{"id":6364,"date":"2011-09-20T15:19:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T15:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=6364"},"modified":"2011-09-20T15:20:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T15:20:35","slug":"next-up-yhwh-vs-godzilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/next-up-yhwh-vs-godzilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Up: YHWH vs. Godzilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hinduism is of course pantheistic. One of the most revered gods is\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/ganapati.perso.neuf.fr\/anglais\/indexe.html\">Ganesh<\/a>, the elephant-headed &#8220;Remover of Obstacles.&#8221; (And the god involved in the\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milkmiracle.com\/\">Milk Miracle<\/a> of a few years ago.)<\/p>\n<p>The other part of this story is the swastika symbol, which Hindus have been using as a good-luck charm for millenia. The word &#8220;swastika&#8221; is\u00a0 actually <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/magazine\/4183467.stm\">of Sanskrit origin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/8776050\/Hindu-fury-over-Australian-play-that-pits-god-Ganesh-against-Hitler.html\">read on<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Ganesh Versus the Third Reich<\/em> is yet to open at the Melbourne Festival, but news of its storyline has caused consternation among the\u00a0 Indian community.<\/p>\n<p>In the play, which has been described by its producers as rambunctious fable brimming with humour, the elephant-headed Hindu god rampages through Germany on\u00a0a quest to reclaim the ancient Hindu symbol of goodwill from the Nazis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a long-time fan of the great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1F7E7lAp-hM\">Barry Humphries<\/a>, I thought I had a handle on Australian humor. Now I&#8217;m not so sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hinduism is of course pantheistic. One of the most revered gods is\u00a0 Ganesh, the elephant-headed &#8220;Remover of Obstacles.&#8221; (And the god involved in the\u00a0 Milk Miracle of a few years ago.) The other part of this story is the swastika &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/next-up-yhwh-vs-godzilla\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[711,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6364"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6368,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364\/revisions\/6368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}