“I feel very emotional,” said Ms Peppa, a writer. “We have been persecuted for 16-and-a-half centuries but now we are here. This is our human right. And we shall carry on worshipping at our temples. They have now been put to proper use.

“This is as important to us, as prayers are for Muslims, Christians or Hindus,” said Apollonius, a former taverna owner from Melbourne, Australia.

He abandoned the Church for the 12 Gods, because ‘they make me feel whole, they make me feel part of the universe.”

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NOTE SHE SAID “WE HAVE BEEN PERSECUTED…”
sounds like for crosstianity sez

E doherty:
On the other hand, they say a picture is worth a thousand words. British traveller Edward Moor around 1800 brought back many sketches of Hindu sculptures and monuments, some which depicted a figure apparently crucified, with nail holes in feet and hands. Moor’s publication of these travels and sketches was edited and censored at the behest of Christian authorities of the time in Britain, while other reports from India suffered a similar fate. Kersey Graves reports:

(Sir Godfrey Higgins) informs us that a report on the Hindoo religion, made out by a deputation from the British Parliament, sent to India for the purpose of examining their sacred books and monuments, being left in the hands of a Christian bishop at Calcutta, and with instructions to forward it to England, was found, on its arrival in London, to be so horribly mutilated and eviscerated as to be scarcely cognizable. The account of the crucifixion was gone—cancelled out. The inference is patent. [Sixteen Crucified Saviors, p.107]

Acharya S, in her recent Suns of God, tells a similar story, of “plates and an entire chapter removed [from Moor's publication], which have luckily been restored in a recent edition of the original text” [p.243], although descriptions of this missing material have long been available through Godfrey Higgins who examined Moor’s original work in the British Museum during the 1800s. This is part of a thorough examination in one chapter of Suns of God, of the whole question of whether Krishna was regarded, at least in some circles, as crucified. There are multiple versions of his death (as there are in most ancient mythology attached to savior gods), and it is possible that some form of ‘crucifixion’, probably on a tree, is one of them. Acharya refers to other cases of apparent destruction of records and mutilation of texts in modern times, by ecclesiastical interests seeking to hide the evidence of parallels. To this we must add the destruction caused by conflicts like World War II, a situation which has made it more difficult than ever for modern researchers to track down and verify the existence of such parallels in the primary record. Dismissal by modern apologists of such conditions and practices as some kind of nutty conspiracy theory is unwise, as Christian history almost from its beginnings is full of wanton destruction of anything that could call into question the veracity and originality of the Christian faith.