Pete Holmes and Stuff

 I was re-watching the YouTube clip of Pete Holmes and Whitney Cummings, and for some reason I decided to Google Pete Holmes himself. As usual, I gravitated towards his Wikipedia entry first, and was surprised to find we had a lot in common. And by a lot I mean that he started out as a Christian, but his Christianity 'devolved.' I'm reading a CNN article about him now.

The interviewer asked him if he felt like he had to defend the Bible before, and he said yes. He said because of that he had to turn a blind eye to other things. Like how Jesus said "the system is a lie." My first thought was that isn't exactly true. My second is that it's overstatement. I would say that Jesus believes in the system, much in the same way progressives do. The fact that he critiqued it didn't mean he didn't believe it. In fact, he critiqued it because he believed in it. He wanted it to be better.

Which brings me to the thought that made me want to blog in the first place. We are getting to the point where some of us are very tolerant of others faults. There are still areas that promote a zero-tolerance culture, but not everyone. But we tend to have higher standards when it comes to systems. Systems can fail the same way people do. In fact, the whole thing about failure is that successful people do it all the time. How many TED talks have I heard about that? That was the main takeaway I was supposed to get from West Point. I'm going to fail, so I need to learn how to handle it. But what about systems, that are composed of fallible human beings? They are going to fail too, so where do we draw the line? And there is a line. Too much failing means that the system is in fact a failure, but where do you draw the line?

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Oh, and somewhere there was mention of Rob Bell. I think on Wikipedia. I need to watch that documentary.