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<blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 8208694" data-attributes="member: 3457"><p>I wasn't. I was pointing out that religion has always been fodder for fiction and the weird need some feel to be offended for others of other religions or cultures, especially when many of D&D's portrayals of these things are sourced in those cultures themselves. I was trying to understand why it was offensive with Indian/Hindu entities vs Babylonian entities because real world religions. A study will show that modern Hinduism has more in common with Theosophical tropes than traditional Hinduism, so much so that there are "traditional Hindus" trying to reclaim the religion from Theosophical ideas. One example is the chakra system where it has generally been accepted that they are certain, specific colors but no one can source these colors any farther back than the late 19th century. Yoga as well isn't an ancient practice as many believe and most of the well respected books on Hinduism were often written by white men in America and Europe. Particularly one name William Walker Adkinson who wrote on various Hindu sounding pseudonyms and became a popular source in the east & west on Hindu practices. Even Christianity is a modern religion in the form that we know it, dispensationalism of the fundamentalists and the prosperity gospels of the evangelists being either mid 19th century creations in the form of dispensationalism and prosperity gospel being a fusion of Christianity, New Thought (also sourced to Atkinson through the Kybalion) and wealth (now known as MLM) generating systems of the late 19th and early 20th century.</p><p></p><p>Basically I was saying it's ok to use ANY religion as long as it's respectful and not for the sake of a cheap villain or joke but not to be selective because while YOU may not think there are people not following those gods, you would be very wrong and if you are afraid to offend one, you should extend that to all gods because you should not insult Osiris lest you also insult Shiva in another form.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="teitan, post: 8208694, member: 3457"] I wasn't. I was pointing out that religion has always been fodder for fiction and the weird need some feel to be offended for others of other religions or cultures, especially when many of D&D's portrayals of these things are sourced in those cultures themselves. I was trying to understand why it was offensive with Indian/Hindu entities vs Babylonian entities because real world religions. A study will show that modern Hinduism has more in common with Theosophical tropes than traditional Hinduism, so much so that there are "traditional Hindus" trying to reclaim the religion from Theosophical ideas. One example is the chakra system where it has generally been accepted that they are certain, specific colors but no one can source these colors any farther back than the late 19th century. Yoga as well isn't an ancient practice as many believe and most of the well respected books on Hinduism were often written by white men in America and Europe. Particularly one name William Walker Adkinson who wrote on various Hindu sounding pseudonyms and became a popular source in the east & west on Hindu practices. Even Christianity is a modern religion in the form that we know it, dispensationalism of the fundamentalists and the prosperity gospels of the evangelists being either mid 19th century creations in the form of dispensationalism and prosperity gospel being a fusion of Christianity, New Thought (also sourced to Atkinson through the Kybalion) and wealth (now known as MLM) generating systems of the late 19th and early 20th century. Basically I was saying it's ok to use ANY religion as long as it's respectful and not for the sake of a cheap villain or joke but not to be selective because while YOU may not think there are people not following those gods, you would be very wrong and if you are afraid to offend one, you should extend that to all gods because you should not insult Osiris lest you also insult Shiva in another form. [/QUOTE]
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