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AP PHOTOS: Hindu festival draws Mormon crowds
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| 3-29-2014
| Associated Press
Posted on 03/29/2014 6:04:09 PM PDT by fishtank
"Revelers with colored corn starched hands celebrate during the 2014 Festival of Colors, Holi Celebration at the Krishna Temple Saturday, March 29, 2014, in Spanish Fork, Utah. Nearly 70,000 people are expected to gather starting Saturday at a Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork for the annual two-day festival of colors. Revelers gyrate to music and partake in yoga during the all-day festival, throwing colored corn starch in the air once every hour. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the large majority of participants are not Hindus, but Mormons. Thousands of students from nearby Brigham Young University come to take part in a festival that is drug and alcohol free. The event stems from a Hindu tradition celebrating the end of winter and the triumph of good over evil. (AP Photo - Rick Bowmer)"
TOPICS: Evangelical Christian; Other non-Christian; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: gnostic; hindu; inman; mormon; polytheism
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To: Elsie
Modeling the new magic underwear, now in green...
Revelers throw colored corn starch in the air while celebrating during the 2014 Festival of Colors, Holi Celebration at the Krishna Temple Saturday, March 29, 2014, in Spanish Fork, Utah. Nearly 70,000 people are expected to gather starting Saturday at a Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork for the annual two-day festival of colors.
Revelers gyrate to music and partake in yoga during the all-day festival, throwing colored corn starch in the air once every hour. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the large majority of participants are not Hindus, but Mormons. Thousands of students from nearby Brigham Young University come to take part in a festival that is drug and alcohol free. The event stems from a Hindu tradition celebrating the end of winter and the triumph of good over evil.
RICK BOWMER — AP Photo Read more here:
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03/30/2014 4:29:38 PM PDT
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Utah Binger
(Southern Utah where the world comes to see America)
To: little jeremiah
Some Hindus are ignorant of their own scriptures.I'm beginning to think that most Christians also fall into this category!
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03/30/2014 5:23:45 PM PDT
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Utah Binger
Modeling the new magic underwear, now in green...Algore would be SO proud!
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03/30/2014 5:24:54 PM PDT
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
God bless elliemae.....the cats appreciate it...:O)
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