£16m Hindu temple opens in Wembley

[Welsh cake]

[Minimalist]

All religions are equally asinine.

I've seem some fantastic mosques as well as some spectacular cathedrals and none of it disguises the fact that rich priests build monuments to their bullshit to overawe the dolts who "believe."

[bozo]

My opinion is that the severely deluded must like ostentation.
Hope none of them are spending my taxes on the monstrosities!

[Caecilian]

Personally, I like hindu architecture, even though it has a tendency to be over-busy and/or gaudy. The fact that the buildings are religious is neither here nor there for me. I can equally enjoy looking at catholic cathedral, ancient greek temples, and muslim mosques.

Some of my favourite hindu buildings.

The Lakshmi temple near Hassan, Karnataka:



The Brihadeswara in Tanjore, Tamil Nadu:



The rock-cut temples of Ellora, Maharashtra:



None of these has been built recently, of course.

[leo-rcc]

I agree, I like Hindu and Buddhist temples, I can admire the details for ages.

[Paul the Human]

Well, when you have to please over 330,000 deities... you've got to make some pretty fancy temples.

[bozo]

Temples and the like being nice to look at is all well and good, but I still will call them monstrous because of what they are about.
Put another way, if execution and torture were being carried out in them, does that make a difference to their appeal? I think it does. Sort of guilt by association.

[Caecilian]

Temples and the like being nice to look at is all well and good, but I still will call them monstrous because of what they are about.
Put another way, if execution and torture were being carried out in them, does that make a difference to their appeal? I think it does. Sort of guilt by association.

Lets look at it this way. The Kremlin in Moscow is a spectacularly beautiful group of buildings:



But to say that bad things have happened in the Kremlin would be a very big understatement. Mass murder has been plotted within the Kremlin walls repeatedly.

But its still really pretty, at least I think it is. I love Byzantine and old Russian architecture, and old Russian architecture doesn't come any better than this. So I guess I don't buy into guilt by association.

[WingedFoe]

Personally, I don't care what the religious do with their money... it's their money. They can build a solid-gold cathedral for all I care, As long as they don't use my tax money to fund it. I might, however, point out their hypocrisy: teaching their followers to give to the poor while they spend money so frivolously.

[Disinter]

I admire the architecture and precision of this design rather deeply, however this bullshit needs to stop in the name of religion. Then again, I've long since gotten over most of mankind's general stupidity....I'm rather "meh" towards shit like this now....