People seem to forget the ‘if you do not hate your father and mother, yes, even yourself, you cannot be a true follower of me’ and ‘someone who lusts after someone else is equivalent to having committed adultery’ verses. Just because he said some pretty things doesn’t make it all great.
Idolizing any other person of any era is silly, but sifting out the good from the bad and passing it forward should be heartening. Seeing society progress and finding its prototypes deeply flawed is just progress on display
People seem to forget the ‘if you do not hate your father and mother, yes, even yourself, you cannot be a true follower of me’ and ‘someone who lusts after someone else is equivalent to having committed adultery’ verses. Just because he said some pretty things doesn’t make it all great.
Idolizing any other person of any era is silly, but sifting out the good from the bad and passing it forward should be heartening. Seeing society progress and finding its prototypes deeply flawed is just progress on display