As long as Christmas is still a legal holiday in America, I have no problem with this whatsoever.

I mean, ideally, I'd like to see NO religious holidays as legal holidays (since we are a secular nation) but if we're going to celebrate Christmas, might as well let a predominantly Hindu community celebrate Diwali!

Cool beans, brah(man).

"New Jersey is an epicenter for Hindu activity."

So when do we get an Indian version of Jersey Shore?

shivashakti: As long as Christmas is still a legal holiday in America, I have no problem with this whatsoever.

I mean, ideally, I'd like to see NO religious holidays as legal holidays (since we are a secular nation) but if we're going to celebrate Christmas, might as well let a predominantly Hindu community celebrate Diwali!

Or, let's go the other way. Cut down summer vacation a bit, and give them every major religious holiday off. Including Ramendan.

What fascinates me, as a true Christian, is how the Vedas are treated as anything more than fairy tales.

In the Judeo-Christian faith, the holy books are predominantly historical, but the Vedic works are anything but. The closest analog I can think is how Scientology has taken root without any real basis in anything but the demented rantings of a third-rate science fiction author.

That said, more power to the Canadians for not being so close-minded as to deny these people their opportunity to worship as they see fit.

RatMaster999: shivashakti: As long as Christmas is still a legal holiday in America, I have no problem with this whatsoever.

I mean, ideally, I'd like to see NO religious holidays as legal holidays (since we are a secular nation) but if we're going to celebrate Christmas, might as well let a predominantly Hindu community celebrate Diwali!

Or, let's go the other way. Cut down summer vacation a bit, and give them every major religious holiday off. Including Ramendan.

Is that the official holiday for the FSM?

Lydia_C: RatMaster999: shivashakti: As long as Christmas is still a legal holiday in America, I have no problem with this whatsoever.

I mean, ideally, I'd like to see NO religious holidays as legal holidays (since we are a secular nation) but if we're going to celebrate Christmas, might as well let a predominantly Hindu community celebrate Diwali!

Or, let's go the other way. Cut down summer vacation a bit, and give them every major religious holiday off. Including Ramendan.

Is that the official holiday for the FSM?

It's a fast where all you get to eat is Japanese noodles.

AverageAmericanGuy: What fascinates me, as a true Christian, is how the Vedas are treated as anything more than fairy tales.

Are you serious?

As a person living in Plainsboro (see last paragraph of article), I would like to confirm that yes, I am the only white person for miles.

/It's great if you like Indian buffets

AverageAmericanGuy: What fascinates me, as a true Christian, is how the Vedas are treated as anything more than fairy tales.

In the Judeo-Christian faith, the holy books are predominantly historical, but the Vedic works are anything but. The closest analog I can think is how Scientology has taken root without any real basis in anything but the demented rantings of a third-rate science fiction author.

That said, more power to the Canadians for not being so close-minded as to deny these people their opportunity to worship as they see fit.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

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phrawgh: AverageAmericanGuy: What fascinates me, as a true Christian, is how the Vedas are treated as anything more than fairy tales.

Are you serious?

Maybe it's a lack of understanding of Hinduism on my part, but isn't their religion based on the Vedic texts? The one with multi-armed gods and blue incarnations of gods?

AverageAmericanGuy: phrawgh: AverageAmericanGuy: What fascinates me, as a true Christian, is how the Vedas are treated as anything more than fairy tales.

Are you serious?

Maybe it's a lack of understanding of Hinduism on my part, but isn't their religion based on the Vedic texts? The one with multi-armed gods and blue incarnations of gods?

Which you are saying makes their religion less believable than yours? Or am I missing something?

Dead for Tax Reasons: By the many arms of vishnu

i think you will fit right in

Aaaaaand.. we're moving straight back into the middle ages. Where one of the reasons that it was such a 'stand-still' period was because of the mandated celebration of some saint or other every other day.

phrawgh: AverageAmericanGuy: phrawgh: AverageAmericanGuy: What fascinates me, as a true Christian, is how the Vedas are treated as anything more than fairy tales.

Are you serious?

Maybe it's a lack of understanding of Hinduism on my part, but isn't their religion based on the Vedic texts? The one with multi-armed gods and blue incarnations of gods?

Which you are saying makes their religion less believable than yours? Or am I missing something?

Mine are based on historical texts or things that actually happened.

Do you believe that F=ma? or that the sum of the squares of the sides of a triangle is equal to the square of its hypotenuse? (I hope you do, these are pretty basic things)

It is better to believe in what is true than what is fabrication. A book about blue avatars and elephant-headed, many-armed gods is certainly a fabrication. A Book which describes the plight of Jews in Egypt and their eventual escape and settling in Canaan is something concrete and verifiable.

the next thing we will have is nationality pride parades choking up our highways...move out of the way Chi Walla!

From the comments:

"See this is what happens when you give them an inch, they take a mile.
Let them go back to their own country and take as many days off as they ____ well please. You get sick and tired of this crap they pull. "

OMG! creeping Shariah Krishna law takin' over 'Merica! I wants my country back!

AverageAmericanGuy,



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AverageAmericanGuy: That said, more power to the Canadians for not being so close-minded as to deny these people their opportunity to worship as they see fit.

Now I know to you Southerners, that all of the North is alike, but New Jersey is still in the US. We don't want your trash up here.

>saviour

Superfluous vowel detected, aborting article launch.

AverageAmericanGuy: A book about blue avatars and elephant-headed, many-armed gods is certainly a fabrication

"And I stood on the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads the name of blasphemy." (Revelation 13:1)

Drannon: AverageAmericanGuy,
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For the record, yes, I also believe humanity is fallen and sinful and needs to be forgiven and reunited with our Creator. That's why we're all so miserable and stare at boxes all day and avoid thinking too much. It's all part of the evil force's plan to keep us from realizing the truth. But the Creator loves us anyway and keeps asking us to come back.

/100% serious

Sgt. Pepper: AverageAmericanGuy: A book about blue avatars and elephant-headed, many-armed gods is certainly a fabrication

"And I stood on the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads the name of blasphemy." (Revelation 13:1)

That is, of course, a vision that the apostle had. It is meant to be an allusion, not a real beast rising out of the sea.

Meisaims: Drannon: AverageAmericanGuy,
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For the record, yes, I also believe humanity is fallen and sinful and needs to be forgiven and reunited with our Creator. That's why we're all so miserable and stare at boxes all day and avoid thinking too much. It's all part of the evil force's plan to keep us from realizing the truth. But the Creator loves us anyway and keeps asking us to come back.

/100% serious

Then please go and reunite with your creator and leave the rest of us sane folk alone.

Meisaims: Drannon: AverageAmericanGuy,
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For the record, yes, I also believe humanity is fallen and sinful and needs to be forgiven and reunited with our Creator. That's why we're all so miserable and stare at boxes all day and avoid thinking too much. It's all part of the evil force's plan to keep us from realizing the truth. But the Creator loves us anyway and keeps asking us to come back.

/100% serious

Go for it. I have no problems with your beliefs. You are more than welcome to believe whatever you want. My problem is only with saying that your set of beliefs are inherently more 'believable' than Hinduism or Islam or Judaism, or whatever.

BurnShrike: AverageAmericanGuy: That said, more power to the Canadians for not being so close-minded as to deny these people their opportunity to worship as they see fit.

Now I know to you Southerners, that all of the North is alike, but New Jersey is still in the US. We don't want your trash up here.

This.

I have been to many of the states; California, Florida, Iowa, New York, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Vermont, among many others. But the only foreign country I have ever been to is Alabama.

"For the record, yes, I also believe humanity is fallen and sinful and needs to be forgiven and reunited with our Creator."

So you want everyone dead.

AverageAmericanGuy: Sgt. Pepper: AverageAmericanGuy: A book about blue avatars and elephant-headed, many-armed gods is certainly a fabrication

"And I stood on the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads the name of blasphemy." (Revelation 13:1)

That is, of course, a vision that the apostle had. It is meant to be an allusion, not a real beast rising out of the sea.

Ah, Allusions. Love them.

"Your Majesty is like a stream of bat's piss": Pythons 18.01.1973

HotIgneous Intruder: "For the record, yes, I also believe humanity is fallen and sinful and needs to be forgiven and reunited with our Creator."

So you want everyone dead.

They'll all be dead whether I want them to be or not.

Actually the reuniting can start now! Join today! :)

This could get hari.

BurnShrike: Meisaims: Drannon: AverageAmericanGuy,
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For the record, yes, I also believe humanity is fallen and sinful and needs to be forgiven and reunited with our Creator. That's why we're all so miserable and stare at boxes all day and avoid thinking too much. It's all part of the evil force's plan to keep us from realizing the truth. But the Creator loves us anyway and keeps asking us to come back.

/100% serious

Then please go and reunite with your creator and leave the rest of us sane folk alone.

Don't worry, I will. Like all the other Christians, I'm usually too cowardly to speak up for fear of derision. It's a fault we have. I am truly sorry for my selfishness.

/Sane? HERE?

Can I get off on Dimwitty?

Darth_Lukecash: Lionel Mandrake: Satanic!!1!

Every Real American knows that there are only two religions: Protestantism and Satanism.

Actually, they are the same thing. Both believe in god and Satan.

Um, No. Satanists do not believe in God, and don't really believe in Satan. The part of their belief system that covers that amounts to basically trolling for power: people are scared of Satan, so let's use that fear against them.

If anything, they believe in self-empowerment by rejecting the cultural mores of society and abandoning the ideas of good and evil as they are commonly understood.

Meisaims: That's why we're all so miserable and stare at boxes all day

The other day I had a nice motorcycle ride and nailed my Chinese mistress.

/speak for miserable self

I shake the dust off my sandals and take my leave of this thread.

Sybarite: You do know that the story of the Exodus is a complete fabrication with no support in the archaeological record, right?

Not to mention the fact that the cultural activity of circumcision came about because it was a sensible thing for desert-dwellers (according to its inventors, the Egyptians and Nubians, who influenced the immediate areas), and the religious excuse only came about when the Greeks put pressure on the Syrians, telling them to stop the practice.

Hairy Fishnuts?