@busenitz i agree with your first half part!!! :p and about denying to put tika on your forehead!!! i would do that too!!! i barely put it and everytime i deny it my mom goes on her long speech!!! its just that i do it for her happiness!!! i go to temples too but not because i want to because my parents would be sad if i don't!! i have my own views on god but i will keep aside my faith for my parents happiness!!! and yeah i don't have anything for people who follows religion properly and do according to it.. but i bet none of the people are following exactly what they are supposed to be doing.. america ma aune bittekaiii beef khancha and they call me ridicule for not believing me in god!! is that what the hinduism taught ?? hypocrites ??? i always believed in my karma is better than your dogma !!!!:p