Batman always has been a dark-and-edgy superhero who fights evil, but in a new comic he’s also someone who has lost his Christian faith.
In the newest comic from DC, Batman #53, the Dark Knight/Bruce Wayne is “sequestered for questioning as part of a lawsuit that Mr. Freeze is filing against Batman” when Wayne asks a woman about her cross necklace, according to Inverse.com. That’s when Wayne has a flashback, which reveals he abandoned Christianity as a child.
His father, Thomas Wayne, apparently raised Bruce Wayne as a Christian but the younger Wayne drifted from the faith after his parents were murdered.
“Do you believe in God?” a woman asks Wayne.
“I used to,” Batman responds. “My father was a Christian. He held hallow the immortal soul, heaven, the Father and the Son. Giving your will to your Lord, trusting Him with that will. He wanted me to believe, too. But he wanted me to come to it on my own. He went to church. He told me all the stories. Talked a lot about what we can control, what we can’t.”
But after his parents were murdered, Bruce Wayne became upset.
“I put aside believing in a deity. Or believing in anything my father thought had saved him.”
Wayne wonders why God had let his parents die.
“I couldn’t really see that anything had saved him,” Wayne says. “I left Gotham. For a while. I searched for something solid to put my faith in.”
That’s when he became Batman.
“I waited for something to find me,” Wayne says, concluding the flashback.
The comic hit newsstands Wednesday.
Michael Foust is a freelance writer. Visit his blog, MichaelFoust.com.
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