The story and the myth..

A Story? A Myth? A Reality?

Story 1:

Long ago there existed a vigilante, a crime fighter named Batman in the Gotham City. He had a place called the BatCave which was his liar. He fought crime, helped people, lodged criminals behind bars and made the city happy. He also had a superhuman friend 'Superman' whose abilities included flight, superstrength, x-ray vision and heat rays. Both of them lived on this earth hundreds of year back.

How do we know this? From the books (comics) of Batman & Superman written few years back. Is there any other proof that they existed? No, but faith of millions can't be wrong, and they must have existed. Do the stories look convincing? Yes they do. Deoes everyone believe in this? No, but some of the people(DC comics followers) on this earth do.

Current Situation:

There is another group of people who believe only in Spiderman (Marvel comics followers), and they believe he is the only superhero who existed on this planet. Do they have any proof (except comic book)? No. Any evidence? No. They've built his memorial in the Gotham city. Now DC followers and Marvel followers fight for the ownership of this, with Marvel followers saying this is a Memorial dedicated to their beloved Spiderman, and DC followers saying this is the birthplace of Batman, and they hold the ownership of this site


Find this story idiotic? Foolish? People believing in the characters of some comic book story which has no material evidence? Find it hard to believe how some people can believe in just a story so much that they fight over the characters? Now read this story:

Story 2:

Long ago there existed aa avatar of God, a demon fighter named Rama in the Ayodhya City. He had a place called the Ayodhya which was his liar. He fought demons, helped people, lodged miscreants behind bars and made the city happy. He also had a superhuman friend 'Hanuman' whose abilities included flight and superstrength. Both of them lived on this earth thousands of year back.

How do we know this? From the books of Rama & Hanuman (Ramayana) written few thousands years back. Is there any other proof that they existed? No, but faith of millions can't be wrong, and they must have existed. Do the stories look convincing? Yes they do. Deoes everyone believe in this? No, but some of the people(Hindus) on this earth do.

Current Situation:

There is another group of people who believe only in Allah (Islam followers), and they believe he is the only God who existed on this planet. Do they have any proof (except their holy book)? No. Any evidence? No. They've built his mosque in the Ayodhya city. Now Hindus and Muslims fight for the ownership of this, with Muslims saying this is a Memorial dedicated to their beloved Allah, and Hindus saying this is the birthplace of Rama, and they hold the ownership of this site



Some people will find the first story utterly foolish, and the second story reality (based on the faith of millions). But as you notice, the only difference in both the stories is that one was written some 40-50 years back, and the other one some 1000 years back. But most of the people would laugh at the first story calling it as a figment of imagination, and hail the second one and true to the core. They will reject the characters of Batman, Superman, and Spiderman as 'imaginary' characters, but will believe in Rama, Hanuman and Allah so much so that they'll worship them daily and owe their existence to them.

What an irony!!

--Ashutosh