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sunhighriptide · 3 months

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I wish to speak about the possibly unintentional late biblical comparisons with the Eternals. (MCU version specifically.)

They really are like angels sent down to Earth, carrying out the bidding of their creator, a higher being they don't fully understand.

Then their breaking from Arishem over the fate of Earth and humanity is kind of like the angelic fall?

I don't know a whole lot about individual angels, but I think Ikaris compares really well with Michael. The perfect son, leader of the vanguard, god's warrior, who fights and kills and lives without question, who will do anything their creator demands of them, because of course it must be correct it comes from god how could it possibly be wrong.

I'd then compare Druig with Lucifer. While Ajak is the one who seemed to kick off that final revolution, and Sersi is the one who prevented Tiamut's hatching in the end, Druig was the first one to openly question the celestials. For a few milenia, he was the only one. He was also the only one for most of their time on Earth to deliberately disobey Ajak's rules, and by extension, Arishem. He was also the first to leave.

Now I am not certain, but I think I remember reading that Lucifer thought humanity was corrupt and couldn't be trusted, and either he wanted them destroyed, or he wished to take away their free-will and place them in a perfect world, where peace was guaranteed. If it is the latter, that doubles the parralel with Druig, as his number one frustration seemed to be his prevention from interfering to prevent or end conflict, most importantly war, he wants to take away their full free will and give them a paradise to live in. For a few people, he does that.

Which also brings up the question of who we are supposed to side with. With the Eternals movie, nearly everyone loves Druig and hated Ikaris, which I personally think is rather unfair. But people these days are often more sympathetic towards certain versions of Lucifer, or at least less believing in angelic perfection. However, if Eternals had come out in a different century, would that remain the same?

I don't know if I have a point, it's just something I have been thinking about and wanted to share.

#mcu #marvel #eternals #druig #ikaris #christianity #church #lucifer #michael #religion #religion in marvel #religion in the mcu #mcu eternals

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staying-elive · 2 years

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So, it's definitely outside of MCU's scope and not something I'd expect them to tackle especially in the USA, but I always wonder about the state of Earth's religions after all the events that have occurred in the MCU.

Like how do, for example, Christians reconcile a universe where aliens and Norse gods and Celestials and now Egyptian gods (and soon Namor's people) exist? Do they still believe their god created everything, the Bible? Creationism? That's skewing more into theology territory though, but I'm often intrigued when science fiction explores that impact on human society.

Becuase I can't imagine huge Earth-shattering events (literally lol when you have Tiamut erupting from the Earth crust and now stuck in the ocean) would have no impact on people's relationship to their belief system.

The Snap I can see evangelicals interpreting as some kind of Rapture. (Until the Avengers Uno reversed that!)

But the Celestials? Arishem popping into the atmosphere? (I admit, I laughed at that point when I watched Eternals. Made me think of God in the clouds in Monty Python's Holy Grail 😆😅.)

Even if some people say "Well Thor and Khonsu aren't REAL gods...they're clearly just aliens of some kind." I'd expect a lot of people to have a crisis of faith. I don't know... it's just interesting to think about.

#no disrespect meant to any religious folk of any denomination #a lot of sci fi avoids this question by everything being top secret and hidden #like stargate my favourite tv show of all time haha #every other religion is just the bad aliens but let's never mention Christianity except for that 1 episode #kind of disrespectful to other world religions when you think about it #never really thought about it as a kid #anyway #mcu #marvel #religion in the mcu #eternals #moonknight #mcu phase 4 #mcu phase 5 #arishem #moon knight #staying-elive

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drawingdroid · 5 months

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That trend on twitter where you draw your comfort characters as the Steven meme (under the cut).

#silly art #like extremely #but I think these two would be good friends #and have a lot of conversations about religion #idk #star wars fanart #din djarin #grogu #din grogu #star wars #daredevil #matt Murdock #mcu #marvel mcu #the mandalorian #droiddraws

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fiprobsreblogsalot · 7 months

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Some sneak peek ig

This one probs will be up after 18th or something because

✨Fuck Midterms✨

#sambucky #buckysam #winterfalcon #sam wilson #captain america #falcon #bucky barnes #winter soldier #the falcon and the winter soldier #falcon and the winter soldier #tfatws #fatws #marvel #marvel cinematic universe #mcu #sam wifeson is my religion

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nerdby · 10 months

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Random but I have a theory that GotG vol 3 is a critique of Christianity and the Christian God. Like there are obvious parallels between the ending and the story of Noah's arc, and Counter-Earth seems like it could be symbolic of the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. And the High Evolutionary behaves exactly like Christian God. Would that make Adam Warlock Satan/Lucifer, the fallen angel????

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lokiinmediasideblog · 2 months

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Biblical Influences in the Thor Movies

I was thinking of the Biblical influences that permeated Thor movies, loose and inaccurate adaptations of the Norse pantheon after reading to the Pre-production section of Thor (2011)'s wiki article and the constant mention of turning an "old testament god into a new testament one". And they often mention the parable of the Prodigal Son where Thor is THE PRODIGAL SON.

It is well-known that in Norse mythology, Loki was saddled with the comparisons to Lucifer due to biases from the Christians that transcribed the myths, and as the "antagonist".

The Thor movies are nothing like the Norse myths, but it's interesting to see how much more Biblical influence they have. Norse myth!Thor has no points of comparison to Lucifer or Jesus (while myth!Loki has been jokingly said to be the quivalent to "if Satan and Jesus were the same person"). But I've noticed that the MCU's version of Thor does.

Thor's parallels with Lucifer (admittedly they're all from the Thor (2011) movie):

He was his God/King/Father's favorite. The most beautiful angel.

Fell from grace after challenging his Father/God/King (banishment). His main sin was his arrogance and pride.

Loki's parallel's with Lucifer:

The horned depiction (I am well-aware that horned depictions of the Devil happened due to the villification of Pagan deities).

Loki's deceit has destructive consequences.

Loki also "fell from grace" (into the void). But Loki let go after being unable to process rejection and the traumatic revelations. And he came back worse.

Loki and Sylvie were responsible for unleashing free will.

Thor's parallels with Jesus:

Thor became a man, like Jesus. While Jesus did it willingly to save humanity, Thor was forced into it.

Thor sacrifices himself to protect a town from Loki's wrath.

After said sacrifice, Thor comes back as a God again. No longer just a man. After passing a test.

Loki's parallels with Jesus:

Has self-destructive self-sacrificial tendencies but they are usually geared towards protecting his loved ones.

Loki sacrifices his own free will and personhood to keep the rest of the timelines from dying and "save his friends". As much as I hated aspects of the series, a part of me is interested in the "Godhood as a form of dehumanization" aspect of his end. It's so fucked up.

Loki is the one dealing with an entity that's trying to make him give in to its commands that would doom the entire universe and eventually killed him.

Anyway feel free to add to this shit my formerly Catholic ass came up with.

#the thor franchise is fascinating from a comparative religion standpoint.#mcu!loki #mcu!thor #thor movies #meta #i have brainrot officially

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faebirdie · 1 year

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me seeing all these moon knight fanfics where the boys celebrate christmas rather than hanukkah:

#they're jewish!#like writing a multicultural imagine with them and their partner celebrating each of their holidays together is fine #thats how couples who have different religions work #but so many fics dont even mention Hanukkah #i'm so fucking tired #marc spector #jake lockely #steven grant #moon knight #mcu #moon knight system #anti semitism #hannah talks

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trans-cuchulainn · 10 months

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i do think it's kind of funny that ao3 seems to have made a blanket change to all the "mythology" tags to make them "religion and lore" (not a good change) EXCEPT the "arthurian mythology" tag, which remains intact despite a Number of people trying to get that one reworked or at least different wrangled for ages. they're like "we're taking mythology away from all the contexts where it might be applicable. and leaving it in the context where it's dubious. this is a sensible change"

#Choices Were Made #genuinely very funny that they left that one specifically #extremely annoying that they changed the others #especially the (dubiously correct) use of irish and welsh #when the Norse tag etc does not use any language except english #so it feels weirdly othering #especially because the exact translation of the irish doesn't match the english #like béaloideas is not simply 'lore'. it is far more specific than that.#so it doesn't feel like a carefully thought through change #not to mention “ancient” which. crucially. they have not used for the norse tag #so it's only the irish and welsh material that's ancient huh?? those are not living traditiona to you huh???#it's arbitrary inaccurate and problematic #also can they stop making the Ulster Cycle tag redirect into the general tag please !!!#that's like making captain america redirect into the general mcu tag... it's a venn diagram not a circle...#i want to be able to look for other ulster cycle fics and not scroll through twenty pages of 'assorted fandom plus fairies'#which is what dominates the irish mythology as-was tag and why i never found it browseable #but the new one is like. no actually i am not writing fic of 'ancient irish religion and lore'#that's not at all what I'm writing about #i am writing about medieval irish literature #'irish mythology' was never my favourite tag but god it was better than this

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ohfugecannada · 7 months

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The inclusion of the mother Mary on this thumbnail is so damn funny without the context of Mantis’s comic backstory.

#religion #marvel #MCU #mantis #gotg mantis #MCU mantis #marvel mantis #YouTube

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dogma06 · 1 year

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You know how so many people say that God is in all of us?

Well they are right, except they misinterpreted God as the Ego.

I thought about it with the help of Michaelangelo's painting "The Creation of Adam" and Gaurdians of the Galaxay movies.

**SPOILERS FOR VOL 3**

The high evolutionary had a god complex. They thought that everything they created was by their design, so they knew its limit. But when Rocket pointed out something that they didn't know, it shattered them. They couldn't understand how something they created knew more than them, and it was a blow to their ego. It destroyed their perception that they were in control of everything.

Like Ego, the living planet, they thought themselves as a god because they didn't know anything else and when they met other beings, they decided to change things because they didn't like how everything was and tried to make all of it them.

Michaelangelo's painting, if you look at god you can see the the shape around it is a brain. The mind created Adam not god, god is just the ego. And Ego was just a brain that didn't value connections with others.

(This is my opinion, but when you look at the antagonist of gotg, Ronan was a zealot, Ego was a god, and the high evolutionary had a god complex. There seems to be a theme in this trilogy.)

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toastgoatteeth · 7 months

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I have not engaged with any MCU media in a VERY long time, so correct me if I'm wrong, but does anyone else sometimes think about how Norse mythology is the only mythology/religious sect that is proven to exist in this universe. It's objectively interesting to ME at least, because presumably everyone on earth was chilling and relaxing and then suddenly the Nordic god, Loki, touches down and starts causing alien havoc in New York.

Like, would that not cause some kind of weird religious upset, to just have an actual REAL Scandinavian god be real, amongst the rest of his pantheon? Like yeah, Thor is a superhero or whatever, but does anyone ever just be like "That's the actual Norse Thor and Loki. The god's from Scandinavian folklore. They are the only gods to be proven real." And like, yes, the MCU gets most if not all of their mythology incorrect, but it's just weird to me how presumably other religions still manage to exist despite Loki and Thor and Odin just fucking being there.

Basically this post was created because I really really really wanted there to be like. A Loki shrine or worshipper or something in the new Loki season because you know. He's a god. He would have worshippers. People who pray to him and all that stuff, and I'm disappointed there weren't any.

#loki #mcu #norse mythology #PLEASE be merciful i dont know that much about people who recognize norse myth as their religion #so forgive me if i sound disrespectful olease #its just wierd that the mcu foesnt acknowledge the fact that norse gods are just there doing stuff #youd think that would cause some kind of religious uproar on earth or something #especially in regards to Catholicism and Christianity #becuase you know. those two sects. they're followers tend to not have the most tolerance for other viewpoints.#at least in my experiences

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mateuscosme · 7 months

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#drawing #captain marvel #carol danvers #religion #religious #holy #pray #praying #prayer #hand #hands #kree #marvel #mcu #star

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a-biochemist-not-a-bird · 2 years

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I don't know why I haven't seen this anywhere but... Kamala isn't a Muslim name. It's another name of Lakshmi- a Hindu godess which at first I thought, okay, that's fine and kinda nice, Hindu-Muslim solidarity- she's from a mixed background and it's cool. Except my parents were really stuck on that because apparently that doesn't happen, so anyone else?

Update: Many lovely people have shared the explanation w/ me- ty everyone for helping!

#kamala khan #ms marvel #marvel cinematic universe #mcu #i looked up the creators #and this is something a kid growing up in the us wouldn't know #i didn't know this #but my parents who are literally the most f tradition and religion ppl ever #were really stuck on this as a cultural thing #and it does seem.... strange #representation #diversity #disney #anti-ms marvel #sorta

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real-bucky-barnes · 6 months

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Kind of strange, but what religion do you all think I am?

#bucky barnes #marvel #bucky barnes rp #mcu #winter soldier #tumblr polls #religion

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fcbformulaeri · 2 years

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New BTS from Benedict dropped!

https://m.weibo.cn/status/4786389071432083