Religious Affiliation of Comic Book Super-heroes
June 24, 2006 | 5 Comments
This site compiled an extremely detailed and well researched list of comic book super-heroes and their associated religious affiliations. Fairly interesting to me that so many actually have affiliations. I’m also amazed at how well diversified the hero population seems to be.
As for Spider-Man/Peter Parker, I always felt as though he was protestant, but I couldn’t put a finger on it. Seeing all the evidence clearly laid out was an interesting viewing. The image included above comes from Amazing Spider-Man #494. “>The scene occurs as Peter and Mary Jane reunite after a temporary seperation. This scene strikes deeply for me considering the current talk that MJ may get killed in or as a result of Civil War. Personally I hope this doesn’t happen. Between The Other and deciding to unmask, Peter is going through enough.
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Religious Right Against RFID
March 26, 2006 | 4 Comments
In a recent Wired article titled, RFID: Sign of the (End) Times?, Katherine Albrecht’s stance against RFID is discussed. In short, she is a Christian who believes that RFID is the biblically foretold “mark of the beast” and in turn can be interpreted as the sign of the coming end of days.
I hate to find myself on the same side as someone I look at as a bit nutty, but who am I kidding, I’m just a few conspiracy theories away from wearing a tinfoil hat. Regardless of my distaste for her particular argument against RFID, hopefully it does ring true with the particularly political group of evangelical Christians who seem to have a stranglehold on the country at this point.
So if the leftist paranoid liberals hate RFID and the evangelical conservative right hate RFID, who’s out there pushing it on all of us? Oh yeah, big business…
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