Before I begin this little debate over who of the top two "S" titled comic book characters is more relate able to any children when asking about relating those heroes to Religion, Does anyone remember this
from a set of blogs I entitled "Why do I love spider-man over any other comicbook character?", please check them out when you wish they are in the 2008 reading list. Let me ask you a very simple question that without a doubt may have a lot of answers or maybe not a one at all. "Have you ever sat down and thought how much pop culture helps little kids understand things a lot more easily, when trying to share about important subject matters? Like for example when relating to a child on their level of understanding on matters of change for a period of time on something like "We are going to be moving soon to a new home, and you'll get lots of new experiences to meet new people and make new friends" of course a kid being a kid "WILL PUT UP SOME KINDA FIGHT IN THIS AREA OR at LEAST I DID anyway, now though looking back on it I wonder why?". So let say your talking to children about GOD'S WORD better known as the BIBLE how do you relate the promises of the LORD'S goodness of virtue when talking about GOOD vs EVIL?, I think the best way would be to asking the child if they know a person that they call a hero if they do say my father or mother and even some other family member applaud them for looking at their mentors as their character builders of life. If they completely ignore your question altogether try using this tact "Okay then if not your real world relationships how about your everyday four colored world of comic book superheroes character?, most would say this fella shown here:
,well the one most people are familiar is the one on the left side of the title of the story called ol' Green Skin, both are part of the man known as Bruce Banner and children will tell you of their rage mostly if not it being all time. Which this is great for relating to misunderstandings of evils like we all do more than not! Then you ask the same question again about "Which SUPER HERO of those comics BEST represents a closeness to you and the heavenly father and his son known as JESUS? It may take a moment or two but, more than likely it will boil down to these two
.Well earlier this morning I was some how thinking about that said question myself while listing to K-LOVE and in a news bit they said of children polled on this very question were asked of it most of them would choose get this not the one you'd bethinking of Which would be in truth SUPERMAN, Right? well think of his story for a minute HE is sent from his dying planet called KRYPTON by HIS FATHER to a new home called EARTH? to help us mere humans know of the "POWER OF RESPECT of "ANY OUTSIDER" has love for everyone, this here sounds like GOD'S word of what happens to those who follow his SON'S teachings of understanding LOVE will be rewarded with" EVER LASTING LIFE". /span> Surprisingly though more kids can relate to ol' Spidey more so than the "MAN OF STEEL" one of Superman's better known nicknames, here is a couple of panels
that I have shown here before of how Peter Parker relates to the man known as GOD these are from PETER PARKER SPIDER-MAN Volume 2 issue # 48. Stan Lee, Peter Parker's creator has always maintained that when he started with Timely Comics/Marvel he himself nor any of the other writers or artists really ever felt the need to put into focus a message of Religious overtones into any of the characters that they created so very long ago. I am sure though that even that still holds true for comic story telling at Marvel, it by NO MEANS DOESN'T make the average comic book reader whether old or young at least a tad bit curious of what the personal faith of their super hero is? A few years ago I was sorta wondering this very question myself not so much of narrowing it down to just two comic book superheroes but out of all of them how do superheroes relate to Religion if they even do at all? I was out at the local Tri Cities PARABLE CHRISTIN BOOKSTORE looking for yet another thing altogether I am sure it was a copy of a Chris Rice CD the one with my favorite song of all that gives me peace when thing of the almighty GOD. When instead I found this
, inside is a Real treasure trove of what you can NEVER find out of your inner hero whomever they are? I am sure that there are other type of books like this out there but none get to the truth of the matter more than this one. So who of Superman or Spider-man are more tied to understanding within any religious circle is , Spider-man but are there websites that tell you the faith of any superheros in the sense of which denomination that they are personally a part of? Yes there is at least one and here is the link to it Religion of Characters, search all fields for: Peter_Parker (characters 101 up to 150) , what is also very neat about this said site is that they also have religious beliefs of all comics supporting cast as well as the many Jokers or Green Goblins you wanna find out about it has them as well the every loving villains view on Religion too.
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