Superman as an Anti-Christ figure

Jordan Ballor of the Action Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty thinks that Superman is an Anti-Christ figure. His Commentary: Anti-Christ Superman: The Superhero and the Suffering Servant contrasts conflicting views of Superman as a Christ like figure and as an Anti-Christ like figure. Ballor is focused on Nietzsche’s will to power masterpeice The Anti-Christ.

Nietzsche’s Superman is a being who embodies the will to power, for “Life itself is to my mind the instinct for growth, for durability, for an accumulation of forces, for power: where the will to power is lacking, there is decline.” Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound: The comic book figure Superman is the embodiment of such invincibility and power

My guess is that Jordan Ballor is a Spiderman fan. Superman blows.


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