Comments on: Superman, Savior?

By: charmz

charmz — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 12:21:30 +0000

Jesus was born in a manjor….superman grew up on a farm…
both had surrogate parents…and both were sent to the earth…
the main resemblence is their consciousness – Christ’s morality is pure.

Supermans powers are very selective….i wonder why they gave him the powers that he has?? there must be a reason why the guy can burn things with his eyes……..

By: Wilson

Wilson — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:37:32 +0000

Yo anyone see superman returns? I loved that movie and i cant wait to pick up the dvd and game for xbox 360….i heard theres a code in the dvd that lets you play as bizzaro in the game, that should be pretty tight. Im lookin forward to gettin it at the end of the month.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:39:32 +0000

I am a Superman fan and I honestly don’t see that much of a parallel between the story of Christ (God) and Superman. The only similarities I can see are they both were “sent” to earth and both “save” people (but in very different ways).

Here are some great differences.

1. God sent his son to save mankind so we could have eternal life.
1. Jor-El sent his son to earth so he wouldn’t die when planet Krypton exploded, not to save people of earth.

2. Jesus tells people about himself and sacrifices himself on the cross so we can have eternal life.
2. Superman catches people falling from buildings, saves people from burning planes and stops Lex Luthor from taking over the world.

3. Jesus is indestructible. No one harmed him until he allowed himself to be killed on the cross, by his own choice.
3. Superman is vulnerable to Kryptonite.

4. Jesus’s mother was a virgin.
4. I assume he was Jor-El and his wife’s son.

5. Jor-El was a scientist on Krypton and was killed when Krypton exploded.
5. God is an omnipotent spirit and can’t be killed, or so I have heard…

6. The Pharisees and Saducees (church leaders) wanted to kill Jesus.
6. Everybody loves Superman and the only person that wants to see him dead is Lex Luthor.

By: Neal Saferstein

Neal Saferstein — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 01:54:47 +0000

Remeber what happen to John Lennon, when he started comparing the Beatles to Christ.

Neal Saferstein

By: Gary Marks

Gary Marks — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:39:23 +0000

I’ve always thought that the Shroud of Turin would make a great cape for Jesus. It’s not at all ostentatious.

By: Mr. H. Fusion

Mr. H. Fusion — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:50:12 +0000

#15, joshua, I think your post makes SO much sense, I like it. I give it a good probability for being smack on.

But I like #18, Geoff’s for its brevity, sharpness, and pointed innuendo.

By: Will

Will — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:17:14 +0000

The messianic aspects of the Superman story were topics of discussion quite some time ago, this is nothing new. In terms of his original powers he was virtually identical to the protagonist of Gladiator, as #9 mentioned. The pulp SF devices they added to their character change things, however, as does his name. He’s the Last Son of Krypton, sent from space (the heavens, if you will) to serve the forces of righteousness, and his birth name, Kal-El just happens to mean “Vessel of God” in Hebrew. You can’t convince me two Jewish kids named Siegel and Schuster didn’t plan that.I think Superman is a secularized image not of Jesus, but of the Jewish Messiah.The wish fulfillment fantasy of two boys on the eve of the Holocaust struck a nerve, and here we all are debating the meaning of a cartoon. I also have to add that Superman squeezing coal into a diamond beats water into wine easily:Pc

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:00:50 +0000

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

By: Awake

Awake — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:31:06 +0000

This whole talk about the Christ -> Superman relationship comes from a new movie trailer that is on some DVD’s, where Superman’s father says at the very end of the trailer, as his son is shipped off to earth, the words “And so I must send these beings my only son…”
Most trailers also include the statement by his father “Even though you are being raised as a human being you are not one of them”. And also “You have a mission.. to save them…”
Superman has deep qualms about being a saviour, but he considers thimslef one “He wrote that these people do not need a saviour, but every day I hear the people crying for one.”
All very Christ like, and of course, the voice that Superman hears (his father’s) is very God-Like.
To say nothing of the other minor similarities and allegories, such as
- Luther being a similar name to Lucifer
- The words in “Lois Lane” being separated by just one letter from “Mary Magdalene”, and also having repeating initials.
- Clark and Christ both start with the letter ‘C’

By: John Paradox

John Paradox — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 07:28:37 +0000

9: catbeller
Another predecessor to Superman was Doc Savage, the ‘Man of Bronze’ (as Kal El/Kal-L) is ‘the Man of Steel’. Funny, but Doc, though human and raised to the peak of physical and mental perfection from birth, also had a Fortress of Solitude (in the Arctic,too). He was in pulps in the early 1930′s – whereas Superman was in the late 1930′s.

J/P=?

By: joshua

joshua — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 06:31:34 +0000

this is sooooooooooo important.
I have to laugh, it seems the sudden Christ like attributes of Superman came about recently because there has been a bunch of publicity started by God only knows that the character is Gay. The studio got worried because of what happened with Brokeback Mountain(ignored by the favorite target audience of all studios, 14 to 20 y/o boys)….so this new angle was put out there by a studio hack PR guy to change the subject.
Personally, I go with the Gay theory over the Christ theory. How many Christ-like guys run around in form fitting blue tights with a cape?

By: Dozer

Dozer — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 05:45:55 +0000

just watch the trailer for the new movie. It sounds like pretty close to the story of why Jesus came to earth.

By: moss

moss — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:59:16 +0000

Rumplestiltskin.

By: Raff

Raff — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:18:37 +0000

Jesus.. robes and birkenstocks..

Superman.. tights and a cape…

round 1 jesus..

Jesus.. Can heal others..

Superman.. can bend steel with his bare hands..

round 2 Jesus…

Jesus… Can turn stick into snakes that eat other snakes..

Superman.. has x ray vision..

round 3 superman

Jesus.. son of God..

superman can fly…

round 4 superman..

Jesus can come back from the dead

Superman weakened by kryptonite

round 5 Jesus

Jesus can make water into wine..

Superman..

Jesus one minute thirty two seconds of the 6th round..

What a knock out…

well there ya have it Jim..

Maybe the next competitor should be Santa…

By: Mark T.

Mark T. — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:13:14 +0000

Wait a minute. I just heard that Superman was gay in his new movie! And, according to The DaVinci Code, Jesus ran off with Mary Magdalene and had kids. A gay Superman would never do that, now would he.

Superman = gay. Jesus = hetero. Vis-a-vis, Superman is not Jesus. Thanks for clearing that up, Hollywood!