Yeshua-Knight wrote:...i never pegged wolvie to be a buddhist though, i mean, granted, he just uses his hands to fight, but i have yet to see him toting prayer beads with him
Yeshua-Knight wrote:yeah, between her and lady deathstrike, i tell ya i don't know of any other superhero with as many ties to japan as he does, i don't think even the silver samurai himself has as many
..which makes me wonder...
what is wolverine's favorite anime?
.....prolly hamtaro or somethin' like that
Warrior 4 Jesus wrote:Funny how there are only two Lutheran Superheroes. Maybe they didn't like the change? (lol)
Rexman64 wrote:I wonder what religion Thor is?
bigsleepj wrote:Although I found the site interesting, I found a majority of some super-hero characters' beliefs to be superficial at best, even the non-Christian lot. Off course those whose powers are based on a belief-system (like the Voodoo-heroes) are a different matter, but overall even the Buddhists are very dry in the respect of the depiction of their beliefs. This however sometimes is the result of decades of different writers giving different spins on the characters.
And another problem is that sometimes the person's beliefs is used in a sensationalistic sense, as if to give some sort of 'kick' to some oddballs. For instance the confessor character who uses "exploding rosary beads" and tells his victims "I will absolve you of your sins."
Edit: That said, I'm not really dumping on the comics and super-heroes as a whole (I love reading these stories), its just that I'm not fond of the idea that (a) a character's beliefs are controlled by whim of whatever writer is assigned to him and (b) that sometimes the basics of these characters' beliefs are not understood by the people writing it, even if they don't have an axe to grind with this belief.
Yeshua-Knight wrote:as i understand it, most anime characters, simply due to various abilities that they seem to demonstrate, would be buddhist, either that or atheist
Tom Dincht wrote:Notice how there is no Christian group.
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