I think there was a time when "Comic book superheroes are modern mythology" was a good and useful corrective to a certain kind of kneejerk snobbery toward the subject and I think that time ended well before MCU Phase II, much less Phase III
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It's like when people say stuff like "Football is my religion" and in some broad anthropological sense that's true and insightful and yet if you actually literally mean it and try to push it as literally true it's just stupid No it's not
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"American civil religion" is definitely a thing, even among some people who are militantly "anti-religious"
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American history is closer to mythology than the MCU in that it is largely believed in and has been romanticized to the point where much of it isn't true.
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