General Discussion

About the canonization going on::

This/here has nothing to do with celebrating the murder. In the same way, the fellow murdered, as proved by his extensive public comments, had next to nothing to put him in a category of santification. Disclaimer: All I knew of him before the murder was to have heard his name a few times in the context of his being, vaguely, something of a MAGAt but not even seeing a picture of him and not even curious enough about him to look up anything about him. And, to date, all I have seen is his being featured on MAHER's Club Random, which was enough for me to jump to my conclusions, which are that:

* he wasn't "relatable" (as was balleyhooed after the murder);
* his also balleyhooded "debating" rivals was more like brow-beating the opponent for their surrender/submission;
* his curtailed formal education, not a flaw in itself, showed out as rigidity and lack of curiousity besides gaps of ignorance;
* his "religious" beliefs are just Fundamentalist scripture-based platitudes, not spiritual or scholarly-informed;
* his blind devotion is to run-of-the-mill MAGAtry, no values of public good or service;
* the MAGAt canonization violates, in the governental Civil sense, Separation of church/state, and in the religion sense, blasphemy.

*** So he was basically Fundie-MAGAt, nothing to see there. But on the universal level, he shares the very special status of sharing the fate of the hundreds of persons murdered in the U.S. from refusal to institute reasonable gun control, and on the universal level is a human with whatever specialness that carries (while another view can be that no species is more special than another one).