[metmom]

Elsie:what [the saints] good for?

annalex:For veneration of them so that you be like them and possibly be saved, too.

Is there a problem with trying to be like Jesus that makes Catholics avoid it like the plague, and instead substitutes people to follow?

[annalex]

Is there a problem with trying to be like Jesus

Of course not. This is what the saints do; this is why we venerate them.