Logan is a Christian Fable Disguised as a Superhero Story

Logan is a Christian Fable Disguised as a Superhero Story March 6, 2017

Hugh Jackman from Logan, photo courtesy 20th Century Fox
Hugh Jackman from Logan, photo courtesy 20th Century Fox

 

With the help of several nurses, Laura and several other of her kind escape the warehouse/hospital they’ve been kept. They hope to find a sanctuary. They want to go back to … Eden. And when the nurse and Laura meet up with Logan, that’s where they want him to take them.

But here’s the catch: Eden, Logan believes, is a fiction, a place made up for an X-Men comic book that never really existed. It’s not history: It’s a bunch of fairy tales. And for a time, he refuses to take Laura on this Quixotic mission of hers.

Logan’s critique of the X-Men comics, and the Eden found therein, sounds much like what unbelievers tell Christians about their own beliefs. We’re mocked for placing our faith in “fairy tales,” things impossible to prove and incredible to believe.

But faith is a powerful thing, and Charles Xavier knows it. For the moment, it’s not so important whether Eden is real or not: It’s that she believes it, and that belief is giving her the will to push on—so critical to survival.

And so they do, enduring through hardship and misery and death. Toward the end of the movie, Logan is so sick he can’t even drive any more: Laura takes the wheel, finds a way to push on the gas pedal and drives to North Dakota, where Eden’s supposed to be.

And guess what? It’s right where the comic books said it was. A comic-book fiction turned reality, word made flesh.


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