On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Radhika, Y. <radhik...@gmail.com> wrote: > One friend felt the Mahabharat to be highly > casteist - the prejudice is openly displayed
Well, to be honest, essentially all of the world's key religious texts are primitive, based in a tribal world-view; they encourage violence, sexual oppression, and all sorts of behavior that a modern reasonably civilized person would consider unacceptable. -T