Lord Ganesha appears in fuchsia flower form!
We have a new word for you today, skeptics! It’s pareidolia, and it means ascribing significance to something when it’s just, well, a random thing. Like a face in the clouds. This is an error in reasoning the superstitious often commit.
Speaking of random things with too much pressure on them, our new atheist friends at Nirmukta report that Lord Ganesha has made his first appearance of the new millennium, spurting out of sheer concrete into a four-foot amaranth flower. Replete with unusual (for an amaranth) Ganesh-like trunk, the avatar showed up to ease some ‘ailments’ experienced by a one Sam Lal of Queens.
They say God comes in many forms. I figure this has taken the form of a plant to come into my yard to bless me.
Wow. I had really only considered atheism from the perspective of being critical thinking versus Fundamentalist Christianity, as it primarily is here in North America. Imagine brandishing reason against the entire Hindu pantheon on a daily basis?
Hi,
You pretty much captured the essence of what we have to contend with: “Imagine brandishing reason against the entire Hindu pantheon”
Posted by Ajita on April 27th, 2009 9:53 pmIt’s pretty damn daunting. Sort of like dealing with a religion that claims that everything that came out of ancient Greece falls within its auspices. You guys keep up the good work!