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1n As usual the HINDU right is outraging over the wrong things, the wrong way. It’s his FoE to compare RamLeela to Child Porn. However it shows what a shallow, policy clueless twat he is, which is what he should be criticised for given his delusions of intellect. Here’s why....
2n Ram Leela is like the nativity play & a social event. It’s a re-enactment of of an ancient event purely for recreational and symbolic purposes. Indeed of it is socially harmful, so is every play of the 3 magi visiting the infant Jesus in Bethlehem for the nativity scene.....
3n Child porn is a different ballgame all together with different consequences. First is that it is an actual physical sexual assault, second is that it has a traumatic impact on the victims psychology; third there is bodily harm inflicted; fourth even here there is scientific
4n disagreeing as to what constitutes the age of consent and difference in age of abuser and victim. These are highly subjective. At best Prakash’s comment show him to be a cheap half penny shock-jock. At worst they reveal him to be a an idiot clueless about important social ...
5n issues, legal nuances and the myriad implications of abuse versus superstition versus celebrations & re-enactments. I suspect it’s a bit of both, given a failing career restricted to B movies and a substandard education. So by all means criticise him, but at least be coherent
6n for example Christian theology is full of absurd nonsense on the holy communion which represents the body and blood of Christ. Some believe it is transubstantiation other churches that it is consubstantiation. However the underlying ceremonial is at some level cannibalism...
7n In Bernardo de Sahagun’s “conquest of Mexico” for example he explains in horror how the Maya saw similarities in the centrality of blood & ritual human sacrifice in both religions. However for them crucifixion was a new form of human sacrifice and they proceeded to crucify...
8n children as a new sacrificial “fad”. In that sense RamLeela stories haven’t led to a single fatality of someone stabbing or killing a pretend Ravana, but the crucifixion story definitely led to the painful sacrifice of at least a few Maya children. But then I suppose
9n Prakash Raj has never heard of Conquistadors, Mayas, Aztecs, Bernardo or indeed MesoAmerica, Transubstantiation or Consubstantiation... he’s too illiterate to have
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