Originally Posted by
manwhohaseverything
There is clear influence of both goldenage and donner superman in byrne run. Moreover,being human doesn't negate jesus iconography. Every origin story after donner movies except American alien and to a certain extent morrison's action had it to some extent . Many would say jesus is the most human savior figures. On the other hand, people rarely understand that moses is a prophet who lead his people to freedom and never a savior who lead people by example.It's because he was flawed. He had blood on his hands. He created a base code with very basic morality that humanity should try to atleast keep(with some nonsensical once) . Keyword try. He made it in stone because that's really most basic morality and changing or removing any of the codes would be counter productive. He created a standard. Because he knew he himself wouldn't cut it to say the least. Even exile is a reconfirmation of superman as an example figure like in Christianity, christ is that. He killed, he realised the sin and he vowed against it.it's not about killing either. Its like this christ needed to know sin to rescue humanity from it that's the template . Unlike moses, He didn't make peace with it. Moses could only make peace with the bloodshed that happened to free his people. There is a stark contrast. Moses wouldn't be the standard himself. Superman is about sacrificing yourself for humanities sins. He does it time and time again.It's like this, in the old days superman was moses and christ was billy batson. Even waid understood that.