A Universal Offense

Nothing is sacred anymore. We are slowly heading toward a society where we are no longer mystified, no longer awed, and no longer believe that the separation between church and state that we apparently so vehemently believe in (fighting everything from prayer on the field to "under God" in the pledge to crosses in courthouses) applies to the states getting involved in the church.

Okay, so I am going out on a long, flimsy limb here, but... It's not that far-fetched.

I ran across this article, and my anger was growing in an off-hand, mildly interested way until I hit this paragraph and what followed:
"They claim it belongs in the temple. It’s hardly that simple, explained Deepak Sarma, a professor of religious studies at Case Western Reserve University."

According to the article, a law was passed in the area some 50 years ago that basically denies religious rights when it comes to the treasure, allowing it to be seized by the government.
What? Regardless of what religion you align yourself with, or what variation of that religion you claim, I don't see how it would ever be okay to what I believe is effectively robbing the religion institution. Those monies, treasures, whatever you choose to call the massive amount of gold, diamonds, etc. found in the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple, include donations given by believers to the Hindu gods they worship.

How would you feel if your government, from where ever you may be, invaded your place of worship and took your tithes, your donations, your charities, to do whatever they wanted with? I imagine some form of righteous indignation would ensue, or at least I hope it would.
For the sake of religious rights there, here, and around the world, I hope the greedy travesty that would be the government seizing billions of dollars of what rightfully belongs to that Temple never comes to fruition. I understand that in these trying times, it would be tempting to take and use what appears to be doing nothing but gathering dust in the confines of what the article calls "local superstition."

The dissolution of religion is nothing more than our modern society wanting to get away with every form of evil without ramifications of morality deigned upon them by a god or religious beliefs; and so now we have shaken our moral coils and now go where ancients feared to tread...the world of no belief.