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Hey, anyone remember when I posted this in 2018?
Well, I've finally read that whole issue! Actually, I've read King's whole run on Batman, but this is the part I really want to talk about on a Christian forum.
But before I do, I want to know how much I'm allowed to reprint here. Like, I'm pretty sure copyright laws would not permit me to post all 19 or 20 pages of that part of the issue here. I don't think the forum would even let me insert that many pictures into one post. I do actually have all of the words typed out (it's mostly Bruce Wayne talking, but there is another character who says a few things), so I could post the whole "transcript" here for everyone's perusal. But would that be legal?
Otherwise, I'm going to have to put some work into paraphrasing everything while still maintaining the meaning. I really think it's an interesting look into Batman's soul.
AGoodReed wrote:Apparently, it's now canon that Thomas Wayne was a Christian, or at least a churchgoer who knew the Bible stories, but Bruce lost his faith when his parents were killed.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.
Then, in the comments section...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."
Well, I've finally read that whole issue! Actually, I've read King's whole run on Batman, but this is the part I really want to talk about on a Christian forum.
But before I do, I want to know how much I'm allowed to reprint here. Like, I'm pretty sure copyright laws would not permit me to post all 19 or 20 pages of that part of the issue here. I don't think the forum would even let me insert that many pictures into one post. I do actually have all of the words typed out (it's mostly Bruce Wayne talking, but there is another character who says a few things), so I could post the whole "transcript" here for everyone's perusal. But would that be legal?
Otherwise, I'm going to have to put some work into paraphrasing everything while still maintaining the meaning. I really think it's an interesting look into Batman's soul.
