Mr Green wrote:Come on, admit I got ya ... hahahah.
That made me laugh too ... Clearernow's veil dropped for just a moment.
The earliest evidence for religious activity in India dates back to the Harappan period 5,500 years Before Christ and the Vedic era to 1,500 Before Christ. However, I would agree that "Hinduism" is not a single religion and did not exist until the British invented it as one in order to differentiate Indians.
I'd also say that the image of the Dadis, or the ghost of Lekhraj Kirpalani, holding a huge 'golden penis' and spraying the audience is opens itself up more to Jungian analysis then mere Freudian. The symbolism of what is going on fits even a BK model.
That is not traditional Hindu Holi.
I also think you have the concept of "Defamation" wrong. You using the corrupted, inverted form from what the god of the BKs originally intended. "Defamation of the Father" is not an ex- or non-BK having a good joke at the BK leaders' expense, it is a BK or BK center-in-charge doing something that would bring a bad reputation by association to the BKWSU ... like having a secret affair, fiddling visas, money trouble, bad attitudes and so on.
What you are reflecting are changes in the BKWSU which have elected the BK gurus to the status of untouchable and unquestionable Holy Cows.One advantage I have on you, clearernow, is that I saw the BKs in a relative pure condition and knew most of the originals ... and how corrupt and materialistic and snobbish and insecure it has become. I saw the start of this decline, from whom and how many of these escapdes start to creep and become rituals within their congregations.
Most neo-BKs have no idea what it was like and how it has changed ... and it is not for the better.
Rather than "being normal" it is just about broadening the attraction of the religion and pandering to the mainly Hindu masses to make more money and gain more power. Why they need political power ... who knows. The BKs' social climbing is something to discuss on another topic ... *that* is why they don't like jokes to spread about their big uddered Holy Cows ... their naked Emperors' fat asses.
We're the kid shouting out ...
The BK Emperors Have No Clothes On and you are their courtesan with your snobbish remarks about "don't defame the Dadis".
Don't defame the Dadis? Why not. They may be sweet and act holy as best they can, so does the Pope, but they encourage ignorance and have allowed a corrupt and manipulative bureaucracy to build up around them.