I both like and dislike him. I dislike him because he exemplifies what my cousins and some other pagans call "fluffy-bunny mentality"-- practicing religion for show, to get a rise out of other people, for the shock effect, rather than in the hopes of attaining spiritual wellbeing. However, this is a product of what I like in him: his boldness. I understand why he was like this: he was a man who wanted to rock the boat, so to speak. He had the guts not only to chose a path completely different than the prevalent religion of his time, but to to take it so far that it actually sparked an entire movement. The problem is that in the attempt to achieve this, he did some terrible things: sacrificed cats, for example, supposedly to see if they truly had 9 lives.
