"Amy Guskin"  wrote in message
news:0001HW.C3A5B197035B8AC3F0182648{at}news.verizon.net...
> >> On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 21:58:26 -0500, Amy Guskin wrote
> (in article ):
>

>
> > saying there's one more level of 'meta' there than you're accounting
for.
> > Sure, the backstory is that he's this super villain guy -- let's say
from
> > another dimension or whatever -- who is often mistaken for
"Satan," the
> > literary construct who became arch-enemy to a certain subset of
religious
> > believers in our real-world universe.  But John's conjecturing (I
believe)
> > that the reason he was written like that was an excuse for Marvel to
have an
> > anti-Christian, Satan-like figure.  Basically getting to have Satan
without
> > calling him Satan.  Like wearing a John Deere cap and winking and
saying,
> > "Hey, I'm wearing this _ironically_."  But the bottom
line is that
you're
> > still wearing a John Deere cap. <<
>
> Correcting my own hasty fingers: that should have been "...an excuse for
> Marvel to have a Christian, Satan-like figure."  I was wavering somewhere
> between "anti-Christ" and "Christian," and somehow
conflated them.
Whoopsy.

I'm pretty sure it'd be safe to say that said Satan-like figure would be
anti-Christian, so it works for me.

I do wonder, though, if we've gotten so correct in our posts that you're now
forced to pick nits in your own to relieve the tedium?
;-)

Dennis


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