(October 15, 2014 at 12:57 pm)genkaus Wrote: I don't need to put up a case - I just need to destroy yours. And you are making it too easy.
You are absolutely ridiculous.
The only sub-case that you put up was a study that said that Varanasi is not older than 4000 years.
What this study didn't tell you is the fact that under that city it is likely that there is an other city even older.
Your small vision may let you think that a place like Varanasi is similar to the cities in north America or Australia where the local civilization never was able to build cities so what you see these days in NY or LA is a single layer of build up and under this layer there is nothing else.
Different cultures build up different things so you can not really compare Varanasi with NY or LA.
The connection among Shiva, the svastika, the sanskrit language and the mantra is there, they all go hand in hand.
You make a statement that is all a religious thing but Shiva never teach religion.
Religions came later as a distortion of spirituality but what would you know about it.