RE:excellent article
by Nandini Venkat on Aug 05, 2008 12:16 AM
Totally agree that millions of people believing in something does not make it true. The same argument holds for belief in the existence of God, performing many kinds of rituals and so many things related God, sometimes religion. I fail to understand your argument on "going to hell":) People are free (or atleast, should be free) to practice any religion they want and believe anything they want if they think it gives them some kind of an anchor in life. However, believing in "going to hell" or heaven is not an argument put forth today to form any public policy. If it is historically and scientifically proven that Ram Setu is only a natural formation and has nothing to do with Ram, then we have NO basis to appeal for respect to religious sentiments. The Govt. is free to do what it wants. However, we are not there yet. Yes, the essence of Hinduism is believing in truth - my argument is that we do not know the truth and hence all the unrest, because every person, with all his heart, believes that he has the correct perspective of the world around him. Also, my personal feeling is Tamil Natan is wrong in that vast majority of people in Tamil Nadu support the project. I have no statistical evidence, but I am sure he has none either. So, we are both free to air our views. So just chill :)
