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I have no serious message whatsoever for today, except perhaps we need to lighten up for a minute or so. We’ve been really heavy here the last fortnight or so, as we should have been.
So sit back and enjoy, from Hans Fiene, the creator of Lutheran Satire, via The Federalist.
Batman’s an atheist now, you guys. Well, not exactly. After suffering a bit of an existential crisis, Bruce Wayne is questioning his faith in anything, not just the Triune God.
The Caped Crusader is more of a Doubting Descartes than a Determined Dawkins these days. Or, as Rich Cromwell put it, Batman is not so much an atheist as he is a slightly-more-lapsed-than-your-average Episcopalian.
So if the revelation about Batman’s lack of faith makes you fear that your children can no longer look up to a fornicating, spandex-wearing, deranged vigilante, don’t be afraid. Until Batman trades in the cowl for a fedora, he’s still the perfect role model for your seven-year-old.
Batman’s newfound lack of faith raises an interesting question: what do the rest of the folks in comic book land believe? Aside from pious Catholics like Nightcrawler and Daredevil (to whatever extent vigilantes can be pious Catholics), religious devotion is not a common feature of today’s superheroes, at least in their cinematic and small-screen forms.
So what do our various heroes and villains believe about God and salvation? What kind of monotheist is Captain America? What gods does the god of Thunder worship?
If you’re looking for an accurate list of comic book characters’ religious affiliations, check out this website, where we learn that Lois Lane is Catholic and Captain Underpants is Jewish. If, however, you’re looking for completely un-researched, slightly offensive, and wildly inaccurate speculation about the religious beliefs of various characters based on their biographies and personality quirks, I’m here to help.
Here are the religious affiliations of your favorite superheroes and super-villains.
All Along the Watchtower 
Gee, I would’ve been sure that Captain Underpants would have been a Mormon. I’m shocked.
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I was a bit surprised by a few of them!
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Hulk is funny. The issue I have with Onepeterfive blog is that it reminds me of Hulk in Thor 3 or Planethulk, basically locked into the Hulk and no Bruce Banner in sight. I could agree with much of what they say until I read the comments filled with disparage Pope John Paul II out of context.
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I must admit, that though I supported JPII during his papacy, there are may anomalies surrounding his term as Pope: Assisi, the kissing of the Koran, being marked with the ‘eye of the tiger’ the lack of prosecutions of predators and apostate theologians, the support for Opus Dei etc. His response was weak in responding to many of the problems we face today.
I also have a problem concerning the recent battle we had about JPII’s encyclical concerning valid elections as Pope. What good is it to write what is perfectly clear to the average person to simple be dismissed by the Code of Canon Law as inadmissible. What takes precedent here? The words of an encyclical from a declared saint of the Church or the 1983 Code of Canon Law. Seems to me that if they were in conflict, JPII should have fixed that problem and maybe we wouldn’t be finding loopholes in the law to release us from the straight forward comments that JPII made concerning valid elections. In that sense, JPII helped to create the confusion we now find ourselves in.
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I think we have to be fair with our criticisms. The Assisi affair was a mistake. In regards to kissing the Koran; he was given gifts which he was told that it was custom to kiss the objects, no one is sure if he knew what was the object. In regards to Sexual Abuse, as exhibited in recent news, after 2002 the cases have slowed dramatically during JP II’s papacy. Of course, also, he was fairly old at the time.
So, critique has to be fair and I don’t see it being dealt with constructively in that site. And at times it’s out of left field.
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O I can get fairer and go back to the days when JPII was rater a young Pope. Let us count some of the predators that he was well aware of: Bernardin, Weakland, Ryan, Hubbard, Russell etc.
My only defense for him was that he was afraid, as in centuries past, to not disclose our dirty laundry and to keep our business to ourselves. However the question still remains; what did he do about it. All of these prelates were esteemed in the press and thanked for their service to the Church. The covering up by the Popes has a longer history than we are likely comfortable in admitting.
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True and all fair. But the culture I think was well established even in the beginning of his papacy. What I think is a big problem in the Church is the selection of Bishops. Popes are often given list of men they vaguely known and he has to select based on hearsay reputations.
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Of course we don’t know that which we don’t know. It used to be that they could depend on the nuncio’s and their recommendations were usually taken as the contenders (affidavits supplied on each). Sadly, king makers evolved and got the ears of the Pope’s and they often carried more weight than the nuncios. It’s a bad system and it is become totally corrupted.
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Some more of the good pastor’s work.
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I used to love Batman.
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Did you dump him for Pennywise?
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I dumped him for my current fiancée…Flicka.
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Looks like good brother Whorul or Wehrul or how ever you spell his name has gone into hiding.The attorney general is talking RICO laws. He has no plans of spending time in prison. Rumors have it that he is gonna escape to the Vatican where he can live his life in luxury,free from the American police. Just like cardinalLaw. The Vatican welcomes them with open arms. Job well done.
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