still makes them hostile when their beliefs are questioned?
A Buddhist, a non Buddhist, a Christian, a Muslim, a Jew or whatever you call yourself, people get attached to belief systems and view. If you are not an Arahat then this is the natural reaction of any worldly person. If you challenge their view them they get offended or hostile.
Leaving a Buddhism aside link about discussing politics, sports, or any other topic these tendencies persist.
Just because you are a Buddhist you cannot get over these tendencies. To get over the you have to do Vipassanā and achieve the penetrating wisdom to overcome these tendencies. A person with no deep wisdom developed is in most cases subjected to perversions which can manifest as hostility. Someone who has not overcome these tendencies even they call the a Buddhism will have these tendencies.
More on perversion see: Vipallasa Sutta
I would like to know what religion is real.
A religion you can verify there and now can be considered a real religion. Buddhism have meditation systems whereby you can ascertain the theory is infact real at an experiential level. When you verify something at the experiential level, you do not have to just believe something or have faith on something which you cannot verify.
But all of them seems to contradict each other and there is no basis for their beliefs.
There will be may contradicting view. Brahmajāla Sutta does mentions many forms of such conflicting religions view and their origin.
Its not like my community is small either but there are a lot of us who drive fast cars and have a lot of fun.
Enjoying life is not an issue. The issue arises when things do not go your way. They you may get emotional or stressed. This is the issue. I a sure you and your community would have felt some emotions of the other at some point of time.
Buddhism aims to make you mind balanced through wisdom so you do not lose the balance of your mind when things do not go your way.
In my thinking religion is a mind control virus. So, all this talk about going to hell and heaven is based on being controlled and the virus talking.
Some religions promise reward in heaven and damnation in hell or punishment as means to control people and beliefs. Buddhism does not do that. It just shows the repercussions of actions you take but it is up to you to burn your hand or not. Also this is not limited to belief but can be verified through meditation.
I mean which hell
Buddhism has multiple hells. One hell we can see are the animals. Some animals hunt others. So the hunted live in fear and when hunted they die in pain. There is also decies and famines which affect them. This is considered one form of hellish existence.
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