[Bryanw92]

The two Jewish men who created Superman based him on Moses, not Jesus.

[svcw]

To the headline: oh good grief.

[TalBlack]

It wasn’t Jesus or Moses I saw in a commercial for the new movie “Man of Steel” it was a frame depicting George Reeves over the face of the current star. Can’t for the life of me imagine why they did that.

[who knows what evil?]

I read a review from a NYC metro critic who was whining about the ‘9-11’ imagery in the film because Superman and Zod knock a few buildings over in the heat of battle...a good old city-destroying fight is what fans have been waiting for since the 70’s. It’s a MOVIE, for pete’s sake...

[Fledermaus]

This was the same in the first Christopher Reeve Superman movie. The script even has Marlon Brando saying, “I give them my only son”...

Also, there is the part where, like Jesus, he goes away at around 17 years old and comes back in his 30’s.

[faithhopecharity]

Oh good grief!

How about Wonder Woman, then?

[Biggirl]

Bear with the missing “I”. The copy and pasting did not pick it up.

[jeffc]

Where did Jerry Siegel and/or Joe Shuster ever say what they based their Superman creation on?

[Biggirl]

This could be of interest:

http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/comic_book_religion.html

[Alex Murphy]

Everyone knows Superman is just a thinly veiled treatise on the life of the Son of God....I caught up with director Zack Synder in Los Angeles to find out why Kal-El has so much religious baggage.

Superman isn't the only superhero with religious baggage:

"God exists, and he's American" is the judgment of Dr. Milton Glass, fictional nuclear physicist from the acclaimed Alan Moore-Dave Gibbons comic Watchmen, when he learns that Jon Osterman, has come back from the dead. Osterman disputes Glass's judgment, but the new deity's protest rings as hollow as his promise of fealty to his first girlfriend....this critic could not help but notice that Dr. Manhattan is very close to the Mormon concept of God....I highly doubt that Moore had Mormonism in mind when he breathed life into Dr. Manhattan. Still, it's remarkable how much America's most ambitious comic book and its most ambitious religion share in common.
-- from the thread God Exists, and He's Mormon

[al_c]

Uh ... no. I’ve never compare Superman to Jesus. What is this author smoking?

[Fiji Hill]

I’ve often wondered as to why Superman was chosen as the character’s name. Was Jerry Siegel reading Friedrich Nietzsche?

[Fiji Hill]

Another thing to chew on: Superman’s arch-foe was a man named Luther.