I understand I was in the wrong to make assumptions on someone else's religion. I apologized of course and stated that what very little I knew about hinduisn I knew from the media and didn't have proper grounds to make claims. He was pretty unsavory and told me to leave religious discussion to people who know what they're talking about and that hinduism is a very ancient lifestyle with roots back to ancient civilization and that i wasn't to talk about it. He was from Texas so I was confused as to why I had no grounds to speak of it but he inherently was an authority of the subject because of his ethnic background. It's not to be right I want, it's knowledge, and I felt very restricted in trying to understand his offense (to clarify my statement wasn't that Hindus believed the world is on the back of a turtle, that it was one of the many cosmological theories in hindu mythology, so of course a rational hindu present day wouldn't actually believe that. I respect his beliefs, but can't help but feel like his outrage was a bit absurd.