"I've been fascinated by the recent spate of books casting doubt on religious faith, as if religion meant believing six impossible things before breakfast. Well, religion is a matter of holding certain beliefs, but that's not the only or even the most important thing about it. Religion is also about ritual; and ritual is about taking certain beliefs and making them real in the way we behave."
Chief Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks, Radio 4, Thought for the Day, 12 September 2007
In India a proposed shipping canal that will provide a continuous navigable sea route around the Indian peninsula has been held up. The canal may disturb or destroy a natural bridge formed by rocks and stones that Hindus beleieve was built by the god Ram and an army of monkeys. A report into the potential damage questioned the existence of the god in the first place and now the whole project has descended into uproar and argument. Presumably this bridge was built by a thousand monkeys with a thousand JCB diggers?
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