Farmer Vesta Mandloi was surprised to learn recently that one of the "stone balls" his family had been worshipping for generations has turned out to be the fossilised egg of a giant dinosaur that lived in central India's Narmada valley millions of years ago. Like Mandloi, many farmers of Padlya village in Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district have been worshipping these roughly palm-sized balls known locally as Kankar Bhairav or stone Shiva. The balls lie in small clusters often at the root of a fig tr
  • Vytle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    9 months ago

    This is actually fucking disgusting. Your really shitting on the culture of a people you clearly don’t understand, because you want to losely tie it into the fact that you (think) your better than the average person simply because you don’t follow a religion. Believe what you want, and portray yourself how you want, but don’t fucking use indigenous cultures as stepping stones to point out your beliefs. Go back to Reddit with this shit, man.

    • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.deEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Religion is an idea and ideas don’t inherently deserve respect. Anyone walking over anything to gain some sort of protection is ridiculous and should be treated as such. It is ok if you feel different but it’s worriesome that you are directly attacking others like that.

      • Vytle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        9 months ago

        The culture of other people, and by proxy their religion, does deserve respect. We are talking about tradition that has been passed from generation upon generation. This inheritely demands respect, assuming your not a redditor who sees themselves as above everyone else.

        • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.deEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          “I am right and if you disagree you belong to [group of people I don’t like].”

          Yikes, spoken like a true religious person.

          • Vytle@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            9 months ago

            I’m not religious, I just have basic fucking empathy. Great strawman BTW.

            • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.deEnglish
              1·
              9 months ago

              This inheritely demands respect, assuming your not a redditor who sees themselves as above everyone else.

              Great strawman BTW.

              Did you really not get that lol

              • Vytle@lemmy.worldEnglish
                11·
                9 months ago

                You are reducing my point of “cultures inheritely demand respect for its generational perseverance” down to “I am right” You either can’t think of a valid argument against my point, or you somehow gained enough compassion to not want to argue that other people’s culture is not inheritely respectable.

                • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.deEnglish
                  1·
                  9 months ago

                  argue that other people’s culture is not inheritely respectable.

                  I don’t need to argue facts. But you go ahead and have fun with that if you want.