(March 15, 2015)
The
heroism of Gideon reaches its end here, and it is an end of violence and
brutality. The hero does not get to die
in his bed in his old age – he is not only killed, but killed by his enemy in
public in his home time while the ideology of this enemy continues ascendant.
Yet
that doesn’t change the fact that Gideon was a hero. Just because the hero doesn’t always win (in
a temporal sense), we still should look to these heroes and emulate those
aspects of their characters that can help us to build and become the people
that we should be. It is far, far better
to be a fallen hero such as Gideon than to be a prevailing villain such as
Nehor.
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