jesus christ superhero?
On tomorrow morning's Radio Sheffield Breakfast, we have a local RE-teacher-turned-academic who apparently 'sees many parallels between Jesus and Superman'. This, the Daily Torygraph informs me, is her idea for making RE relevant to kids who've never been to Sunday School
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The directors went out of their way in the first episode to set up Clark Kent / Christ parallels there, too. They had him "hung" on a cross in a cornfield (by his high school peers, as a prank), and there is also a barnyard scene where the framing and his position from the loft was meant to suggest a sermon-on-the-mount parallel.
(I'm not suggesting it's worth seeing if you haven't... just thought I'd mention it.)
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Thinking about this again, I suppose the transformation of Christ into an active hero goes back at least to the Dream of the Rood - where the passivity of the passion is transferred to the Rood itself, casting Christ as an Anglo-Saxon warrior-hero.
But, without having seen it, I imagine any series that set Superman in a messianic light would produce a figure closer to Simon Magus than Christ. (Which, given the success of The Matrix, might be a winning formula.)
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