Views like these are the reason I agree with acharyas that our scriptures must NOT be learnt without the guidance of a guru! https://twitter.com/kushal_mehra/status/1301533621908504576

There is a concept of sacred .. once that is destroyed by making the sacred mundane (like seeing deities as mere human forms with the same qualities) there is no going back.

If all you see is a sexy hot body, where is divinity?

And the basic human trait lust - if the divine is just a female body, what about other women in your family? Like sisters and aunts and nieces?

This is why objectification is a slope that must be resisted. It can go downhill pretty fast. For that is the nature of human mind.

One can forget the religious aspect for now (for we are rational, right) ..

If I were to describe any woman in those terms in open discussion, would I be considered civilized company? Would you allow me into your home? If not, why is it acceptable to objectify goddesses?

On a "war of religions" plane, it is not right to compare the attack of atheists on Abrahamic religions and attacks like these on the forms of our gods and goddesses (in particular).

Two reasons: 1) attacks on Christianity or Islam happen along ideas - what is written in books++

++, and what they do on the ground. I haven't yet seen an atheist attack on Jesus' being slapped on a cross. It will be about "how can a dead man come back alive". And more importantly (2) Abrahamic religions don't have female deities that are equivalent to our goddesses.

So, the question of almost ad hominem attacks on the form of a goddess, is unique to the Hindu. Therefore, the offense taken by Hindus has really no parallel.

What atheists should do is to read our Upanishads and debate us on its contents. Or debate us on our itihasa.

But, that is hard work. And most likely will fail. Because brains better than today's atheists have tried and failed in the past.