Texas gets a huge statute of the Hindu deity Hanuman. Christians go ballistic.

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CHRISTIAN zealots are constantly on the look-out for things that will set their blood aboil, so when in mid-August a 90ft statue of Hanuman appeared at Sugar Land’s Sri Ashtalakshmi Temple all hell broke loose on social media.

The half-human, half-monkey god is considered by Hindus as an immortal being known for his devotion to the Hindu god Rama and virtues like self-control.

To outraged Christians the “Statue of Union” — the third tallest in the US — is “demonic”

“This is a Hindu statue they just built in TX. I rebuke this demonic filth in the mighty name of Jesus Christ,” @itsmorganariel, a self-described “Christian activist,” wrote while sharing a video on X.

And someone identifying himself a “Christian nationalist” wrote on X:

In Texas there is a 90 ft statue of Hanuman, a Hindu monkey god. What is the United States anymore? A nation with no culture, now that the enrichers are prominent in the census.

When, one must ask, did the US ever enjoy a period of culture? A quote frequently used is

Americans are the only race which passed directly from barbarism to decadence without knowing civilisation.

Right-wing “humour-based news” website Not the Bee published an article on the statute that includes a warning about sparking:

The wrath of the One True God by building massive demonic idols everywhere.

Some other conservative X users shared racist suggestions that the statue resembled police murder victim George Floyd, who was Black.

However, some have defended the statue and lashed out at critics complaining about the fact that a private organisation chose to install the figure on its own land.

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5 responses to “Texas gets a huge statute of the Hindu deity Hanuman. Christians go ballistic.”

  1. I am often tempted to take an angle-grinder to the abomination-of-the-north in Gateshaead.

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  2. It looks better than the man nailed to a bit of wood Christstains usually prefer.

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    1. I agree, however, it remains a blot-on-the-landscape as well as a blight on my conception of art.

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  3. Next protests: the deification of four presidents, including two non-Christians, at Mount Rushmore on land stolen in breach of treaty from its rightful owners, then a personification of liberty in New York harbour and the further glorification of one of the Mount Rushmore presidents in Washington, DC?

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  4. Their land, their statue, their business, but why, if it has been “rebuked in the mighty name of Jesus Christ” is it still standing?

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