due to increasing of atheist, pagan, new age, buddhist, etc.

hehehe that's just my assumptions..

Answer 2

What makes Christianity stand out is that Jesus was the only prophet to claim that he is actually God. And Jesus didn't limit himself to being the God of the Christians or Jews only. He is the God of all religions, of the whole worldly population, if only people, one by one, believe. Jesus was God who came to earth -- he loved us that much to suffer what we suffer and feel what we feel.

On the other hand, Mohammed, Buddha and Confusius claimed either to be prophets of God, looking for God or philosophers -- not God himself. As for the Hindu gods, I'm not sure if anyone has had a real face-to-face conversation with any of them -- I actually don't know much about the Hindu religion.

Answer 3

Dont compare religions. Let the people follow what they chose to be their religion. Comparision only create differences and hatred.

Answer 4

i'd say a standard loose present provided to you and organic faith, James a million:27 isn't demanding to understand in any respect! (The 'relax' are puzzling!) God isn't the author of bewilderment! (Acts 4:10-12.) real Christianity is a 'walk' with Him. (The 'relax' are merely attempting to promote you 'some thing'!) <')))><

Answer 5

LOl@SWOT They are all fantasy stories.

Answer 6

Hinduism's greatest feature has been its positive ideas and those who do not belong to it are not infidels or heretics. Hinduism does not believe in bringing about a mechanical uniformity of belief and worship by a forcible elimination of all that is not in agreement with a particular creed.

It never opposed scientific enquiry. While all Semitic religions have opposed the pursuit of science at one time or another, India has always welcomed scientific enquiry.

All missionary religions, like Islam and Christianity profess that they have the highest truth.

The distinguishing feature of Hinduism is pluralism combined with freedom of choice.

Freedom of choice – distinguishes pluralistic Hinduism from other Semitic religions. In the Hindu tradition, one is free to choose, question and reject. A Hindu faces no dire consequences even if he rejects the Vedas as false.

Secularism is a practice of extremely long standing in India – going back to the Vedic times.

Secularism evolved in Europe as a negation of religious authority as embodied in church theocracy. It was a humanistic movement which had at its goal the removal of religious authority from the affairs of the state.

Samuel Huntington of the Clash of Civilizations fame writes, "Only in Hindu civilization were religion and politics so distinctly separated. "

The history of religions illustrates the tragic effect of intolerant and exclusive faiths. God has no special favorites. God as a jealous one and there will be no peace in the religious world.

According to the Bhagavad Gita:

"I am alike to all being." "None is hateful or dear to me. "

. "As men approach me so do I accept them. Men on all sides follow my path."

Since Hinduism has no founder, anyone who practices Dharma can call himself a Hindu. Hinduism lays emphasis on direct Experience rather than on authority.

Knowledge, vision, wisdom, is the goal of the Upanishads. It is a new kind of thinking in which the whole man in implicated. The aim is not intellectual conformity to inherited doctrine, but one of attainment of knowledge. He can question the authority of any scripture, or even the existence of the Divine. Despite being the oldest religion, the truth realized by the seers prove that the Truth and path provided by Hinduism is beyond time. Its concern is with the absolute Truth, not with systems of belief. The absolute Truth is universal, and forever impersonal. No one has a proprietary claim to it. Hinduism is a religion that bears a great intellectual heritage with six schools of classical philosophy. Hinduism extends into every aspect of the believer's life.

J. Abbe Dubois, (1765-1848) French missionary, has said that India is:

"the only nation perhaps in the universe which has never sunk into barbarism, and which...may deserve to fix the attention of the philosopher."

Narrowness of the spirit, peculiar to Semitic faiths, has been alien to India. Nazism, fascism, and communism have been expressions of the same Semitic spirit in the secular realm. Hindus, are in Western terms, pagans. Religion is a Semitic enterprise and is alien to their spirit and ways. Unlike the traditions of the Middle East, classical Hinduism is not a religion of the book: it is a 'heard' tradition. Its scriptures are recited, or sung not read. Though the Rig Veda is very ancient, it was not written down until almost 3,000 years later. The script was available, but the verses were considered so powerful that they were protected from possible misuse by being transmitted orally from master to disciple, father to son.

No other living tradition can claim scriptures as numerous or as ancient as Hinduism; none of them can boast of an unbroken tradition as faithfully preserved as the Hindu traditions.

"Hinduism is a process - for this reason, Hinduism must be studied not as a fixed body of doctrine, but as a developing tradition that has changed considerably throughout the centuries and which is still changing in a creative direction. Everything in India makes sense in the light of the changing process. Nothing makes sense without it. Hinduism is still a living, changing process and must be seen as such."

(source: Religions of India: Hinduism, Yoga, Buddhism - Thomas Berry p. 3-16).

Hinduism, in its plethora of symbols and images, Symbolism helps the seeker to concentrate his mind on the worship and meditation of god.

As the Vishnu Samhita puts it:

"Without a form how can God be mediated upon? If (He is) without any form, where will the mind fix itself? When there is nothing for the mind to attach itself to, it will slip away from meditation or will glide into a state of slumber. Therefore the wise will meditate on some form, remembering, however, that the form is a superimposition and not a reality."

Transcendent (impersonal) and Immanent (personal).

In the transcendent aspect, the Supreme Reality is called Nirguna Bramh, that is Bramh, without attributes.

In its Immanent (personal) aspect, the Supreme Reality, is called Saguna Bramh. He is the personal God, the creator, the preserver, and the controller of the universe.

God in Hinduism is not the creator of the individual soul, (atman). The atman is divine and eternal.

It does not believe in concepts of proselytization, heresy hunting, Holy wars, proclamation of chosen people or a jealous God. Hinduism is an inclusive faith which provides for every form of religious experience and belief; there can by no heresy or Kufr in Hinduism.

Sin in Hinduism

Christianity and Judaism are religions of exile: Man was thrown out of the Garden of Eden resulting in his "fall."

Man is not born as a sinner in Hinduism. "Each soul is potentially divine."

"God sleeps in the rocks," proclaims the Indian scriptures, "dreams in the plants, stirs toward wakefulness in the animals, and in mankind is awake to his own ego individuality." In the enlightened stage, finally, he awakens to the full reality of who he truly is, in His infinite Self.

India has had an unrivalled tradition of religious freedom and tolerance. That tradition was born of the consciousness that truth can never be the monopoly of any one sect or creed.

Infinite tolerance is the hallmark of Hinduism.

Hinduism allows absolute freedom to the rational mind of man. Hinduism never demands any undue restraint upon the freedom of human reason, the freedom of thought, feeling and will of man.

Religion is not a matter of exclusive dogma. It is a wide tolerance, a feeling that others may be equally right in the methods they follow, that is the essence of Hindu teaching.

Exclusivism and intolerance in matters of faith are features of Semitic religions—Judaism, Christianity, Islam. Contrary to these desert-born religions, intolerance and persecution were alien to Hinduism. Encyclopaedia Brittannica defines Hinduism as: "In principle, Hinduism incorporates all forms of belief and worship without necessitating the selection or elimination of any. The Hindu is inclined to revere the divine in every manifestation, whatever it may be, and is doctrinally tolerant.... A Hindu may embrace a non-Hindu religion without ceasing to be a Hindu...he tends to believe that the highest divine powers complement each other for the well being of the world and the mankind."

The religious hospitality of Hinduism is proverbial.

Eastern religions, Hinduism, Buddhism and others influenced by them have been looking upon different religions not as rivals but as friendly partners in nourishing the spiritual life of mankind. Their approach to religion has been essentially empirical.