Daniel plays with Mexican history in an absolutely free way, paying no mind to who's supposed to be respected, which may not be a big deal here but apparently Mexicans are easily offended when someone doesn't venerate historical figures like Benito Juarez and friends.
The American philosopher Russell Kirk, for example, argued that libertarians "bear no authority, temporal or spiritual," and do not "venerate ancient beliefs and customs, or the natural world, or [their] country, or the immortal spark in [their] fellow men".
As a child, Mr. Felder attended a Hasidic yeshiva — Yeshiva Karlin Stolin — but he was ordained through Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, an ultra-Orthodox school congenial to the "black hat" or "yeshivish" movement: Jews who are as rigorous as the Hasidim but do not venerate particular grand rabbis.
One of the effects of the Reformation was to eliminate the abuses of the cult of saints, and as a result, it is a common misconception that Lutherans do not have (or rather, do not venerate) saints.
Thus, as St. John Damascene put it, "I do not venerate matter, I venerate the fashioner of matter, who became matter for my sake, and in matter made his abode, and through matter worked my salvation".
If, for love's sake, anyone does not kiss and venerate these images in a relative manner, not worshiping them as gods but as images of their archetypes, let him be anathema!
The poet does not conceal his intention of venerating the king, and, in the tradition of Javanese poetry, he may have begun it under the stimulus of pious meditation intended to bring him into contact with the divinity that was embodied in the king.
Being America's most venerated living writer does not, however, stop a person wanting to look good in pictures.
Buy and hold, that most venerated of investing dictums, does not work?
