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booster11373

06-15-2006, 10:10 AM

Ron and Fez did an awesome bit on this years ago.<table cellspacing="3" cellpadding="5" width="450" border="0"><tr><td class="chartname" colspan="4">Popular Comic Book Heroes Faith-by-Faith</td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><img src="http://images.beliefnet.com/imgs/tout/story/comicfaith.jpg" border="0" /></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td class="header">Given Name</td><td class="header">Affiliation</td><td class="header">Faith (click for more information)</td></tr><tr><td class="header2">Superman</td><td>Clark Kent / Kal-El</td><td>Justice League</td><td><a href="http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/Superman.html" target="_new">Methodist / Kryptonian</a></td></tr><tr><td class="header2">Wolverine</td><td>Logan</td><td>X-Men</td><td><a href="http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/Wolverine.html" target="_new">Former Atheist, Known to Practice Buddhism, Believes in God</a></td></tr><tr><td class="header2">Captain America</td><td>Steve Rogers</td><td>Avengers</td><td><a href="http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/CaptainAmerica.html" target="_new">Protestant</a></td></tr><tr><td class="header2">The Thing</td><td>Ben Grimm</td><td>Fantastic Four</td><td><a href="http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/Thing.html" target="_new">Jewish</a></td></tr><tr><td class="header2">Phoenix</td><td>Jean Grey</td><td>X-Men</td><td><a href="http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/Jean_Grey.html" target="_new">Episcopalian</a></td></tr><tr><td class="header2">Batman</td><td>Bruce Wayne</td><td>Justice League</td><td><a href="http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/Batman.html" target="_new">Episcopalian / Catholic (Lapsed)</a></td></tr><tr><td class="header2">Shadowcat</td><td>Kitty Pryde</td><td>X-Men</td><td><a href="http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/Shadowcat.html" target="_new">Jewish</a></td></tr><tr><td class="header2">Wonder Woman</td><td>Diana of Themyscira </td><td>Justice League</td><td><a href="http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/WonderWoman.html" target="_new">Greco-Roman Classical Religion</a></td></tr><tr><td class="header2">Spider-Man</td><td>Peter Parker</td><td>Avengers</td><td><a href="http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/SpiderMan.html" target="_new">Protestant</a></td></tr><tr><td class="header2">Nightcrawler</td><td>Kurt Wagner</td><td>X-Men</td><td><a href="http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/Nightcrawler.html" target="_new">Catholic</a></td></tr></table> heres the source of this wonderment<a href="http://www.beliefnet.com/features/comicbookfaith.html" target="_self">http://www.beliefnet.com/features/comicbookfaith.html</a>

Furtherman

06-15-2006, 10:13 AM

Magneto is jewish.

booster11373

06-15-2006, 10:17 AM

Furtherman wrote: Magneto is jewish. I think you meant Dirty Jew

Furtherman

06-15-2006, 10:33 AM

booster11373 wrote: Furtherman wrote: Magneto is jewish. I think you meant Dirty JewThat would be Jackie Mason.  Ya know, he tells dirty jokes.

JustJon

06-15-2006, 10:39 AM

The link/list above was taken from a much larger list (linked on teh page)<a href="http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/comic_book_religion.html" target="_blank">http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/comic_book_religion.html </a>

EliSnow

06-15-2006, 10:45 AM

Furtherman wrote: Magneto is jewish. There's contradictory proof on that isn't there, or has Marvel stated definitively?  At first he was a gypsy among the gypsy familes killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust.  At one point, they said he was Jewish (and I believe he is in the movies), I'm just not sure what the final answer is.

Furtherman

06-15-2006, 10:48 AM

I guess you are right... he could be a gypsy.  I thought in the first X-Men movie he had one of the stars the Nazis made the jewish population wear.

kdubya

06-15-2006, 11:10 AM

What about Green Arrow, I would say an atheist, but wasn't he brought back form hell or something, so maybe not. I would also say Mr. Fantastic is an atheist because of the scientist thing. Cyclops is a good red blooded protestant boy. Prof X, Buddhist, just because of the hair-do. Guy Gardner, former catholic Booster Gold, Scientologist Yorrick Brown, Agnostic

EliSnow

06-15-2006, 11:17 AM

Furtherman wrote: I guess you are right... he could be a gypsy.  I thought in the first X-Men movie he had one of the stars the Nazis made the jewish population wear. I think in the movies he is supposed to be Jewish.  In the comics, he could be Jewish as well, although at first, they said he was a gypsy.  I'm just not sure what official Marvel canon says right now on this issue.

Furtherman

06-15-2006, 11:18 AM

If you are listening to the O&A Replay.... What religion would Naked Guy be?

EliSnow

06-15-2006, 11:20 AM

kdubya wrote: What about Green Arrow, I would say an atheist, but wasn't he brought back form hell or something, so maybe not. Green Arrow was dead and in heaven.  <blockquote dir="ltr" style="margin-right: 0px">I would also say Mr. Fantastic is an atheist because of the scientist thing. You would think except for a recent trip to heaven that the Fantastic Four made to bring Ben Grimm back from the dead.  There they met God who looked remarkably like Jack Kirby.  [/quote]

JustJon

06-15-2006, 12:04 PM

Furtherman wrote: If you are listening to the O&A Replay.... What religion would Naked Guy be?   Depends, he clipped or unclipped? <a href="http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/Magneto.html" target="_blank">And Magneto is Jewish</a>

EliSnow

06-15-2006, 12:29 PM

JustJon wrote:  Furtherman wrote: If you are listening to the O&A Replay.... What religion would Naked Guy be?   Depends, he clipped or unclipped? <a href="http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/Magneto.html" target="_blank">And Magneto is Jewish</a> I just skimmed the page quickly, but doesn't it basically say that most likely Magneto is jewish, and may have been intended to be jewish, but that there are conflicting viewpoints or information about this point?

Sheeplovr

06-15-2006, 12:36 PM

Excusme but superman is catholic most super heros arewhy? cause you cant be a hero if your a evangelical Protestant simply how do you be a hero if you defi the absultute truth of the bibleHe is a catholic Raisedo n strong catholic morals he was a alterboy dammit not a evangelical catholic but a catholic dammit

Furtherman

06-15-2006, 12:48 PM

So there was a Kryptonian Jesus?You think he would have mentioned that the planet was going to blow up at some point.Half-assed savior!

furie

06-15-2006, 04:37 PM

i thought magneto was jewish and married to a gypsy.

Coach

06-15-2006, 09:19 PM

Spiderman is Jewish...at least from a comic I saw where he lighted the minora (spelling?)

tele7

06-15-2006, 09:25 PM

<img src="http://digilander.libero.it/tibemaj/45/venus_and_mars_fr.jpg" border="0" />Jewish? Magneto was mad, Titanium too...

Coach

06-15-2006, 09:27 PM

EliSnow wrote: Furtherman wrote: I guess you are right... he could be a gypsy.  I thought in the first X-Men movie he had one of the stars the Nazis made the jewish population wear. I think in the movies he is supposed to be Jewish.  In the comics, he could be Jewish as well, although at first, they said he was a gypsy.  I'm just not sure what official Marvel canon says right now on this issue.I am pretty sure he was a Jew, (he was just out of an extermination camp when Xavier met him)  and married a gypsy "witch" Scarlet Witch not only is a mutant but has magical abilities as does Quicksilver although they were latent in him....I seem to recall a comic which recounts the twins being sent to safety by a half cow/half human nanny. (Ps. Xavier is a W.A.S.P.)

This message was edited by Coach on 6-16-06 @ 1:31 AM

JustJon

06-16-2006, 08:37 AM

Magneto was intended to be Jewish when created.  In the early 90s, editorial didn't like the whole Jew married to the Gypsy, so they made him gypsy too.  This was retconned into the gypsy thing being a ruse.  It was in the link above.