The difference is that because their belief systems were polytheist, there was always space for defeated gods in the pantheon. As Christians found out though, attempts to change the social structure underpinned by those beliefs invited bloody reprisals. Your ‘insecurity’.

Of course, that’s because Biblical/Christian thought processes are how we got to “the Left” as we know it. You want really right-wing stuff, you have to abandon Christianity, which got its start as a subversive slave religion and then turned out to be even more of an asshole thing than the old-school pagan religions. The priests of Ishtar and Jupiter didn’t feel the lack of confidence necessary to lead to them killing off their competition, but maybe they should have.

Weird thing when you stop and think about it, but even the base assumptions and mindsets for a lot of modern media are essentially and intrinsically left-wing in outlook and worldview.

Hell, when you get down to it, very little of our popular culture is actually framed or related from a conservative viewpoint. If it were? It would all be a lot different. Bambi would be told from the viewpoint of the hunter filling his pot, feeding his family. Instead, they take the side of the forest rat, a deer, and play up all the underdog animals of the forest as the Good Guys ™. Look at Peter Rabbit, ferchrissakes… The only version of that with a conservative slant is the Perry Bible Fellowship one:

https://www.gocomics.com/perry-bible-fellowship/2020/03/16

No, nine-tenths of media and entertainment is told from the left’s viewpoint. There is little to nothing of a right-wing cast to much of anything.

I agree. American comic books are very leftwing. Possibly they are a reaction against right-wing pulp stories. Possibly Hollywood pulled them further left.

Good isn’t stupid, because stupid isn’t good. Stupid isn’t evil, but it is bad, and that ain’t good.

Every jackass is a genius in his own eyes.

As for comic books, they’re all about the continuity. Batman can’t kill off the Joker because the franchise needs the Joker. Art does not imitate life. Art imitates itself.

And, on top of it all, there’s a not-so-subtle leftward tilt of wish-fulfillment to the whole thing. The entire industry has this ideological twist to it, one that is entirely leftwards in orientation. The underlying assumptions are pure leftwing escapism–The Nietzschean concepts are clearly there, of superior men setting themselves aside from the rules and conventions of society to fix everything for everyone, whether they like it or not.

Reality is, if you had people like this running around? You’d put up with it for one iteration of city-wrecking, and then it would be open season on Superman. Either that, or the Tony Starks behind it all would be sued into penury. Just one of their little in-city battles would result in literal man-millennia of lawyer’s hours, and just the fees alone would bankrupt the lot of them–Justifiably so. Imagine it: “Bruce Banner, in the guise of ‘The Incredible Hulk’, threw a streetcar through my living room, killing my aged mother as she watched TV…”.

The whole genre is full of this objectively left-wing underpinnings. There aren’t “normal citizens” doing their own thing, minding their own business, running their lives as participants in a democratic society. It’s all downtrodden everman victims, some of whom get special “powers”, with which they instantly go off the rails and either become supervillians or their equally destructive superhero counterparts. The “authorities” are always shown as ineffective and useless, with the superheros coming to their rescue.

What more perfect metaphor for how the leftwing meddling mindset views the world? Don’t all of them seem to see themselves as superior beings, “helping” the rest of us? Look at San Francisco or Seattle for examples of how that crap really works out.

No, I’m not a fan of the comic book, its simplistic views of the world, or the people who model themselves on those characters. I see Superman on paper or the screen, and what I see hidden in the shadows behind him are the same set of destructive left-wing ideologues that have wrecked much of the civilization in the name of saving us all. The mindset stems from the same roots that the wish-fulfillment in the comic books do, and when it is expressed out in the real world, then you get the Ayres mentalities that we have running things. I dare say that the Strzoks of the “Deep State” all see themselves as comic book heroes, entitled and empowered to do all the things they did to save the rest of us from the evil supervillian Trump… And, you can see where that crap is leading us: Likely breakdown of the social commons and coming revolution as these types go further and further into their derangement. Imagine some character like Strzok in charge of the missiles out in North Dakota, deciding he knew better than the people of these United States and their duly elected representatives…

All of that stems from the same things that go into the world of superheroes and comic books. The mentality is inherently narcissistic and deranged, entitled and unaccountable.

But maybe the underlying message is prisons in Gotham (meaning all of ours, I presume) are useless and cannot hold determined criminals, but then they don’t really try, do they? Just as the Gotham (meaning our) police can’t do anything about the bad people, neither can the courts or the prisons.

They are ‘good’ and ineffective, consuming money and energy but achieving no results.

If I lived in Gotham I would begin to wonder just whose side ‘heroes’ like Batman are on. But then, that’s fantasy because we don’t have masked heroes: all we have is the police, courts and prisons.

How’s that working out for justice?

As for Christ’s link to the lion, turn to Saint John the Evangelist’s vision:

‘Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals”…’

Revelations 5:5.

Christ the Lamb takes away the sins of the world, but Christ also conquers death as the Lion of Judah. A stronger student of the bible than I–C.S Lewis, no doubt– would be able to link that to Isaiah and his vision of the changing aspects of angels.

Long and short of it is that the New Testament portrayals of Christ are well in line with the broader claims of the article shared by our host. Consider the ends of the parables of the banquet, talents and vineyard, for example.