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Yeah, I'm not sleepy yet and I've nothing to do so what the hell: YHWH is very different from Superman in terms of both his personality and his relationship with the human race. Superman makes no demands of humanity, doesn't ever seem to get angry, doesn't even really interact with humans as a whole. He swoops in to serve selflessly, then swoops off when the job is done and goes back to pretending to be a weenie at his day job, where he's got a few friends plus a love interest. Where everybody else in the comics has demons or a dark side or something, he's a paragon of virtue. The thing is, paragons of virtue get boring real fast, especially when they're literally unassailable paragons of virtue. When you're indestructible physically and emotionally, you're not a character so much as a deus ex machina posing as a character. Also, it's impossible to identify with you. Sir Galahad being a classic example.
The Judeo-Christian God differs in that we're not supposed to identify with Him; He's supposed to be impossibly remote and ineffable. Jesus is the member of the Trinity we're supposed to identify with--because He took on almost all human weaknesses and limitations. There's more to relate to in the story of Jesus, and Christians in general do relate to Him quite strongly. God doesn't really have a story as such; where the OT is colorful, it's because of the human characters. I never read many Superman comics, but I don't remember any of the supporting cast there being too exciting either.
The Judeo-Christian God differs in that we're not supposed to identify with Him; He's supposed to be impossibly remote and ineffable. Jesus is the member of the Trinity we're supposed to identify with--because He took on almost all human weaknesses and limitations. There's more to relate to in the story of Jesus, and Christians in general do relate to Him quite strongly. God doesn't really have a story as such; where the OT is colorful, it's because of the human characters. I never read many Superman comics, but I don't remember any of the supporting cast there being too exciting either.
DaShi, you seriously need to get a damn life. I never read your stuff unless somebody quotes it--which doesn't happen all that often--and AFAICT 50% of your posts are you nit-picking at stuff I post, just going by frequency of posts coming immediately after everything I say. Yes, I get it: you don't like me. Probably because of that incident where I marooned you on Ceti Alpha Six and your wife died--no, wait, that was someone else. You've just got this ineffable The Monarch-style rage-on going for me. Whatever. Get over it already, man. That kind of anger has to be lowering your life expectancy or something.
However, I'm sorry. You don't have the self-control and maturity to properly respond to criticism. I should be sensitive to that. However, maybe if you weren't such an ass to me, I'd consider doing the same for you. I'm growing tired of offering the branch.
Many of them happen to be Elok's. The difference is that he throws a fit over them. I can't help that. I post because I want to. That's why I don't care about his ignore. If it helps him cope, more power to him.
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