Many temple priests are not as nice people as one would assume guardians of religions to be. All they are interested in is carrying out their brahminical rituals so that they do not accumulate any bad karma. One will not find many of these genuinely interested in helping people, or doing some good for them. They are just interested in making people follow religious rituals rigorously. They can mouth as many shlokas as you ask them to, they supposedly love god, but they lack love for their fellow people. No religion talks of discriminating among people, atleast not among those who have faith in it, no matter what their background be. It is because of such people like that we have such a strongly caste based society even today. Many of the priests are extremely orthodox in their attitudes, and if it was up to these people, we still would have been a primitive god fearing society. I will mention a small incident that took place when I was 12. I wanted to put some money in the temple. First, I put it in front of a deity in an open plate. Then I thought it would be a better idea to put in the donation box, since it is closed, and hence safer. And I slipped the money in the box. Seeing that, the priest yelled at me like hell. According to him, it was not right to take money back from that plate. I told him why I did so, but that didn't matter to him.
