Batman: Prodigal Christian?

Michael Foust for ChristianHeadlines.com wrote:In the newest comic from DC, Batman #53, the Dark Knight/Bruce Wayne is “sequestered for questioning as part of a lawsuit that Mr. Freeze is filing against Batman” when Wayne asks a woman about her cross necklace, according to Inverse.com. That’s when Wayne has a flashback, which reveals he abandoned Christianity as a child.

His father, Thomas Wayne, apparently raised Bruce Wayne as a Christian but the younger Wayne drifted from the faith after his parents were murdered.

“Do you believe in God?” a woman asks Wayne.

“I used to,” Batman responds. “My father was a Christian. He held hallow the immortal soul, heaven, the Father and the Son. Giving your will to your Lord, trusting Him with that will. He wanted me to believe, too. But he wanted me to come to it on my own. He went to church. He told me all the stories. Talked a lot about what we can control, what we can’t.”

But after his parents were murdered, Bruce Wayne became upset.

“I put aside believing in a deity. Or believing in anything my father thought had saved him.”

Wayne wonders why God had let his parents die.

“I couldn’t really see that anything had saved him,” Wayne says. “I left Gotham. For a while. I searched for something solid to put my faith in.”

That’s when he became Batman.

“I waited for something to find me,” Wayne says, concluding the flashback.

Brian McCoppin wrote:In the second half of the story you get the impression he is returning to his faith. He says that "God blesses your soul by Grace " He compares himself to Job and the story's last words are Job 1:21 "Blessed be the name of the Lord."

AGoodReed wrote:


By the way, what do you call Batman when he skips church?

...

Christian Bail.

Okay, I'm done.

AGoodReed wrote:

Really, it seems like, in Marvel and DC, all gods exist...which really makes atheist characters seem pretty foolish, doesn't it?

Especially Mr. Terrific. That guy is ridiculous in his atheism in the middle of Infinite Crisis.