GoodbyeDave
Well-Known Member
What do people think about this?
Clashes Blocking Women From Temple in India Bring Over 2,000 Arrests
I'm not happy with the idea that a court, or even a constitution, should be regulating religious practices. But is the temple's ban justified? On what is it based?
It strikes me that there is something missing in Hinduism today (unless I'm just ignorant, which is entirely possible) — a mechanism for consulting gods about what they want us to do. India used to have oracles, as we did in ancient Greece, but they seem to have died out. And does no-one practice divination, or has it been displaced by the ubiquity of astrology?
Clashes Blocking Women From Temple in India Bring Over 2,000 Arrests
I'm not happy with the idea that a court, or even a constitution, should be regulating religious practices. But is the temple's ban justified? On what is it based?
It strikes me that there is something missing in Hinduism today (unless I'm just ignorant, which is entirely possible) — a mechanism for consulting gods about what they want us to do. India used to have oracles, as we did in ancient Greece, but they seem to have died out. And does no-one practice divination, or has it been displaced by the ubiquity of astrology?