Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Saints And Sinners and What Makes A Hero?

I was thinking about this all day at work. How many characters and people in real life are labeled either a saint or a sinner? I hate how society sometimes dictates who is good and who is bad and not by what the person does.
Here's some thoughts on some of my favorite characters that would be labeled as sinners.
Davis Bloome: Davis was out killing people. These people were rapists and murderers themselves and they did other terrible things. Sure Davis was wrong to kill them, but on the other hand. How many people did Davis save? How many people weren't raped and killed because he killed those people? Talk about a gray area here. I'm sure Davis would be considered a hero to the people he saved, but then he's bad because he killed those people. What's right and what's wrong? Is it right that murderers sit in jail for their whole lives at our expense and then get executed or die. A lot of them get out to kill again. Look at rapists, most of them get about 5 years and then they go and rape again.

Dan Scott and his brother Keith Scott: Dan is the big sinner because he killed his brother in cold blood. Dan thought his brother tried to kill him and he had good reason to think it, but he found out it was his wife Deb. Did Deb get punished for trying to kill Dan? Not as far as I could see. Keith slept with Deb, so he committed adultery. What's worse killing or adultery? It doesn't say in the bible that one is worse than the other, so who's the sinner and who's the saint. Keith is treated like a saint, even after he's dead. Dan is treated like a sinner and an outcast. Here's where society comes in to play. Adultery is a crime, but there are so many people doing it, no one enforces it. So is it right? I don't think so.
If Dan hadn't done what he did, maybe he wouldn't have been around to save Jamie later. He saved Jamie twice from the psycho nanny. Dan is trying to make amends for what he's done and God is giving him the chance to do it, by not letting him die.

Chuck Bass: My rotten little womanizer and drug user. Is Chuck a saint or a sinner or both? Chuck has hurt other people by what he's done, but mostly he's hurt himself. Chuck has a sweet heart under all his bravado and bull crap. What he's done for Blair at times, makes you want to cry. Also, I think Chuck has been a good big brother to Eric. Chuck has been a hero, but not in the typical sense. He's been a hero in the most subtle ways.

Sam and Dean Winchester: Are either or both of them a saint or a sinner. People think Sam is such a big rotten sinner for sleeping with a demon and drinking demon blood. I don't see anywhere in the bible that says, that's a sin. People sleep with all kinds of people and don't care. Married people and just sleep around and not care who they're sleeping with. So why would God think worse of Sam for sleeping with a demon. Dean has slept with tons of women and just for the sex. He's had threesomes and God only knows what. So is he any better than Sam because he didn't sleep with a demon or a werewolf. Who knows what Dean has slept with? Does he even know. Dean sold his soul to a demon, but he was selfless and noble. Sam went to kill a demon with abilities that are from who knows where? He was selfish and proud. I don't get it. Both Sam and Dean have done some horrible and good things. They've both been heroes and they've both been sinners.

Clark Kent: Poor Clark. I love him and I don't think he's either a saint or a sinner because he's from another planet. What's wonderful about Clark is that he does try to be a better human, than most humans on the planet? He tries to save everyone that he can because he's got these powers and he can use them to help people. On the other hand people and creatures come looking for him and try to kill him and people get hurt or killed in the crossfire. Clark's friend Green Arrow is a human. He's been treading on the side of sinner more than saint, lately. Green Arrow still knows that saving people is the no. 1 priority, though.

So who is a saint and who is a sinner?
I think the word hero has a definition. Someone is only a hero to the person that the hero saved. Who knows how you can be saved? Physically, mentally and emotionally. There's a lot of ways to be saved and who knows who your hero is or how they will save you.