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Originally Posted by parallaxicality
Besides the ludicrous Apu-accents
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That, although at least only momentary, was bad; no argument there from me.
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they snidely made references to such old gods as Zeus and Thor, forgetting, perhaps, that Zeus and Thor are in fact manefestations of the same Indo-European religion still worshipped, under different names, in India.
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Since their whole point was that it WAS the same primitive attitude, I don't understand how you could think they were forgetting the similarity. They couldn't have used an analogy without being aware of the two things' analogousness... analogosity... analoguity...
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It was quite clear that these people knew nothing about Hinduism and were dissing something because they were unfamiliar with it.
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What made either of those two things "clear"? Their only comments about the religion were on the subject of the event in the news story itself, so that was the only thing they could have been right or wrong about; are you saying the news item was inaccurate and the goat sacrifice didn't happen? And on the reason they "dissed" it, no, they were pretty specific about the dissworthy aspects of the story being the bad logic behind the idea, and the superstition's juxtaposition with modern science in the same environment where people should be expected to be more rational.
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If, for instance, a Catholic priest had offered a bennediction for a safe flight, I doubt it would have made the news at all, nor would they have found anything wrong with it.
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In fact, such things have made news, not only more often but also with more uproar about how "offensive" it is when Christianity does it.