A maverick who died a miserable death can be serve our spiritual needs better than ..

Submitted by Ted (United States), Feb 28, 2011 at 02:31

A maverick who suffered and died a miserable death and was elevated to a Godly status can serve people's spiritual needs better than someone who ordered other's killings for selfish worldly gains.

Let us not worry about specific names. Can we just agree with the above statement in principle?

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