>>107283399>desperate flailingThere might be an element of that for some, not everyone has the same strength of faith given to them, but there is a bit more. A lot of pastors teach that the idea of 'living in the world but not being of the world' means putting yourself in a social bubble of other Christians and surrounding yourself with explicitly religious things as a barrier. The younger people, or people new to faith, likely struggle to reconcile their love of pop culture power fantasies and their faith in Jesus whom fought with firm love.
The image may come from a place of cognitive dissonance because the artist might have wanted to see Thanos suffer for his actions in the film, and the picture is a
reaffirmation that we are to rise above those feelings, or it might have been done in pity over Thanos own loss and that the best mercy he can expect to recieve in Endgame is death. Because heroes don't save anymore. Sparing the villain and giving them a chance at redemption or at least repentance is starting to ebcome a lost theme. It could be any number of reasons, so I can't hate it, even though
>>107282686 hit the nail on the head.
I sometimes feel uncomfortable with my fandom of Superman. He is, in a cultural sense, very much an antichrist. And the stuff that happens to people involved in live action projects involving him over the decades only makes that worse.
