As we commemorate Dr. King, we need to toss the " great man" concept of leadership, our knee-jerk longing to worship epic individuals and not citizen action.
Du Fu, who grew up in the cultural circle of Luoyang, still maintained the aesthetics of the Six Dynasties and sincerely admired many poets from that era.
There was no place for a god like Thor in the new religion and so the worshippers either practiced their faith in secret, until they died or converted to the new faith.
But you idolize people who, and maybe it's unconscious when you're younger, but I think you do unconsciously idolize people who are true to them and are being original in some way.
Not a human being that ever lived could wish to be loved better than I was loved; and him who thus loved me I absolutely worshipped: and I must renounce love and idol.
If we simply worship the by imitating their hairstyle or pursuing fashions unreasonably, the obsession will certainly waste a great deal of our time and money, endangering the efficiency of our study or work.
Judge of my rapture, when informed that you had gazed upon it with delight, or rather with adoration; that you had suspended it in your Cell, and that you addressed your supplications to no other Saint.