23,000 deities

Well, I'm a coupla days short and oh, so many dollars short, but I thought John Hodgeman's take the other night on why India is a safer candidate for a nuclear arms agreement with the U.S. was quite insightful. He pointed out that, although the country has the second largest population of Muslims on the planet and, therefore, a "healthy" amount of rage towards the United States, nationwide, the country has a number of religions, with

23,000 deities, so you see the point...with so many gods the hate is diluted.