Originally posted by: gauri_2
A freind of Mods asked some derogatory questions regarding a hindu diety. The mod responded to those questions. Members' feelings were hurt and both the person asking the question and his mod friend were asked to edit their posts. Even another mod was requested to look in to the matter. But the mods refused to take any action and this situation has come to this point now!!!
Please think about fixing the system first so that members do not lose their trust to begin with.
Hi Gauri,
How are you? I was out of town for the weekend and after coming back I found your thread. Thank you for the honor.
OK, about the Ganesh issue. Light hearted things should be taken light heartedly. There are many jokes that involves many great people of the world. Does that mean we disrespect them when we enjoy those jokes. Jay Leno cracks jokes on many bigshots every day. Does he mean to insult them. I am a Hindu, and also believe in God. I personally did not find anything very offensive about that post. Again, now you will say that it concerns my friends, so I did not see anything wrong.
The Hindu religion is the most lenient religion in the history of this world. Lot of times you will find many jokes circulating around about hindu Gods and Goddesses, but we don't take them to heart as all the respect and devotion is within us and a small joke or light hearted comment doesn't hurt most of us.
The hindu religion is so tolerent that even today M.F. Hussain roams around freely after painting countless numbers of Hindu Gods and Goddesses nude and in most objectionable and compromising positions. Why don't we raise our voices then? What happens to us then? Why do we keep quite? Why does people like Mohini keep quite then. Did she ever write anything to any newspaper against this? NO.
In your post you say that the members were feeling hurt. Wasn't Bhaskar feeling hurt when all the people pounced on him for something absolutely fake? Please don't talk about feelings here. I personally give more importance to the feelings of a person whom I know for 1 year than a sculptured idol. Again that's my personal opinion.