so how are there churches in the MU?

[Shemtov]

i've been wondering how can there be churches in the MU with gods like thor, herc and Ares walking around in the street?
so, by asgard's shining halls, i doth did go googling.
and i found this article:
http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/Thor.html

Spoiler

basically it says most people believe thor and the rest are super heros whose shtick is that they are gods. i guess they think Loki is just a villain styling himself as the god of mischief. it also notes that thor and the asgardians believe there is a higher power then themselves "one to whom every knee must bend, and whose light outshines us all"
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[Overman27pj]

http://www.overman.info/Images/Misc/churchsignThor.jpg

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[The Geek Vault]

yeah I like how Ultimate thor has it, how he is thought to be crazy.

 

[BrianWilly]

Did you just make a thread to ask a question so that you could answer it yourself?

Don't get me wrong, I don't think it's bad, I'm just making sure.

 

[Shemtov]

no it was to previde the answer to anybody else wondering.
the thread is also for any other ideas people may have.

http://www.overman.info/Images/Misc/churchsignThor.jpg

were did this come from is it...real? how can it Be?

 

[Morg]

were did this come from is it...real? how can it Be?

read the words in the lower right corner, it's fake

 

[Paloogin]

I guess it would be easy to not think of the gods as gods. I mean as an onlooker, one super strong flying guy would be much the same to another. Part of me wouldn't be surprised though if somewhere in the MU there was a group of individuals who worshipped Galactus. I mean he's pretty God-like, especially for the more fire-and-brimstone worshippers.

Plus, if people believe something fully, it's very difficult to get them to believe otherwise, even with the most persuasive of reasoned arguments.

 

[Fantasyartist]

Why shouldn't THERE be churches in the MU??? Apropos of Thor and other mythological deities, they use the phrase "gods" in the sense of legendary beings NOT creatures seeking or demanding worship(which explains how the Slavic deity Perun can pop up in the notionally atheistical USSR in Captain America #251-52). Besides, several heroes/heroines are explicitly religious (Daredevil, Invisible Woman, Firebird) and even some villians( Venom I)!

Terry

 

[Mr. Green]

I like the Earth X explanation that they're alien shape shifters that take the form of what people believe them to be.

 

[Joker]

While the Norse and Greek gods exist, the Christian devil also exists, as does the Christian god (who looks like Jack Kirby). It's an Indiana Jones type situation, where all of these deitys seem to co-exist.

 

[The Question]

I like the Earth X explanation that they're alien shape shifters that take the form of what people believe them to be.

I like the explanation that they're gods.

 

[Lucien]

I like that they're actually gods. I'm glad that series like Inc. Hercules and Thor make a point of destinguishing them from other super powers in that respect.

One of the things I love about the Sandman is that gods are real and that they live and die by the faith and worship of them. Yet the Creator (the Christian God) is still the creator of everything and independant of that system.

 

[hippie_hunter]

It makes perfect sense for there to be churches in the MU. The Judeo-Christian-Islamic god exists in the Marvel Universe and there are people who choose to worship him.

 

[Mr. Green]

I like the explanation that they're gods.

Why? Gods can't be ****ed with. Thor gets his ass beat with his own hammer by Rulk. It just doesn't make sense.

 

[BrianWilly]

That happens to gods in real myths (oxymoron, yes) all the time. They have to fight monsters and they don't always win. Especially the Norse gods who aren't even completely immortal.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, it's perfectly logical for the Norse gods to be killable. They're the gods of a society who values courage in battle more than anything else. Fighting when you can't be harmed doesn't require courage, so how would the Norse peoples even respect their own gods if they were totally immortal?

 

[Mr. Green]

The same way Christians, Jews, and Muslims respect their God?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

The Norse religion worked differently. I don't know what else to tell you. A peaceful afterlife was for *****es, as far as the Vikings were concerned. They fought 'til they died and if they died fighting they got to go to Valhalla to talk about fighting before ultimately fighting some more at Ragnarok as the Einherjar. If their gods couldn't die, they couldn't risk anything in a fight and they couldn't be true warriors, ergo no respect.

 

[Mr. Green]

Ergo, Norse people were ******ed.

 

[BrianWilly]

The same way Christians, Jews, and Muslims respect their God?

The Abrahamic God is, by far, the exception in world religion instead of the norm.

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

Lets not forget the Church of Zadkiel who has hot nuns in skimpy Nurse uniforms working for him.

 

[Aztec]

The easiest answer is of course that there is no god....but I'll keep that to myself.

As to Thor, he's a super powered being from a parallel universe. You can liken him to Superman if you like. No religious entanglements necessary.

 

[Mr. Green]

The Abrahamic God is, by far, the exception in world religion instead of the norm.

Yeah, what kind of sense would it make that the creator of all life would be trillions of times more powerful than the organisms it has created?

 

[BrianWilly]

What sense? It's religion.

Take it up with every single polytheism in the world.

 

[Iceburgeruk]

Ergo, Norse people were ******ed.

Ergo norse people kicked ass, actually. I don`t know about you but my version of heaven would include at least a portion of fighting and wenching.