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Man's iPhone falls into Tamil Nadu temple's donation box, declared 'deity’s property'
(www.indiatoday.in)
this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2024
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Damn. That’s some next level assholery on the temple administration. Sure fire way to lose a devotee too. Fuck religion.
Interestingly, the temple administration permitted Dinesh to retrieve the data from his Apple device...
why, though? does that also not belong to the deity under their twisted logic?
The deity gets to keep the original data, no harm in allowing copies.
Yeah, as soon as they handed me the phone to "get my data", id just walk out. Maybe theres a cultural difference that im not getting here?
Yeah, a simple one.
He was donating to this god, so he's a believer in it.
Wanting your phone back legally and properly is different from stealing from your own church.
Most Christians probably wouldn't mug Jesus, even if they'd mug someone else.
It'd be different if he didn't ascribe to this religion, but he does.
So, say you own something illegal, and you put it in the donation box. Can the temple be punished for possessing such items? The ownership is fully the temple's once it ends up in the donation box, no?
Dispose of murder weapon in donation box, implicate god in murder, god is arrested and jailed for 8-15 years
I have a feeling the person who originally stole it would be receiving the brunt of the punishment with the temple just assisting the local police to ensure nothing happens to them... unless it's one of the countries where the police are corrupt and will attack regardless of situation.
You haven't watched one indian movie, I bet. 😂
You're right that I've never seen an Indian movie, as far as I'm aware. I'm sure they have some good ones, but I've never been interested in them. Hell, I'm not even interested in live action anymore, so I have even less interest in them now.
Whats the trope?
I think in every single Indian movie I’ve seen (which is not a lot), the police are corrupt lol. Even in ones where the main character is a cop, the other police are corrupt.
It sounds like it's mostly based on tradition/fear that revoking a gift might anger the god. As much as it sounds petty, we are thinking about it as a monetary thing, since we(most of us) likely don't believe in a god. But it has likely been the way things are done for a very long time. And fear of angering their god or losing the gods blessing is a big deal to them. Like, life or death level in their minds.
Pro move here would be to get him a different, non-sacred phone and copy the data.
That was indeed the offer made.
I think he's paying the price for his ridiculous beliefs. All powerful gods clearly lack the understanding of a simple mistake. I'm sure the god of Bozo will make good use of that phone, you know calling all of his godly friends, surfing the heavenly net with his overpowered data plan, maybe swiping right from time to time.
I mean what exactly do they do with these phones? Probably sell them and put the money toward the church. Why not sell it back to the rightful owner?
Such a "Not The Onion" headline. Article is more hilarious too, although being completely real.
I have such a hard time sympathizing with religious cults.
Does that mean we can now phone a god? They probably won't reply as they'll be too busy shitposting on social media, but still....
The funny part is an iPhone is essentially a brick if it’s activated to someone else’s account. Wouldn’t be possible for the church to even use it without the owners cooperation, which I would assume they didn’t get.
Somebody in Shenzhen can make something work from that phone.
Sell it to someone who sell it to someone who ship it to Shenzhen.
Donate some fire to the deity.
That's fucked up.
Kobe!