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
  • 🦄🦄🦄@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.