Is Superman really Jewish?

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Clark Kent grew up in a likely Catholic Kansas town called Smallvile. I don’t think he’s a Christian in recenr renditions and I don’t remember any in past, but he definitely follows Christian virtues, as most super heroes at the time were made to follow.
 
They circ'd him with da kryptonknife

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Superman's early development was awkward. Siegel first used the name in 1933 for a science fiction story titled, “The Reign of Superman,” with illustrations by Schuster. Inspired by the German philosopher Nietzsche, Siegel's first Superman was an evil mastermind with advanced mental powers. Unfortunately, the text of this story has been lost to history.
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Despite his superhuman powers, Superman shared some characteristic traits with a majority of American Jews in the 1940s. Like them, he had arrived in America from a foreign world. His entire family, and in fact his entire race, had been wiped out in a holocaust-like disaster on his home planet, Krypton. Like the German Jewish parents who had sent their children on the kindertransports or baby Moses set adrift in the bull rushes of the Nile River, Superman's parents launched him to Earth in hopes that he would survive. And while the mild-mannered Clark Kent held a white collar job as a reporter by day, the “real” man behind Kent's meek exterior was a virile, indestructible crusader for justice. This fantasy must have resonated among American Jews, who felt powerless to help their brethren in the death camps of Europe.
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Superman obeys the Talmudic injunction to do good for its own sake and heal the world where he can. Siegel and Shuster had created a mythic character who reflected their own Jewish values.
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You know a lot of farmers in Kansas that are? He's most likely Lutheran (lol) or Catholic.

In any case I know that everyone touts Siegel and Schuster as Jewish but my research indicates they're on the secular end of Judaism.
 
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Well, what I'm told is that the Jews that created Superman where somewhat inspired by a meme within Jewish history: that of exile. Just as the Jews were exiled from their homeland of Judea, Superman was forcibly removed from his homeworld of Krypton. Of course, for the creators of Superman, what was even more relevant was how Superman was kind of like a second generation American. He doesn't have any knowledge of Krypton and he spent his whole life in America, but he can't escape the fact that he's still different from everyone else. Likewise, the writer behind Superman (Joe Shuster) was a second generation American whose parents were Ashkenazi Jews from Europe who fled Europe due to anti-Semitism. Clearly, these experiences played a role in Superman's character.

Of course, Superman actually likes America and never tried to subvert his host country, so clearly he can't be Jewish.
 
I actually read up on this a few years ago while bored.

Earliest comics had him just believe in God in the most basic and non-denominational early 20th century sense and supporting the most common Christian values of the time while not being entirely specific for the sake of the comics code and whatnot to avoid offending any specific denomination, as well as sometimes doing these little religious PSAs, especially in the 60s, that either showed him as a Catholic or non-denominational and helping priests, rabbis, jewish kids, black kids or stopping racism and whatnot. And other stories showed him with Christian influences in his family. His creators though made him as a sort of representation of jewish and Talmudic values as some here have already said.

These days within comics, Superman's religion along with Batman's is even more inconsistent as fuck since it is entirely up to whatever writer is writing for him in a specific issue and what beliefs said writer has, and with how inconsistent things have been with capeshit since the 80s, Superman is either implied to be Catholic, Jewish, Unitarian, non-denominational, worshiping Krypton's gods or their version of God, or becoming corrupted and thinking he's a god for one reason or another (one writer called Andrew Smith also made Superman a Protestant).

Much like how capeshit characters constantly switch back and fourth between political beliefs, being fags or even going through drastic personality or moral shifts; like Batman and some Marvel characters switching between atheism, judaism and christianity all the time or Robin now being gay or Whatever being an asshole for one issue then being not an asshole in the next one, because each writer just uses the character as a self-insert or because they don't bother to research a character's history. Its a common problem with superhero comics or most comics in general these days outside of Dark Horse.

The most notable instances of Superman's religious or political views among the wider general audiences (not capeshit spergs since they're an autistic minority that keeps buying this trash despite it barely ever being good) were Snyder's Man of Steel movie which made his Christian upbringing more apparent, and some controversial online comic by DC from like 5 or so years ago that was on several news outlets that featured Superman being somewhat iffy about gay marriage but not openly opposed to it.
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So I guess the answer is that in terms of real world influence and by the word of his creators, he's jewish-inspired and morally jewish to them. But within context of the storylines (which are a mess as is standard with capeshit) he's usually Catholic or some form of Christian like maybe 60% or 70% of the time. Which is probably more consistent than most capeshit characters I guess since they can't retcon his simple country boy background for the time being, unless they already did.
 
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I actually read up on this a few years ago while bored.

Earliest comics had him just believe in God in the most basic and non-denominational early 20th century sense and supporting the most common Christian values of the time while not being entirely specific for the sake of the comics code and whatnot to avoid offending any specific denomination, as well as sometimes doing these little religious PSAs, especially in the 60s, that either showed him as a Catholic or non-denominational and helping priests, rabbis, jewish kids, black kids or stopping racism and whatnot. And other stories showed him with Christian influences in his family. His creators though made him as a sort of representation of jewish and Talmudic values as some here have already said.

These days within comics, Superman's religion along with Batman's is even more inconsistent as fuck since it is entirely up to whatever writer is writing for him in a specific issue and what beliefs said writer has, and with how inconsistent things have been with capeshit since the 80s, Superman is either implied to be Catholic, Jewish, Unitarian, non-denominational, worshiping Krypton's gods or their version of God, or becoming corrupted and thinking he's a god for one reason or another (one writer called Andrew Smith also made Superman a Protestant).

Much like how capeshit characters constantly switch back and fourth between political beliefs, being fags or even going through drastic personality or moral shifts; like Batman and some Marvel characters switching between atheism, judaism and christianity all the time or Robin now being gay or Whatever being an asshole for one issue then being not an asshole in the next one, because each writer just uses the character as a self-insert or because they don't bother to research a character's history. Its a common problem with superhero comics or most comics in general these days outside of Dark Horse.

The most notable instances of Superman's religious or political views among the wider general audiences (not capeshit spergs since they're an autistic minority that keeps buying this trash despite it barely ever being good) were Snyder's Man of Steel movie which made his Christian upbringing more apparent, and some controversial online comic by DC from like 5 or so years ago that was on several news outlets that featured Superman being somewhat iffy about gay marriage but not openly opposed to it.
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So I guess the answer is that in terms of real world influence and by the word of his creators, he's jewish-inspired and morally jewish to them. But within context of the storylines (which are a mess as is standard with capeshit) he's usually Catholic or some form of Christian like maybe 60% or 70% of the time. Which is probably more consistent than most capeshit characters I guess since they can't retcon his simple country boy background for the time being, unless they already did.
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I think the more offensive part of this is whatever the artist did to their faces.
 
Superman is one of the most jewish creations of the modern era. A jewish messiah from a jewish planet with a jewish name. No wonder the jews love him so much.

His entire character, personality, appearance, powers and everything else is 100% jewish. That's why I'm telling you to stop defending this guy. It's a shame to hear someone defend a jew like this. Superman is a jew. He has no real powers but those are easily replaced with real powers that he has. He doesn't really need them. He is jewish, not just his DNA.
 
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