RE: Damned Hindus
May 2, 2015 at 1:08 pm
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2015 at 10:52 pm by Tiberius.
Edit Reason: Fixed quote.
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Quote:Yogi was certain the Hindu goddess of death and destruction had saved him and the many others who were praying in the 17th century temple when the Earth heaved and the red bricks of its walls began crashing down in the magnitude-7.8 quake on April 25. Those less fortunate were unlucky, the yellow-robed holy man said, or maybe even undeserving. Perhaps they did not pray enough, or did not revere their sacred cattle. Maybe they embraced Western cultures and lost their own traditions.
Sounds a lot like the christians I know. Why is it that religious people love to point fingers at others for causing a natural disaster? It was either natural or it was an evil god in the sky, it wasn't your atheist neighbor jumping up and down causing the earth to shake.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-