Hero worship
What religion is your favorite comic book character? Here is an interesting list the explores the faith of superheroes, supervillians and other well-known comic characters.
As a Southern Baptist, I have only Rogue to look up to, and she's lapsed at that.
The most common religious affiliations of the heroes should be obvious: Catholic and Jewish. Many of the most well-known are simply generic Protestants (Spiderman, Captain America, Cyclops). Atheist are the most common villian, followed by Catholic and Jewish again.
HT: Ace.
Oh, I love this post. Nice one Aaron. How fun!
My favorite superhero is the Silver Surfer. here is what it says about him...
...Jack Kirby's Galactus and the Silver Surfer were inspired by the Christian story of God and the fall of Satan; Kirby just turned the story around. Galactus is an inverted God, destroying worlds instead of saving them, and the Surfer an inverted Satan, barred from the heavens for defying his master's will and saving the world...
Posted by: Cineaste | 16 June 2006 at 10:00 AM
Holy crap batman! That is a huge list. I have to admit that I never read comic books (I started with the books of E.B. White and never turned back to picture books ;), but I guess I never figured that there was such a huge comic book subculture. Silly me. Simply amazing.
Posted by: seeker | 16 June 2006 at 10:33 AM