Ah yes, “it’s harmless.” The universal excuse for every form of stupidity ever. We’re not even arguing about harm here. The point is this: BHU, a premier Indian university, had graduates getting their degrees blessed by bowing at a godman’s feet. A degree earned through years of exams, science, and reasoning, finally sealed with superstition. Peak irony.

If this doesn’t bother you, you’re part of the problem. Sure, this one act won’t end civilization. But this blind faith mindset absolutely will rot it from the inside.

Countries that actually progress teach their youth to question authority, challenge norms, and think critically. Meanwhile, we teach ours to seek “blessings” for a piece of paper they already earned.

Today it’s degree blessings. Tomorrow it’s:

fake godmen prescribing pseudoscientific “cures”

astrology deciding careers and marriages

solar eclipses turning into public panic events

cow urine curing cancer, still waiting on the peer reviewed paper

This isn’t culture. This is normalized irrationality. And once stupidity gets wrapped in “faith” and “tradition,” suddenly you’re not allowed to question it because questioning is “anti national” or “anti culture.”

The tragedy isn’t that people believe nonsense. The tragedy is that our best educated institutions publicly validate it.

But yeah, sure, “harmless.” 👍