HEROES ARE FLAWED

It's been way too long. Part of that is life, part tiring of arguing with people who find logic anathema, part finding other outlets for my rants, and, last but not least, mostly making some atheist friends online.

In response to this amusing photo an acquaintance of mine took of what to do when family forces gifts of a religious nature on you, I wrote the following:
My pic of "Jesus" at Gethsemane on my wall is actually a poster for a play where my most hedonistic acquaintance played the guy without needing any sort of hair, makeup, or costume. He hung out in that style of robes in his free time, had the hair and beard, and is a decent actor. He's also a selfish womanizer who gets underage girls pregnant and runs for the hills.

It's a reminder that even real heroes that existed, such as Einstein, Newton, and Emily Dickinson, were pretty messed up people with very HUMAN problems. We glorify them, but they all tend to be of the chop their ear off variety of madness and deep flaws when we look at them as a whole.

My point is that even if the guy existed, to which there is only proof otherwise of anything written during his supposed time, he'd be flawed. (Note how about 30 years of his life weren't mentioned AT ALL. Was that his teen rebel and gay period?) Seriously, though, even the biblical God is a flawed asshole most of the time, so why do religious people think of him and Jesus as perfect? The bible seems proof otherwise.

When i asked an Orthodox Presbyterian I know, he said, "God DEFINES good, so ANYTHING He does is good by definition." Whatever, but why then does it only apply to him? If I, say, were to find a way to flood the world of all the folks who didn't follow my every word, I'd be the worst tyrant the world had ever seen, so the works themselves are not good, just God and whatever whim happens to strike him at that moment. 

Yeah, the belief is all pretty abusive--not to mention being all about giving those few allowed to speak for God to the masses MASSIVE amounts of freaking power. How sad it is that when we try to free people from such abusive enslavement they call us immoral, evil, and less trustworthy than rapists. Truly, truly sad.

By the way, I'm not for going around killing people who annoy me, but I'm not overly surprised they did Socrates in. He was the adult version of that four-year-old kid who follows you around asking "why, why, but why" every second until you want to rip your hair out and cover their mouth with duct tape. FREAKING BRILLIANT, yes, but annoying as hell. Einstein was even more of an ass due to playing so little value on people versus massive value on himself and his work. Nature tends to even things out that way; no one has it all.