You can respect a human, you should never admire him.

It hit me thinking of this commoditized-metricized-modernistic sports-fan worshiping business why
1) two of the three Semitic religions Judaism & Sunni Islam have a thing against human representation & consider that perfection and purity is not the business of humans &, critically, we humans should not be burdened by such aims, so better work on being a “good” human;
2) the third Catholic & Orthodox Christianity & some branches of Islam retained virtue from ancient thinking & limit hero-worship to dead saints and martyrs;

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