Fr. Barron on the Avengers and Whedonesque Nietzscheanism

I think he’s spot on.

What’s fascinating to me is how Whedon’s philosophy is locked in struggle with his art. His muse is often wiser than his head. So he imposes on his stories his vision of a Manichaean universe in which good and evil forever at way with no hope of truly transcending that struggle–and then creates characters who experience the invasion of grace, repentance, and redemption. He is larger than his atheism: something that often occurs with honest artists. It’s a reason for hope, I reckon.