Religious Craziness: To what extent it goes in your country?

I'm aware of the religious fervour in India from the news and from movies like Slumdog Millionaire. I thought it must be a scary place to live. When I went to India in 2001, there was a strike at one of the factories there and the bus driver had to detour to another route. It was scary. In my country, we have a little tolerance with people from other religions but at times there are clashes especially among those who mix religion with politics. I myself don't ever get involve in all this extreme religious groups. In our religion we are taught to be tolerant of people from other religions.

I couldn't imagine having to go through such a way of living; shopping only from the people within your beliefs and such, but I respect all religions. That is why I keep it to myself. If I want to practice it or talk about it, I will attend a house of worship within my beliefs. Where I reside, people do not shed too much of their beliefs on other people, unless you're willing to talk with them about it, you're at their residence or you've invited them in your home.

For all the bad mouthing that goes on about the US, there maybe isolated incidents of this kind of thing happening but overall the US does not have this happen. If so, in the workplace, people will get lawyers can sue.

I live in India. so i can say with certainty that its better than any other nation in the world. there were few disturbing instances, but that was more of a motivated and stage managed events just to get international attention.

If ur living in India, i dont think the situation is as bad as u have summerised. I see religion and caste as issues only when it comes to marriages. Of course plenty of organisations based on caste affiliations have sprouted up. The very thought of people being discriminated based on caste and religion is nauseating..thx

Religion has been the cause of every war in our worlds history... Is that correct? I think the basic principals of most religions are mainly good but people sure can get crazy about there ideals. Not here where I live so much. People have there ideas and morals and tend to live by them but do not expect others to do the same.

"1. Shopping only from the shops belonging to the person in the same religion" I suppose this happens here in cities with large populations and ethnic neighborhoods, but it is probably more just supporting local business rather than religious preference. 2. Employing people in a company only if they belong to a particular religion" this would be absolutely ILEGAL here in the u.s. it would be considered discrimination and is absolutely against the law 3. Offering a higher salary for the same post to a persron belonging to a particular religion. Again, this would be highly ilegal here under discrimination basis We have a huge diverse number of religions here in the 'u.S. It is predominantly christian, but we have a huge Muslum population as well as a very large jewish population. We also have a good number of pagan faiths here and then there are still a number of very active native american religions still being practiced. We also have a much more secular population of atheists or even people of faith who are just not very deeply religious. Our government is forbidden by our constitution from declaring a national religion or interfering with the exersise of one's religion. It is also against state and federal laws to discriminate based on one's religion.

that's pity and horrible . in china ,i think,on the contrary , majority of people lack interest in religion or are not so crazy about it . chances are that people pay much attention to making money and when they got rich and old as well ,they become to believe in religion ,most of buddha. as for the ethnic minority ,they are gradually abondaning their religion ,in my point of view,to involve themselves into the modernization. in short , religion isn't the first and foremost part of chinese people's life ,sometimes religion falls to be the tool of psychological comfort