| How am I wrong? You morons obviously don't even understand the distinctions involved. Ok to simplify it- if devout Christians today met, all at once, all the angels, and the saints, and God and Jesus, and the supernatural-ness of these was shown to be not really God-like at all, but perfectly explicable by science - ie, these were all shown to just be super-powered beings, and not Gods or things that have something special to do with God - would that God still be a God, would those angels still be angels? It's an obvious question and answer. The belief would change, obviously it's impossible to believe that an actual being you can explain by scientific means, that has actual verifiable physical presence, is a God. Those Norse Gods and so on in Marvel are not Gods in the sense Detektor meant, any more than Beyonder or Galactus is. They're super-powered (relative to humans) beings. And that's how they're understood in the context of the comic universe. They would certainly not have any impact, as he suggested they would, on a Marvel character's capacity to believe in "God", ie an intelligent force or being that made and maintains the universe. The existence of one (Thor, Hercules, Galactus) has no bearing on the other (the belief in God by a character who interacts with these other 'gods'). Vote me down all you like, you're morons. |