The Hindu Temple was a very interesting building. It had many decorations and statues to honor the many manifestations of God. I think this idea was the most interesting thing to me. I always thought that Hindus worshiped many gods. The Hindu religion is more similiar to the three previous religions we have studied than I thought. They all worship one God. It seems that they all worship the same God. The different religions just have different ways of doing this.
I thought the Hindu Temple building was closest to the Basilica. They both had alot statues and pictures. They were both decorated elaborately. I thought this was interesting becasue Christians do not believe in worshiping idols and they just have statues and pictures as more of reminders, while it seemed that the Hindus seemed to worship the actual statues.
The openess of the Hindu Temple also suprised me. The only place the seemed to be off limits was the immediate area around the statues of the gods they worshiped. Any person could wonder around the temple as they please. The openess of the religious ceremonies also surprised me. We were able to participate in the ceremonies even though we knew little of what was happening.
Wearing no shows was also interesting. I find it interesting that wearing no shows to a Christian Church would be disrespectful. This is just like how covering your head is a sign of respect to God in a synanagogue, but in a church this also would be highly disrespectful. This just shows how different culturals have different ideas of what respectful is. It makes me wonder what God views as disrespectful.
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