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: