I like how all the atheists are villains. :rolleyes:
Not all, though. There are a bunch of atheist/agnostic superheroes on that list. From what I can see, you’ve got:
Mastadon
Black Widow
Blackhawk
Arsenic
The Savage Dragon
The Atheist (duh)
Booster Gold
Starman
Colossus
Green Arrow
Mr. Terrific
Pete Wisdom
the second Flash
the Hulk
Dr. Leslie Thompkins apparently counts as a “goddess worshipper” because she referred to God as a “she” once.
And “pro-abortion activist” is a religion now, I guess.
And, oddly enough, there are about equal numbers of voodoo-practicing heroes and villains.
And they had Wolverine turn to christianity in the first X-Men series? I missed that on. (Saw him playing pool in a bar on Christmas eve in X-Men Evolution, though.)
I think religion doesn’t mean quite the same thing after you’ve met several deities, championed another, done battle with a few more, and seen the up-close-and-personal handiwork of The God.
It’s so much that the villains are atheist. They just don’t want to admit theres anything more powerful than themselves. 
it would get in the way of all the fun.
So “hates Spider-Man” is a Religious Affiliation?
Ooooooookkkkaaaaaayyyyy…
The way J.J. does it? Oh yeah.
I just love the fact that Jimmie Olsen(Superman’s Pal) is Lutheran.
Enjoy,
Steven
With all due respect, did you even read the list? Talk about demonstrably false.
I haven’t looked at this but it’s getting a lot of pans in the comics fan community, largely because the operating assumption seems to be that bad guys are atheists unless there’s textual support to the contrary and heroes are religious unless there’s textual support to the contrary.
–Cliffy
Yes, I did read the list but I must have searched wrong or something. There was no category for atheists in the religious groupings and the only atheists I saw were villains. I tried to find hero atheists and I don’t know why I missed them.
Oliver Queen is an agnostic/liberal Marxist communist? The only correct part of that is “liberal”. Dude died and went to live in Heaven, and his best friend used to be the embodiment of God’s wrath. That might not make you a part of a particular religion or denomination, but I think it would rule out agnosticism. He might have socialist leanings, but that’s not the same as being a communist.
What kind of list leaves off Battle Pope, anyway? 
Also, some of the claims they make have very little evidence backing them up. Check out the reference for Booster Gold. All they have is one person claiming he’s an athiest on a webboard somewhere.
Even better, Death of the Endless gets tagged pan-denominational/Mormon because one of the real people her look is purportedly based upon is Mormon. Guess we better call all the comic artists ever and start determining the religions of the models they used!
Hates Spider-Man, GLBT, pro-abortion activist and yoga are all listed as religions. And where can I sign up to be chief priest of the Deviants?
OK, Superman as Methodist I can see. But the thing is, Superman is studiously unaffiliated (or worships Rao, depending on the period). Also, don’t you know that “Kent” is as likely an alteration of “Cohen” as an English Methodist name? Jonathan Kent was quite possibly of Jewish extraction.
And Peter Parker–Protesant? As if!
I think I’ll go join the church of “fundamentalist Enviromentists”
Of course! I’m completely convinced that the environment exists. I’ve seen it with my own eyes!
Not sure if this is a whoosh or not but my understanding was that Keny was used as an “everyman” sort of Midwestern name for Superman.
Spiderman strikes me as probably being Catholic rather than anything else. His parents were Richard Parker and Mary Fitzpatrick-Parker.
You can’t determine the religious affiliation of anyone just by their last name. And re" Remy LeBeau, what the hell is a “Cajun Catholic”? Roman, Greek Orthodox, sure, but not Cajun.
They’re the ones with the extra-spicy communion hosts.
If this guy is just mining random internet chatter, then I have to say: I think I started the “Clark Kent is Methodist” meme, largely out of comparison to Bob Dole.
Whatever. Clark Kent & Peter Parker’s religious affiliations are officially undefined. Not atheist, not agnostic, not generically Protestant, but **undefined. ** And they were written by Jews. (OK, I’m not sure about Ditko, but Siegel, Schuster, Lee–all Jews.) Some people!
They were indeed written by Jews (except for Ditko who was a Catholic) but they wanted them to appeal to the majority of likely readers so they tended to make them more Protestant-like (if that makes any sense).
Aunt May appears to be some sort of Christian and, given Peter’s last name and his Mother’s name I doubt he is Jewish.
Certain characters in the Marvel Universe are overtly Jewish such as Ben Grimm and Moon Kinght (or at least he was…I think!).