Superheroes and God

[thebitterguy]

Anyway, while theweaselking was railing against the evils of Christianity, he mentioned this: The Super Heroes Bible.

According to the Zondervan website, "The NIrV Super Heroes Bible is packed with ordinary people zapped by God into super hero status."

Included in the Super Heroes Bible are "40 FULL-COLOR PAGES: action-packed illustrations by Dennis Jones. With metallic ink! "

"450 POWERSURGE notes: highlight Bible verses that show character traits, like “Brave,” “Truthful,” and “Wise.” Is "God will summon bears to eat the children that make fun of you" an available trait?

"66 BOOK INTRODUCTIONS: summarize the super hero impact of that book."

"More than 200 character sketches tell the stories of Bible men, women, and kids—from Genesis to Revelation—and will help kids ages 6 to 10 learn what it takes to be a hero of faith. (Some bad guys are in there, too!)" I wonder how awesome it would have been to get OHOTMU type entries for the book.

Seriously, if I'd had a Bible like this, and hadn't been sent to Catholic school where I learned that the church was populated with racists and hypocrites of the worst order, well, I probably would still be vaguely agnostic. But it still looks neat.

If that bores you, I got a website that lists comic book characters by their religions.

Hey, who knew Captain Canuck was a mormon?

Comments

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I don't know about the specific faith(s) of the Captains themselves(Evans, Oak or Semple), but Richard Comely was, last I checked in the news service coverage I've read over the years. Wish I could recall exactly where it popped up, but it was either the Toronto Star, the Ottawa Citizen, or both.

I'm pretty sure that Evans-1(from the original series) was devout in whatever he believes when his first book started, if memory serves.

[thebitterguy]

Apparently Alpha Flight was religious as a group, even though it was composed of Catholics, Jews, an Aboriginal Shaman and an Inuit demi-god.

I wonder if Marinna was Catholic?