Monday, July 03, 2006
More Evidence of Superman as Jesus-Figure
From a recent issue of Wired magazine:
Now read Blaise Pascal's famous quote:
From that quote, Christians frequently talk about a God-shaped hole.
Pascal was correct. We long for what used to be and try to fill it. Some try to fill it with drugs. That longing sometimes manifests itself as comic book stories.
But ultimately, only God through Jesus can fill that void.
From a recent issue of Wired magazine:
Everyone knows the Superman story: rocketed to Earth from the distant planet Krypton just before it explodes, raised by a loving Kansas couple, possessing powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men, defends the city of Metropolis – and the world – from evil. His real-world origin is more humble: Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two Jewish kids from Cleveland, created him as a character in a newspaper comic strip. But the strip didn’t sell, so they reformatted it and flipped it to a publisher hungry to buy content for one of the first comic books. When the story appeared in the premiere issue of the anthology Action Comics, kids went crazy for it, as if there had always been a Superman-shaped hole in the world and it now was filled.
Now read Blaise Pascal's famous quote:
What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by God himself.
From that quote, Christians frequently talk about a God-shaped hole.
Pascal was correct. We long for what used to be and try to fill it. Some try to fill it with drugs. That longing sometimes manifests itself as comic book stories.
But ultimately, only God through Jesus can fill that void.
