This extends beyond mere half-baked doctrines in places I have no intention of visiting. It extends across nations. How often have we heard bleating from new-age crystal suckers about India? As it happens I've visited once or twice (Delhi, Bombay) (they keep changing names though) and am utterly mystified. How could anyone think this wretched hole offered any sort of enlightenment? It's easily the most unenlightened place you'll ever see. A single example suffices: gigantic public latrines. Done. Not even Africa has that. And as for China, perhaps the less said the better about what happens on bridges, “Ew!”
The united Hindu Rite combines Mary and Ganesh into a single madonna image as the mother of a (false) god. It's a combination of hindoo idolatry and catholicism as the 6 minute clip explains (sort of) but if you've seen the picture you'll get the general idea. Is this different from a union between Methodists and Zoroastrians? Catholic and Orthodox cults? No. Often one will say of the other how blasphemous idols in a "church" are, according to one cult, while ignoring the blasphemy of their own icons. Apparently one is a statue of a person while the other is a representation of an abstract concept. Or perhaps the icon itself is abstract – but they look like figurative to me. Perhaps the hindoo claims that "Ganesh" represents an abstract concept, too, one celebrated in Hinduism. Who knows? But that doesn't mean there aren't real elephants and attempts by such a dreadful place to glom on to wealthier belief systems (one with countless palaces, cardinals, mansions, gold everything with ultratacky gem encrustation, say) are understandable I guess.
What they really need to do though is jettison the lies and substitute Truth for the best Christmas present there is.