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TIRUCHIRAPALLI, India -- Balaji, a Hindu priest, stood before the reclining god and offered a plate of coconut and bananas. His chest bare and his face adorned with red and yellow sacred paste, he set the food at the foot of a statue that Hindus regard as an embodiment of the powerful god Vishnu.
Following ancient tradition deep inside one of India's oldest and holiest temples, he chanted Vishnu's names 108 times to beseech health, wealth and good fortune -- not for himself, but for an Indian emigrant living in London who had purchased the prayer with her credit card on a Hindu Web site.
-- Kevin Sullivan for The Washington Post
Evidently, religion is getting so big on the Internet that it is even rivaling Internet porn. Just let me say, if you ever hear of Monk buying such religious services online instead of Internet porn, go ahead and hire a contract killer online to shoot me, because I have obviously lost all my will to live.
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TIRUCHIRAPALLI, India -- Balaji, a Hindu priest, stood before the reclining god and offered a plate of coconut and bananas. His chest bare and his face adorned with red and yellow sacred paste, he set the food at the foot of a statue that Hindus regard as an embodiment of the powerful god Vishnu.
Following ancient tradition deep inside one of India's oldest and holiest temples, he chanted Vishnu's names 108 times to beseech health, wealth and good fortune -- not for himself, but for an Indian emigrant living in London who had purchased the prayer with her credit card on a Hindu Web site.
-- Kevin Sullivan for The Washington Post
Evidently, religion is getting so big on the Internet that it is even rivaling Internet porn. Just let me say, if you ever hear of Monk buying such religious services online instead of Internet porn, go ahead and hire a contract killer online to shoot me, because I have obviously lost all my will to live.
