Rick Smith (14 Oct 2004)
"Soraya: Christopher Reeve - Christian?"


Could you site the interview so I could research it?
You recall an interview where he "conversed" with the Lord
right after his accident, but on Larry King he said:

From a May 1998 appearance on Larry King Live on CNN

KING: A lot of questions are coming in about faith, and the last time you
were with us, I asked this,
if you prayed and you said you thought that would be hypocritical; you
didn't pray before this,
why pray now? Has -- have you gotten any feelings of faith or God through
all of this?
Lot of people asking that.

REEVE: Well, believe it or not, I think that, y'know, God is not an entity
that you find when you go to
church and pray to God almighty, you know, and I always remembered that
going to church as a kid,
you know, and they talk about the vengeance of His terrible swift sword and
His army, I said, "well that's
kind of a scary guy." But I think that -- while I don't believe in God, per
se, I believe in spirituality.
And I believe that spirituality actually is automatically within ourselves,
but we have to learn how to
access it, and what that is, is realizing there is a higher power...

This was four years after his accident.

His brother, a devout atheist, said Christopher was one also,
though he didn't advertise it.

The Superman character was certainly not Christian.
He exhibited all of the values of secular humanism, he was patriotic,
he continually did good deeds, but you can say the same things
of the Freemasons. Those things surely wont get you saved.

If you want your child to be a good citizen, and a good neighbor,
maybe the Superman character is a good example.

If you want your child to be a good Christian, which includes all
those other good things, then Jesus is the example he should follow.

Comic book "superheroes"are not something Christians should be
promoting to their children IMHO.