I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel.
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I don't believe in hero worship.
I didn't ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the Christian community. So I accept it. But if I'm wrong about this, I guess I'll become a bum.
I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'
Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship.
There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me.
I don't have heroes, exactly, but I do have people I hold in high respect. Ronald Reagan, for example, stood for ideals that I value: integrity, patriotism and a fundamental belief in goodness and capabilities of mankind.
There are a lot of people I look up to and respect, but there's nobody really specific I would call a hero.
Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.
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