Did faith get challeged by a fictional flash?

"That's not possible. Why are you guys wasting your time watching this?", poked my wife who had a religious upbringing. "Ma, just watch. It is fiction and about superheros. Just enjoy the series", said my just turned teen son just as I expected he would!

Thanks to the pandemic we had taken up watching webseries on Amazon Prime OTT as a family. The latest in that was "The Flash", a fictional superhero who is portrayed as the fastest man on a parallel Earth". He saves the Capital City from other dangerous meta-humans. Meta-humans are characters with supernatural powers who got created as a result of a, construed, explosion of a particle accelerator (super machine) designed for time travel experiement.

My digital native teenage children were absulutely in awe with the possibility and the concept of The Flash. While my son admired the superhero his elder sister liked the script and characters! Both, for a change, teamed up to support the science behind it and ahead of them.

We were watching an episode in which The Flash runs so fast that he time travels into the future! This obviously was beyond the comprehension for my wife. Her constant poking in disbelief became a point of contention and debate.

Being the mediator, and to help bring peace to family-time, I decided to give some pointers to make it a balanced and heatlty debate. "You never questioned this possibility when the kids were watching Mahabarat series. There was an episode in which Krishna temporarily halts time to let Arjuna get a sneak peak of the future", I asked my wife who was getting ready for spiritual symposium. 

I knew I was treading a senstitive topic (with her). But, that was the best example, I thought will help her to co-relate. It didn't help when my son quipped, "Actually, The Flash is like Arjun and Dr Wells is the Krishna on wheelchair". 

After a 30 seconds pause and shell shocked face my wife retorted, "That's different. Don't compare Lord Krishna and Maharbarat to this. Don't use it to justify what is not humanely possible just because you don't have faith in god".

Let me say, the poking in disbelief became a thing of the past after that night. We watched the remaining espisodes of The Falsh, happily ever after.

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