Super. Man. I suppose I could stop there. Those two words sum up so much of what I’m about to say about the Man of Steel that it’s almost hard to start.
And yet, there are two other words that I can give you that far outweigh the first two, both in the power they represent and in the problem they propose to solve. These two words are God Incarnate.
Comparisons between Superman and Jesus have been going on for an incredibly long time. This is partly because such comparisons are common in literature but also because, in my humble opinion, Superman’s creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, saw a need for a messiah. They may have never put it in those terms, but looking at their context—loner, low-income, sons of Jewish immigrants living through the Great Depression—I can definitely see how Superman, at his core, was designed to be a hero in keeping with the tradition of the messiah, God’s anointed servant sent to save His people from oppression and abuse.
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