Originally posted by: Kareenafanatic
First of all, MB is a piece of fiction. The War may have occurred between people at some point, but everything else is the imagination of Vyas. In that sense, there's no point hating on Karna for his bad acts or putting Arjun in the pedestal of God for his sacrificial acts.
People tend to hide behind scriptures when discussing myths and religion. This is an age-old phenomena and it's not surprising why Vedic Civilization fell. Instead of transcending scriptures and evolving as humans, we started using informal patents and whenever somebody logically dissected them, the Priests/Learned Men/People of the day started reciting Sanskrit slokas. Memorization doesn't equal knowledge.
It may be your opinion that MB is a piece of fiction and Maharishi Vyasa "imagined it", but for thousands of Hindus all around the world, it is a religious epic that very much happened nearly 5,000 years ago. So to call it a piece of fiction, and accusing people of "hiding behind scriptures" is rather narrow-minded, because not everyone views Mahabharat or Ramayan or any other puranic epic as a simple story. For so many people, these epics are a part of their religion and Ram and Krishna are incarnations of Gods. These people don't "glorify" Krishna and "villify" Duryodhan because they feel like it. In fact, Krishna doesn't need to be glorified. His divine leelas speak for themselves! Even during the dwapar yuga days, there were people who pointed fingers at Krishna and tried to villify him, so it's really not surprising that people would do it today too, but at least be considerate of religious beliefs while discussing Mahabharat.
You may believe that believing in Gods and Gods' incarnations, or believing in religious epics is "illogical", but it's really frustrating that logic is being equated nowadays to removing the religious aspects of epics. One doesn't have to be narrow-minded and close-minded to be logical. They don't have to discard religious and all spiritual aspects from a scripture and dissect it through "logical" eyes to understand it. In fact, by doing that they're only getting 1/3 the picture. Yeah for some these may be just stories, but at least show some respect to those for whom these epics are sacred and religious. No one goes up to a Christian and tells them the stories in their Bible are folk tales, and no one goes up to a Muslim and tells them their Quran is all fake. It's really frustrating how Hindus are constantly targeted for believing Ram and Krishna are Gods, and the puranas are sacred stories which are a part of the scriptures. I'm getting sick and tired of being told these epics are fictional and the imagination of the writer. Believing in these epics does not mean one is hiding behind scriptures!!! It means they have a very different, more spiritual perspective of the epic than the "logical" person, and if that makes them irrational and stupid, so be it. Time will tell who's truly irrational.
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