Preaching outside Hindu temple India

except i'm not talking about the law, i'm talking about being civil.

there is no law against burning any book in america, yet it would be extremely rude to burn a hindu/muslim/taoist text in front of their faces, or stand outside of their religious buildings (churches/mosques/etc) and say that what they believe in is wrong.

i'm not sure why you are talking about prosecution and the ACLU. you're not going to get "prosecuted" after doing a thing like that. most likely you are going to get severely injured.

i don't think i have to tell anyone, that people often take their religion very seriously. even an atheist knows that.

Well, I have actually heard that a desert Prophet was described in one of our Puranas, as a man on a camel and with beard. I am not sure which Purana it was. Must have been some kind of prophesy, just like Ramayana and Mahabharata. People were big on Astrology in those days.

Then there is Gog and Magog.

Also, in the Bible's Revelation, there is a man with a sword on a white horse; quite similar to the description of the last Avatar of Lord Vishnu.

So, who knows? Maybe not the Koran, but there are other Islamic texts where there is a lot of spiritual stuff.

Anyway, any comments on what I added in my earlier post?

Anybody big on photography should know this.

afaik, all that debate was resolved after the first council of Nicaea (Nicene Creed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). Except for fringe groups like Jehovah's witness, nobody questions divinity of Christ.

Sir if you see the end of the video she was clearly asking "who is going to accept the truth today ?" or something of that sort....If you dont know the code words which the missionaries use here, it means "who is converting to xtianity today ?".

Even if she was not converting, temple premises is not the place for her to stand and say "there is one true god, Jesus" and that stuff. It unnecessarily vitiates communal tensions and being the minority, in case of riots it is the local xtians only who will face problems, not tourists like her who will ignite the flame and safely fly back to her home country.

OT...

That is not a correct analogy. There is a reason why Hinduism is called unorganized


Kaaba.

Zaid Hamid ?

Converted anybody, lately.

Technically, yeah you're right. But Islam claims that it is the true religion revealed to Adham (Adam, who btw is the first prophet of Islam). And that Xtianity and Judaism are distorted versions.

AFAIK the divinity of Jesus was democratically voted upon at the first council of Nicaea almost 300 years after he was supposedly killed.

You just googled and posted the first result.
The Kaaba is a cuboid.


Anyway, I also did some googling and found two possible solutions to your question.

1. List of works designed with the golden ratio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2. And this:

Miracle of Kaaba - Golden Ratio in Islam

This seems absurd to me, as Mecca is well above the equator and the ratio: (M to N.P.) / (M to S.P.) will be less than one. Maybe the author meant the inverse of the above ratio. Anyway, I haven't verified these claims. Some one should do it using maps or something. (When doing so, take note of the projection as different projections will alter you r results.)

Pmaitra, so what is the answer ?
And in any case, why is it called the Golden ratio or the divine ratio. What's so golden about it? Did a Goldsmith discover it ?

Well, you would have been mighty popular in late medieval Europe

Yes, golden ratio; the longer geodesic distance A is 1.618 times the shorter geodesic distance B.

This is true in two ways:

• A = Mecca to South Pole and B = Mecca to North Pole.
• A = Mecca to West until International Date Line and B = Mecca to the East until the international Date Line.

Karthic, kudos to you man, well done.

You have a point. Point taken.

Thanks for confirmation.
Oh, so a double golden ratio. The second point doesn't seem to have much significance as they are man-made lines.

Also, using the property of similar triangles on a flat map (although the earth is not flat), the diagonal as well.

So triple, but it is obvious anyway.

Well, the international date line is man made, but the largest separation between land masses, i.e. the Pacific Ocean is not man made.

I understand that, but the people listening seemed only idly curious.

I quite agree. She was annoying. In her mind, Memsahib was trying to save the souls of these little brown Hindoo people. I would have thrown a ripe fruit at her myself.

And I have been to a KKK rally in North Carolina. I still have the photos someplace.