just listening to an interview about this on the radio. To paraphrase:

Spokesman for the Hindu forum of Great Britain: Hundreds of thousands of people believe this bridge was built by the Lord Ram.

Interviewer: so, essentially, the truth of that belief is irrelevant, as long as enough people believe it?

Spokesman: What people need to realise is that religious beliefs are not simply true or false like someone believing that the sun is x miles away. They are much more complex like that.

Interviewer: So the truth is irrelevant?

Spokesman: This belief is deeply held, deeply held by hundreds of thousands of people. It is unacceptable to criticise a religious belief in that way.

Interviewer: So the report by the archeologists and scientists should not have been written?

Spokesman: If I said there was no historic evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, Christians would be outraged. Religious beliefs are very complex, and that must be respected. The report contracdicts something that hundreds of thousands of people deeply believe!

Interviewer: I see.