Shit yeah. Hody was a very well written character. I thought so. Even the way his nuances apply to elements later in the story.
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The Ancient Kingdom shares the same beliefs that Whitebeard and Zeff and everyone else who said things like, "A spear that comes from a person's heart is unstoppable" (paraphrasing) did. You are only misguiding yourself if you believe otherwise.
Whitebeard, Luffy, Zeff, and everyone else who stood their ground against an unfair circumstance in the world shares the same beliefs the Ancient Kingdom does. That's how the story is portrayed. I don't want to be too much of a bore about it but it's fairly obvious that is what the story is about. The Ancient Kingdom has every "right" belief that there could be. Every meaningful event in the story is involved with it.
Everybody who is WRONG in the story shares beliefs that don't align with people like Whitebeard, Zeff, or Luffy, and practically everything RIGHT relates to the Ancient Kingdom.