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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People actively choose to care about Spider-Man or not to care about Spider-Man, they choose whether they're into DC or Marvel or neither or both They write their own superhero story that gets a niche fandom in online communities They decide what's canon based on their tastes
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A mythology isn't like that It's something you just inherit, as part of your connection to a real life community As such by its nature it's the kind of thing that's old fashioned and uncool and dying out, and being replaced with fiction, which is not the same
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Comic books aren’t a religion. When Q starts saying Spider-man was real then maybe
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