Well more than splitting from the orthodox faith, the idea of creating another religion or a sect it´s considered a schism in the catholic pov, which is what happened with Luthero. Initiatives to help the community at large on the arts, health, education, social work fronts are always welcome but if people want to do them as part of an institution representing the catholic faith, they need to have approval from its authorities. Now if we are talking about initiatives created to serve the community in general then people they can do it on their own which was Kurt´s case on Way of X imo, because he wanted to serve his society on the social/moral/ethical front or the matters of the heart as David called them and this is why I agreed with Spurrier that it was neccesary to leave clear this story was not about developing a new religion. That said I completely agree with you Spurrier didn´t really go deeply with this idea and Way of x ended being more about adventure than anything else so yes such a waste because it would have been great to see Kurts phylosophical pov.
Agreed with all this, if we were talking about Krakoa hundred of years in the future I could see it´s culture developing like this given the isolationism being developed there but this is unbelievable coming from a group of people who only a year ago used to live among the rest of the human nations and were born with their social/cultural povs. I could buy them being deppressed, self destructive and hostile because of all the times the world at large seemed to ignore initiatives developed with the idea of killing all of them but the idea of them succedenly leaving behind everything that was part of their identity in a year lacks basic logic, let alone the fact the X-men themselves were still interested in participating with the rest of the world and I don´t even see Magneto agreeging to brutalize decimated mutants given how he himself took care of the decimated mutants at Genosha and his first idea definitely was not to kill them off because they were a shame or kill himself because he no longer was a mutant and I could see even Raven, used to work for the US goverment and has lived 100 years on her own in the "human world" raising an eyebrow over mutants killing each other for sports or to prove they are worthy. Like I said, I can see Apocalypse approving this because he would see it as them needing to prove themselves but this would be complete madness to the other members of the QC, again with Sinister exception, who has never cared about mutants.
I also agree that this looked like Hickman may have been doing a critic on this particular pov but the fact he very much left basic charactherization of heroic characters out the window gives a feel of this story being very void in actual content. It proposes a lot of ideas but it leaves all of them behind and the cost to the characters personality was too high. The X-men are supposed to be heros and if Hickman wanted to tackle them in this context the least he could do was do so allowing them their proper reaction to the crucible, not just give some vague excuse of them having too many doubts to act because that never has been part of their characterization.
Agreed on the Krakoa front. I guess the problem is that we have not seen them actually discussing Crucible or the harder issues like Maddie´s ressurrection and this is just narrative cheating because then how can we know what arguments they handed and who said what in the discussion? because this is also a very important part of the story, we could have done with more panels like the one in which Jean proposed the "Hurt no man" law and Magneto supporting it or Exodus "Respect this sacred land" we have just not seen them make actual decisions and that hurts their characters and the story in general.
I actually liked this issue but yes, I can see why fans were like wth, Hickman proposed, again, an interesting idea but the voices of the characters this issue felt off, like not quite themselves. I liked the proposition of them using humanitys "tools" the economy, politics and education, to counter anti-mutant perspectives in the world. It is an interesting proposal and not far from Charles original idea of his School being a front to show humanity how good mutants can be for society, just this time with mutants well being given a priority they didn´t have before. It´s a change from Charles original idea, definitely but I can see him taking this possition given how mutants have been treated in the mu the last 15 years.
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Agreed completely