Religion fundamentalists the world over very angrily push their myths as literal facts, and often politicians have to at least somewhat indulge them. While mul

Religion fundamentalists the world over very angrily push their myths as literal facts, and often politicians have to at least somewhat indulge them. While multiple US examples are probably well known here, I’d like to suggest one from India from circa 2008, the controversy over the Sethusamudram Shipping Canal. India wanted to dig a “canal” (more like dredge a shipping channel) in the waters between India and Sri Lanka. Religious fundamentalists opposed this because it would involve cutting a natural rock formation. What so special about these rocks? Well they were placed there by Lord Ram and his army of monkeys as chronicled in the Ramayana. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sethusamudram_Shipping_Canal_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sethusamudram_Shipping_Canal_P...