<!--QuoteBegin-ashyam+Dec 14 2007, 07:47 AM-->QUOTE(ashyam @ Dec 14 2007, 07:47 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-prem+Dec 14 2007, 06:54 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(prem @ Dec 14 2007, 06:54 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Christopher Hitchens
...Krishna was born of the virgin Devaka,...<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>Somebody is spreading this false rumour.</b> Krishna was eighth son of Vasudeva and Devaki.
[right][snapback]76144[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->"Somebody is spreading this false rumour. (of Krishna being born of a virgin)"
Yes, western 'scholarship' like that of "Acharya S" and similar.
They see how Mithra and some other traditions prove their point, but then they invent the further dots they require to draw the straight line they'd always wanted to draw. Then they write how Hindoos who say otherwise just don't know how our Krishna's birthday was "actually" on the 25th of December like that of Mithra and how our Devaki "was in fact a virgin too". While western 'scholar' knows. Poor, confused Hindoos with our long-held and long-transmitted traditions (like GokulAshtami), what do we know. And we must remember: "What western 'scholar' says is always right." (And even when it's pseudoscholarship.)
...Krishna was born of the virgin Devaka,...<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>Somebody is spreading this false rumour.</b> Krishna was eighth son of Vasudeva and Devaki.
[right][snapback]76144[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->"Somebody is spreading this false rumour. (of Krishna being born of a virgin)"
Yes, western 'scholarship' like that of "Acharya S" and similar.
They see how Mithra and some other traditions prove their point, but then they invent the further dots they require to draw the straight line they'd always wanted to draw. Then they write how Hindoos who say otherwise just don't know how our Krishna's birthday was "actually" on the 25th of December like that of Mithra and how our Devaki "was in fact a virgin too". While western 'scholar' knows. Poor, confused Hindoos with our long-held and long-transmitted traditions (like GokulAshtami), what do we know. And we must remember: "What western 'scholar' says is always right." (And even when it's pseudoscholarship.)