When Arthur Conan Doyle published his first novel on Sherlock Holmes, citizens of London were so captivated by the character that they believed he was real, and started hunting for 221B, Baker street, the fictional address given in the novel as his residence.
No wonder people wish to incarnate and worship fictional characters. What baffles me are these : If it had really happened in history, why is it attributed to a single author for penning it as an epic? How is that nobody else from the same era not know anything about such a legendary personality? How did a man on earth, born to 2 humans, become god? How come an epic recorded a story spanning a few generations during an era when history only recorded the existence of flora and fauna? Why din't this figure in any history books? Why do all my compatriots, who are so convinced about the historicity of this story, don't expect this in their history books, but quietly pass their history exams with high grades? Why do my countrymen, who are in a constant pursuit of better knowledge, believe that an army of monkeys built an engineering marvel?
What did my nation and faith achieve in all the violence that ensued the now forgotten temple construction movement? Why is so much energy wasted in protecting a structure that the nation did not know existed until 15 years ago? How does it benefit my faith by keeping the structure? Or, how will it benefit the economy by making a recess in it? Why are followers of a faith
