Nepenthes
Superhero
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Batman is the embodiment of athiest humanism, which rejects divine intervention in human affairs, but can accept a a higher intellignece responsible for creating the (multi)universe and its laws.
Batman would not be doing what he does to such extremes if he believed in an active God. He's all about the power of the mere mortal to affect our course for the greater good, along with the bittersweet nature and the limitations of the human condition. He symbolises raw human perseverance and natural talent, in contrast to sumbissions to inhuman deities and supernatural forces or relaince on technological modifications (e.g. Superman, Green Lantern, the Flash).
In regards to Spidey, Cap or any other hero, I don't think any individual who has travelled to other dimensions, encountered aliens, ghosts, gods and supreme beings such as celestials, Beyonders or The Endless will be ready to accept an Earth religion to the standard that their fellow adherants would accept. Depending on which denomination you ask...they myths are literal or metaphor, other dimensions exist, or they don't, god intervenes, or he dosn't etc.
The heroes will simply accept that they don't know jack, that various supreme beings create and influence realms all over the place, and that one being or force was possibily responsible for the whole deal. How their experiances will influence what particular set of Earth myths and customs they choose to let form meaning in their lives...is harder to determine. But it dosn't matter. Basically they accept that their Earth religion cannot be 100%correct in explaining the world....but they celebrate the power of the stories and rituals to create community and a sense of meaning and well-being.
Batman would not be doing what he does to such extremes if he believed in an active God. He's all about the power of the mere mortal to affect our course for the greater good, along with the bittersweet nature and the limitations of the human condition. He symbolises raw human perseverance and natural talent, in contrast to sumbissions to inhuman deities and supernatural forces or relaince on technological modifications (e.g. Superman, Green Lantern, the Flash).
In regards to Spidey, Cap or any other hero, I don't think any individual who has travelled to other dimensions, encountered aliens, ghosts, gods and supreme beings such as celestials, Beyonders or The Endless will be ready to accept an Earth religion to the standard that their fellow adherants would accept. Depending on which denomination you ask...they myths are literal or metaphor, other dimensions exist, or they don't, god intervenes, or he dosn't etc.
The heroes will simply accept that they don't know jack, that various supreme beings create and influence realms all over the place, and that one being or force was possibily responsible for the whole deal. How their experiances will influence what particular set of Earth myths and customs they choose to let form meaning in their lives...is harder to determine. But it dosn't matter. Basically they accept that their Earth religion cannot be 100%correct in explaining the world....but they celebrate the power of the stories and rituals to create community and a sense of meaning and well-being.
