This is a list of disrespectful, disconnected mix of facts and fictions which has flimsy grounding in reality and doesn’t address the main question I was asking

This is a list of disrespectful, disconnected mix of facts and fictions which has flimsy grounding in reality and doesn’t address the main question I was asking, but I will engage in good faith. https://theprint.in/opinion/western-reading-of-shivalingam-as-phallic-symbol-is-incorrect-for-hindus-shiva-is-formless/971907/ https://theprint.in/opinion/western-reading-of-shivalingam-a... > As you may know the story Shivas Phallus was cut by Indra, and now Hindus Worship the fallen penis of their deity from puranas being cut by another deity of the vedas. What kind of person would write such stories and then go ahead and worship the fallen penis of its god? No normal Hindu knows or believes in this story. This is the first I have heard of it. Remember, only Vedas/Upanishads/Gita count as core scripture. Also, any religion will have a lot of conflicting stories that neither the lay populace nor scholars consider seriously. > Why Buddhas face on this claimed shivalinga How? I didn't know you had a photo of Buddha to say that is Buddha's face. Also, why does Buddha have three faces? Wasn't he human? (Tip: most ancient statues look alike facially) > Claimed as shivalinga, can you explain why the buddhas hand mudra Those mudras predate Buddha's birth by centuries. > Is this shivas face on his own phallus? https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/38242 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/38242 No, Hindu considers the lingam to be a real phallus. I guess the mind sees what it wants to see. I don't understand how you went to eating a phallus from the image. Not every cylinder is a phallus. Hinduism is fluid due to accommodating scientific inquiry, I will let Sagan and Schopenhauer do the talking here. Because of this scientific/open nature, it has to be fluid. You will see names and stories change depending on current culture, language, events as stories and names are merely symbolic (Rudra -> Shiva is not the damning attack you think it is). > “The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long. Longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos > "Thus originated in the primitive ancestors of the Brahmans, the Rishis, the almost superhuman conceptions which were afterwards set down in the Upanishads of the Vedas." > schopenhauer https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/601581-the-hindu-religion-is-the-only-one-of-the-world-s https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/601581-the-hindu-religion-i... https://deeshaa.org/2021/01/02/schopenhauer-on-the-upanishads/ https://deeshaa.org/2021/01/02/schopenhauer-on-the-upanishad... Also, I am not going to respond to YouTube videos by cranks. I was hoping someone will respond with at least one peer reviewed article but ha ha I was being too optimistic lol.