Sugar Land, Texas, near Houston, is now home to a 90 foot tall statue of the Hindu monkey god, Hanuman.
Hanuman, the monkey god
The massive statue was raised on August 15 at Sugar Land's Sri Ashtalakshmi Temple, according to local NBC affiliate, KCEN. Hindus consider Hanuman an immortal being known for his devotion to the Hindu god Rama and virtues like self-control.
The Texas Hanuman figure, officially titled the “Statue of Union,” is now reportedly the third tallest statue in the continental U.S., trailing only the 151-foot tall Statue of Liberty in New York and the 110-foot tall Pegasus and Dragon statue in Hallandale Beach, Florida.
"Hanuman is a symbol of uniting communities, uniting people behind a goal," said Vijay Sreenarasimhaiah, the Hindu temple's vice president. "He’s an example of a good spiritual leader because he brings people together."
The monkey god being venerated by Hindu idolaters
The statue was designed in India by Sri Chinnajeeyar Swamiji who goes by “His Holiness.” The parts were manufactured in China, then shipped to the United States and assembled at the temple.
Prasad Gadiraju, the temple's president, said there's a reason behind the statue's height and weight. "90 is a very significant number. It’s an auspicious number," he said.
For their part, the Roman Catholics seem envious that another idolatrous religion now has a bigger idol than they do. LifeSite News said:
“A 90-foot-tall statue of the monkey-headed Hindu god Lord Hanuman has been erected in Texas, replacing Our Lady of the Rockies, a sculpture of the Blessed Mother in Montana, as the third-tallest statue in the U.S.”
It is important to note that this statue is not some cultural artifact on display in a museum. No, this is an active idol, currently being venerated by Hindu idolators at a Hindu temple. In Texas.
The Second Commandment seems pertinent just now:
“You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments. Ex. 20:4-6.
One Christian commentator on X had this to say:
She was immediately rebuked as a bigot, and “community notes” added this comment to her post:
But what does Scripture say about idols? In a couple of places they are referred to as demons:
“They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods; with abominations they provoked Him to anger. They sacrificed to demons, not to God . . .” (Deut 32:16-17)
“What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything? Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.” (1 Cor 10:19-20)
This type of gross idolatry on American soil is a by-product of American employers’ insatiable thirst for cheap foreign labor. Abuse of H-1b visas has resulted in about five million Hindus coming here to take jobs Americans would happily take if a corrupted and debauched congress did not allow the importation of a foreign serf class for greedy employers.
We have already had occasion to mark the degradation that multiple generations of idolatry have wrought on the Indian people. How long before God judges this land for gross idolatry? Or, maybe the fact that we have been given over to pagan idolators, whose takeover of the trucking industry is making our roads unsafe to drive on, and has already killed at least a thousand of us, is itself judgment on us for our previous satanic abominations, like same-sex marriage?