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Originally Posted by awareness
And Mike asked about Hinduism (I think Mike asked, but maybe it was rhetorical).
Anyway, Krishna was flawed too. Not only was he a prankster, but he also killed people, like his uncle. I think pretty much, besides Jesus, no human hero is/was other than flawed. It's a common motif with heroes.
So sorry bro Mike, but you are either wrong or ill-informed.
None of us can know everything. Isn't that why we're on this forum? to be informed by others that know things we don't know?
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I hate to say it this way, but this answer is technically unresponsive.
So the Hindus follow a capricious god. That still is not the point. Do the sacred texts of the religion speak of its natural people (not its gods) as either entirely flawed and thus derelict or, instead, perfectly good, heroic, and "saint-like"?
Same question concerning the humans referred to in the stories about the Greek, Norse, Roman, and other gods. The question is not about the gods, but about the stature of the humans written into the stories.
I guess that in the case of the Roman/Greek myths, the question is who is a god and who is just a man. What was Achilles? Just a man, or one of the lesser gods with a fatal flaw?
And, in the case of the Norse, Roman and Greek gods, are there any truly "sacred" texts which in any way reference mortals as other than as the pathetic followers of the gods, or are there any Abrahams, Moseses, Davids, etc?
These kinds of hierarchies of imperfect gods sort of muddies the analysis.
And I did not assert that the claim, made by another, was simply true. I admitted, up front, that I did not know.
But the question still has not been answered.
And it may be that it is too far off-topic to continue at this point.