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How about The Watchmen?  With the film receiving so much press, I had to check out the graphic novel.*  What is interesting about The Watchmen, and receives exploration in the essay Taking Off the Mask: Invocation and Formal Presentation of the Superhero Comic in Moore and Gibbons’ Watchmen, is the irony of vigilante superheros.  From where does our salvation come?  Who can be trusted to set things aright in our difficult age, or any age for that matter?

In stark contrast to how The Watchmen resolve the problems of the world (in case you're not familiar with their decisions, I won't spoil the story for you), we find Jesus the Christ giving his life as a ransom for many and calling His people to love God, neighbor, self, and creation.  Gregory Nazianzen writes,

Many indeed are the wonderous happenings of that time:  God hanging from a cross, the sun made dark and again flaming out; for it was fitting that creation should mourn with its creator.  The temple veil rent, blood and water flowing from his side: the one as from a man, the other as from what was above man; the earth shaken, the rocks shattered because of the rock; the dead risen to bear witness to the final and universal resurrection of the dead.  The happenings at the sepulcher and after the sepulcher, who can fittingly recount them?  Yet no one of them can be compared to the miracle of salvation.  A few drops of blood renew the whole world, and do for all men what the rennet does for the milk:  joining us and binding us. -- Gregory Nazianzen, On the Holy Pasch, Oration 45.1, taken from The Ancient Christian Commentary on Mark, edited by Thomas C. Oden and Christopher A. Hall.

Greeting:  Christ is risen!

Response: Christ is risen indeed!

Let us eagerly anticipate the new heavens and the new earth and follow God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength.