Saturday, January 10, 2009

Thought For The Day





Walking down Orchard Road during the holiday, in a mostly Buddist country, God is present. This was on the side of a vast building near a shopping center for all the world to see - and for me to take a picture of. An amazing sight if you ask me.

The Singapore census includes detailed data on religion and ethnicity, and is taken on a ten-year basis. Figures for religion in the year 2000 are:

Buddhism - 42.5%
No religion - 14.8%
Christianity - 14.6%
Islam - 13.9%
Taoism - 8.5%
Hinduism - 4%
Other religions - 1.6%

The above figures refer to the resident population only, and do not include the non-resident population. (Singapore authorities do not release figures for the non-resident population which accounted for 18.33% of Singapore's population in 2005.

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