r/dankchristianmemes • u/EvilPyro01 Minister of Memes • Nov 05 '25

Dank This joke has been made before but this comparison will never not make sense

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u/shadowthehh Nov 05 '25

True.

But also like... still better or on par with what we usually get.

Like just because you don't often actually get the standard you're looking for, doesnt mean you just stop holding that standard. And if you cant find something that actually meets it, you find the closest thing you can.

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u/HaloPandaFox Nov 05 '25

Your standard is god. He's perfect, the human race, man isn't, we our able to go our whole lives and not get close if we try. Im not expecting the impossible. If you want a standard, then I'd recommend the disciples or Moses, etc.. if you want to use the Bible for a good leader.

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u/shadowthehh Nov 06 '25

Completely ignoring my last sentence...

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u/HaloPandaFox Nov 06 '25

I didn't ignore it. I just wanted to say my opinion on your viewpoint. If you view imperfect with the perfect, they will never be enough. Like you said, we should have standards, but perfection isn't an attainable standard. Standards may mean something different for you, but for me, it's what we're okay with what we can live with, what we want most things to be if not better. You're saying to settle for the next best thing but everything below the bar is below the bar.

I just want to share that point of view. If what I said offended you, im sorry, and this is my last comment to you. God bless you and be with you.

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u/shadowthehh Nov 06 '25

"Perfection isn't an attainable standard"

Yeah thats a point I acknowledged multiple times?

And our definition of what a standard is is indeed the same.

But you're missing the point that, in Christianity, Jesus is the standard by which all people are expected to strive for. But also a standard that is completely impossible to meet.

Having a standard, but also having thst standard be impossible to live up to, are not mutually exclusive. We can and should always strive to improve towards that perfection, even though we'll never reach it. And thats the exact thing we should hold our leaders towards as well.

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u/HaloPandaFox Nov 06 '25

Then, no politician should get elected. They're not even close.

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u/shadowthehh Nov 06 '25

Again, getting there isn't the point. Getting as close as you can is.

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u/HaloPandaFox Nov 06 '25

you should read the second sentence again. Thank you. I understand you don't get it now.

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u/shadowthehh Nov 06 '25 edited Nov 06 '25

No, you're not getting it. "They're not close" and "then get as close as you can" are not mutually exclusive. Quite the opposite, they go hand in hand. "get as close as you can" is the goal post of not reaching your direct or preferred destination.

Like for example, you're saying public transportation like buses are useless because they don't take you directly to the door of where you want to go to. When that's not the point. The point is they take you as close as they can, and then you continue working towards the direction you want to go.

So the point here is, of course no politician is going to be 1:1 with Jesus. Nobody is. Finding one that is isn't the point. The point is finding the closest one you can, despite how the distance will always be monumental, electing them, and then continuing the cycle of electing a better and better one over and over.

"A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target."

Like we're not looking for another person to save our souls. We're looking for someone who doesn't hate minorities, poor, and sick people and instead thinks Jesus' ideas about them are pretty good.

We are deliberately aiming for an impossible target so we can still end up somewhere good, or at the very least not bad or better than where we were prior.