187- Theistic debate
The religions were carefully chosen to offend as few people as possible.
On a slightly more serious note, I have always wondered how it works with comic characters like Wonder Woman when in that univere the greek pantheon of gods was real, but so was the Christian god as evidenced by the Spectre and others. There might be an explaination for this somewhere, and if it does, post a link to it so that I can promptly ignore it.
“As a wiccan, your opinion does not count.”
But now, now.
Spank was promoted off-screen to a Power Group member?
Ah the multid therom. The least important explaination that explains this.
It states that it is a difference in misinterpretation. While there is a different pantheon of “Gods” they fall more into a different catagory (Almost to the point of angels you could say) and on the “God plane” they are countied more towards demi-gods when compared to the Christian god.
(Example in the 1700s the “world” according to most people didn’t include America (Both North and South) but they were still there. It doesn’t mean that America didn’t exist, but just simply that they didn’t know about it yet.)
Love the Raven parody.
Raven + Scarlet Witch = that Wiccan?
Nice to see good ol Spank is back.^^
Yay, a Raven heroine! Finally! :D
Let´s hope that wasn´t the last time we saw her.^g^
Henotheism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism
“God of wisdom? The guy whose response to a prophecy of apocalypse is “learn to enjoy being eaten by a giant wolf?” God of _apathy_, maybe.”
Eh, consider: To the Vikings that WAS the highest thing. They were fatalistic. ‘The World WILL end, Ragnarok will occur and all the dead heroes will return for a glorious battle where they’ll die again. Then the world re-starts.’
It wasn’t about the good guy winning for them, it was about the hero keeping that smug grin even in the face of certain doom.
I see the comic is living up to its name in yet another way. Spiffy.
Frigg is goddess of wisdom but doesn’t tell anyone anything Odin Acts as secondary god of wisdom and paid for the power to do so with his eye and he actually tells people what he knows.
To be fair, Jehova even admits he’s not the only god when he tells his people to worship no other god before him, ’cause he’s a jealous god. I certainly don’t know about him being greater than any other pantheon, but then it’s pretty much all speculation and opinion with no proof to back it up, almost by definition.
@Ultrageek, actually, he says the other gods are powerless to the point where they cannot even as much as move, talk or eat. It seems more that while He refers to them as ‘gods’ acknowledging that they are worshiped by men as such, they are in fact mere objects only worshiped by people as gods but not actual gods. Thus He formulates a complicated truth (‘complicated’ to the people of that time) that He is the only God in a more simpler idea that He is the most powerful among gods and the only one that should be worshiped.
It’s a mistake to think earlier people were not mentally sophisticated.
@Moriarty, Jehovah could also have beeen $h!t talking other gods, much as rappers do with each other. He could have also been Jay-Z gone back in time.
I thought Odin gave up his right eye
No no no tyr is Norse God of war.
Great comic fyi.
I know every supergroup needs a wonderwoman, but seriously guys, pick Odin. If not for the fact that he’s got an immortal army of Vikings with power levels being between over 9000 to chuck norris.
Problem with the Norse is that nearly all their gods were gods of war, essentially.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_%28comics%29
Try this on for DC Comics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_%28comics%29
Odin, all the way.
Team Athena here, but I think Odin is tougher.
AP Storm has a point, on the top of my head at least Odin, Tor and Tyr were war gods. A special point about Odin, although he was a war god, his attention might not be a good thing since it is in his interest to get good warriors (which might be on your side) to Valhalla (die in battle).
Internet, I am disappoint.
I mean sure, conflicting pantheons in a superhero setting… good fun premise.
But wouldn’t the literal gods of wisdom at least attempt to talk it out? Wouldn’t they have divine insight into the fact that whoever can beat up the other isn’t therefore the most suitable to the position.
SORRY I LIKE MY WISDOM WISE GUYS. *injects sense into your humour… the humour dissolves*
Me-Me, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY ARM?
Me-Me: You just want to see a Holmes-off, mythological god style. Admit it.
Just to point out, there WAS a war in DC comics between Olympians and Roman pantheons. It was… weird.
Also, both Thor and Zeus commands lighting, but they always got along fine in Marvel (maybe because their titles overlap only a bit making it more of a common interest).
a bit late to reply (:p), but Odin is also God of Death, besides wisdom and war (together with Tyr, and Thor).
I was under the impression that the DC Greek Gods were all reincarnated Neanderthals, made immortal by some incident involving Darksied’s mother and the Guardians of the Universe, or some such.
the explanation seems to be that God is real, and the other dudes were mostly ancient superheroes who never asked anybody to worship them. like when superman flys to space to hear our prayers.
As an Omniquantist this…doesn’t offend me at all. Actually, I laughed pretty damn hard. :D
Thank a lot of sharing details.