God Loves, Man Kills...

[Flightpath07]

when you're looking at a group like the X-Men, whose major shtick is that they're an oppressed minority

I would partially disagree with this. The major shtick of the X-Men, and all mutants, is that they are mutants, mankind's next evolution, and that they are "products of evolution". As such, in many ways, everything about them stands opposed to the church, the Bible, and Christian beliefs.

[Flightpath07]

Here's a nice blog on the issue of Christianity (or the lack thereof) in mainstream comics.

I like that! Thanx!

[Le Messor]

Suzene - that post you linked to is actually everything I know about those issues. So I don't have to drive it from my head.

Legerd - good blog post, thanks.

Everyone - I posted before that I didn't want to start this conversation for fear of flame wars.
I still feel we're nowhere near one. At least, I feel like everyone on the other side from me has been polite and respectful. You judge for yourselves how I've been behaving.

Anyway, I'm quitting while we're ahead; as soon as this is posted, I'll unsubsribe from this thread.

Thank you for your thoughts.

- Mik
"Her artistic sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who can tell butter from I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter."
~ Barbara Collier, Garrett Park

[cmdrkoenig67]

BTW: Rahne/Wolfsbane is Presbyterian...Not Catholic.

Dana

[Legerd]

I must admit I found that phrase to be 'uncomfortable'. And I think you have nailed it on the head; in many ways, it does come across as an attack on Christianity, God, and Jesus.

I took it as more of a reference to cults like the Moonies who use love as a way to maintain control over their "congregation". The repetitiveness of "He loves you," reminded me of the brainwashing cults use to take control of the initiates.

[DelBubs]

I've been away for while so have joined this late. God Loves, Man Kills is probably one of my favourite X-Men stories of all time. Claremont captures every thing that the X-Men where about at that time. Quetioning what they were all about and what they actually they where trying to protect. Given the dross we get served up nowadays, this is way beyond cliched and will probably only seem cliched to those who always look for the bad without seeing the good.

Just an opinion