The good news of the Old Testament, as far as I could tell, was in the frailty of its heroes. You’ve got to appreciate a world religion that does not attempt to make the good guys look too good. Name some grotesque character trait of Barack Obama or Dolly Parton. You can’t. You know they’re probably jackasses in specific ways—we all are—but the official narrative won’t allow for it. Too much is at stake. Maybe Eleanor Roosevelt was secretly cruel to family pets. Albert Einstein probably had some weird mustard fetish. Tell me, where do we openly declare that even the greatest among us are
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