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<\/a><\/div>\nToday superheroes seem to be a running theme. The children\u2019s talk at church focused on Batman. Then, various blogs touched on the intersection of religion and superheroes, comic books, etc<\/a>. <\/p>\n TheoFantastique focuses on gods that wear spandex<\/a>\u00a0and links to Christopher Knowles\u2019 post about religion and DragonCon<\/a>. Greenflame posted about religion and comic books<\/a> as well as linking<\/a> to an article on the SBL web site about video games and apocalyptic literature<\/a>.<\/p>\n As a footnote, the pastor\u00a0suggested in\u00a0an aside in his sermon that Batman is not technically a \u201csuperhero\u201d unless one considers being rich enough to buy and make really cool toys a \u201csuperpower.\u201d Whatever you think about that, you\u2019ll probably find the treatment of Batman\u2019s religious affiliation on the Adherents web site<\/a> interesting. If that\u2019s not enough, there\u2019s more on the site Comic Book Religion<\/a>, while Adherents also has a discussion of the Joker\u2019s religious background<\/a>.<\/p>\n Today superheroes seem to be a running theme. The children\u2019s talk at church focused on Batman. Then, various blogs touched on the intersection of religion and superheroes, comic books, etc. TheoFantastique focuses on gods that wear spandex\u00a0and links to Christopher Knowles\u2019 post about religion and DragonCon. Greenflame posted about religion and comic books as well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n