Is Perfection Possible?

Says a reader: "Perfection, I believe, is a state of being."

Actually, wouldn't perfection be a state of non-being? A biography of Walt Disney ended with his death and the ironic remark that finally he (or at least his body) had found perfection. If something is inert, it is devoid of possibility-- anything more than what it can be, which would have to be an atom. Perhaps the reducability of that atom through fission or fusion into a mushroom cloud is the apotheosis of perfection. It is a grim throught that perhaps mankind will only reach perfection by being finally consumed in a sea of fire from a thousand mushroom clouds.

Another reader opines: "In reality, God is Perfect, so is His Law, so is His Book, so is His Envoy, so are His Law Enforcement Officers."

I'm not sure what your theology is, but it cannot be Christian. No such canonical claim is made that God is "perfect". To the contrary, we see an evolution of God from the polytheism of Genesis to the monothesism of the Old Testament to (what many Christians believe) is the Triniterianism of the New Testament and from an anthromorphic God that walks with some humans and smites others to a redemptive God that is the spirit or logos of the Greek testaments. That God's "law enforcement officers" (I assume you mean the clergy) are perfect makes no historical sense to me.

"You are right. It's not christian. I am a Muslim."

My apologies. Granting however that Allah, The Koran, and The Prophet are perfect, what is your warrant this "His Law Enforcement Officers" are perfect? Does perfection mean dogmatic correctness? And if so how does that differ from the perfection of the gods, holy writs, and officers of the Hindus?

"God said He perfected them and then ordered their utmost love and respect. His Law Enforcement Officers are perfect in that they never go against God's will. They have perfect knowledge of the Divine Law, and they implement it perfectly. If Hindus system has similiar perfection, then it is the same. Although I don't hear Hindus making such claims."

You haven't talked to enough Hindus. I grew up in Asia where I saw rampaging Hindus battle rampaging Buddhists, burning to the ground entire city blocks, because they claimed the perfection of their respective theisms. True believers-- fanatics-- populate and drive all mass movements be they religious or political. Those Hindus and those Buddhists along with the Christian crusaders of the Middle Ages and the 21st century and the Islamists that drove jets into skycrapers and strap dynamite to thir daughters are all brothers under the skin in that they have a cast of mind that cannot allow for the possibility that all value systems and god conceptions including their own are imperfect and defective and thus are subject to challenge and reformation.

Fanaticism will be the death of our planet, and, as I said in a previous post, perhaps the annhilation of humanity in a sea of nuclear fire will be a kind of ironic perfection.