Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.

[DodosAreDead]

"I've got know (hehe) idea who he really is or what he did, but look, I wearing my St. Christopher medal because I'm a christian." 

Well, that's not true in Hinduism. There's no one supreme hindu god. At least, the holy trinity, ones that are perhaps most famous, like Brahma, Shiva, Vishnu, etc, are barely mentioned in actual worshipping. Different Hindus worship, prioritize, and believe in different gods, and most of them do know what (s)he did, albeit in story form. 

Your teacher was a grade a bullshitter.  Of course hindus worship idols, it's one of the primary effects of all religions the worship of idols.  And ideals are only ever held for as long as the leadership considered it expedient.

I dunno if Wololwut will see this since he apparently has me on ignore, but I gotta say hindus definitely worship ideals more than idols, at least in the part of India I know about. Many festivals don't even have physical idols present to be worshipped, and no Hindu is like the other. Everyone gives importance to those gods and figures who they like, and often that is based on what ideals they showed in the stories we all hear about these gods and figures as kids. These ideals have been held for many hundreds of years... Hinduism is an old religion and it hasn't changed dramatically as far as I, and more importantly history textbooks, can tell.