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In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus
RE: In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus
(May 16, 2025 at 12:29 pm)The Architect Of Fate Wrote:
(May 16, 2025 at 12:15 pm)Alan V Wrote: To me superhero movies seem a lot like professional wrestling: superheroes fighting super-villains, but with special effects.

I enjoy them anyway.  Taking them too seriously misses the point altogether.

Come to think of it, superhero movies are very similar to religions too: superheroes fighting super-villains.

Yes there is a professional wrestling element to it and indeed overthinking them takes away from the fun I won't deny that but there are messages there and I think good ones

Movies generally have messages or themes, though they vary from movie to movie.  I'm not so sure that superhero movies as a genre have an over-arching message common to all.  They just have narrative similarities for their genre.  For instance, "it takes a superhero to fight a super-villain" isn't really a message per se, at least IMO.

Superheroes and super-villains having fistfights is just one among many forms of conflict to drive a story forward.  The good guy wins, the bad guy wins (back and forth with rising stakes), until the good guy wins.

In Christianity, the fate of the world and the future state of human souls are said to depend on Jesus winning -- those are just ways to raise the stakes in the story, to make it engaging.

The Gospels were early fan-fiction.  People attending churchs are living in their imaginations, just like many other people do in different and more obvious ways.
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RE: In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus - by Alan V - May 16, 2025 at 3:19 pm

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