@eramk0920@NewsAlgebraIND Dimaag se nalaayak agar education minister resign bhi karde tho protest nahi rukega yeh distraction hain, punjab farmers kyun aa rahe hain delhi
@gowtham15284871@GODzillAASTAN It's not enough to have temples respect and devotion is also necessary, an atheist will make a movie on god aah daa dumeel
🚨 Murugan is back in the headlines : debates exploding over whether he’s a pan-Indian god, a Tamil ancestor, or something else entirely. Most people think this is some new Church “appropriation” tactic. It isn’t.
This is a time-tested ancient strategy that Christianity has used for nearly 2,000 years to dismantle pagan traditions by saying : “Your gods were once men.”
Around 300 BCE, the Greek pagan writer Euhemerus claimed the Olympian gods were not divine at all ; they were just deified kings and culture heroes whose exploits got exaggerated over time.
His doctrine is called Euhemerism now. Pagans of his own time largely rejected Euhemerism as impious. But early Christian writers loved the idea. They weaponised it. Church-fathers admiringly note that the mocking that Euhemerus received was undeserved, because Christians believed that pagans like Euhemerus had at least seen through popular error of the pagan religion (worshipping men as gods) even if they hadn’t reached the full truth of the Gospel of the one true God.
Church Fathers like Athenagoras (2nd century) and Clement of Alexandria openly argued that the Greek and Egyptian gods were simply historical kings who had been turned into deities by grateful (or fearful) subjects.
Their strategy was :
Concede they once existed as humans → deny their divinity → rewrite their myths as “history” instead of religion.
This “euhemerist” move gave Christians a powerful triple advantage:
1. It explained temples, statues, and festivals without admitting real gods.
2. It let them preserve and enjoy pagan myths and classics as mere literature.
3. It justified the destruction or conversion of sacred sites (any human however great does not deserve worship which belongs only to the one true God)
The same playbook later traveled to medieval Scandinavia, the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and now appears in modern India.
In my latest Substack article, I trace this exact Christian Euhemerist tactic from ancient Greece and Egypt, through the Patristic period, the Medieval period, and Colonial eras, right up to today’s debates around Murugan and other Hindu deities.
I quote the primary sources (including bolded key passages from the Church Fathers) so you can see the strategy in their own words.
If you want to understand why these “gods were once men/ancestors” arguments keep resurfacing — and why they feel so familiar in the Indian context — this piece connects the dots across two millennia.
Read it here :
https://t.co/UfbJKUDG2V
What do you think is this latest fad of Murugan being an ancestor after reading this article — novel historical revisionism? Nah, a recurring and time-tested pattern worth recognising, right?
Oka roju tamil gods veru antaru,
Oka roju hindus kaadhu memu shaivites antaru,
Oka roju buddhism nunchi copy chesaru antaru,
Oka roju Dravidans emo Lemuria (Kumari kandam) nunchi and Aryans emo Russia nunchi vaccharu, vaalu memu veru antaru
Oka maata meedha nilabadaru entra?
Parshuram - Founder of Kerala
Vaman/Vishnu - Kerala born
Hanuman - Kishkindha/Modern Day Karnataka
51 Shakti Peeths - Spread across India with origins of Local Goddess with unique name and Bhairav in each region. Prominent in South
Bhramari Devi
Chamundeshwari
Kaamakshi
LOL.
are u a bigger scholar than Wilfried Pieper.
He clearly says brahmanya ( a name of kartikey)
And know a fact both the coins are of Yaudheyas , where both the deities are a kartikey.
Not a single Tamil Brahmi inscription ever mentioned any deity called Murugan prior to 100 CE
Nothing can change the fact that the full fledged Murugan worship is a medieval thing
Literally a Kushana Brahmi inscription mentioning Kartikeya
Wrong! evidence of Murugan being Northern god is much older than that. He was patron deity of Yaudheya republic in Haryana and Punjab which predates even Sangam literature.
Regardless Murugan is not North or Tamil god. He is the Hindu god. And Lemurias have nothing to do with him.
The Caṅkam classic Paripāṭal itself places Murugan's birth in the Himalayas.
Murugan's birth is described in the North, yet his worship transcended every region of Bharat. He was revered across the length and breadth of the country, not confined to any one linguistic or regional identity from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, across every corner of Bharat.
Stop trying to imprison Hindu Gods within modern regional or political identities. Murugan was never a "regional god", he has always been a Hindu god revered across Bharat.