Once a great poet was asked, "Your poetry is beautiful but it is full of contradictions. Do you have something to say about the contradictions?" The poet said " I am vast enough to have contradictions in me".
You have to understand that Life is vast enough, it can exist with all the contractions in it, in fact it cannot live without contradictions.
Whenever you think to thank, thank the quality not the man. Be grateful to his transformation but don't become addicted to his formal body.