Sunday morning Noah had the tape from my desk and several posters he had drawn up himself. At the top it says, "WANTED". Immediately under this mandate is a picture of Noah's favorite super-villian - Mr. Penguin from Batman. (You know it is Mr. Penguin because of the top hot and monocle...not many bad guys can pull that look off.) Under the picture Noah wrote "get he"...we obviously still need to work on our pronouns.
Now call me narrow-minded, but I could not make the immediate correlation between Batman, super-villians and Jerusalem. So I had no choice but to ask Noah on the way home what his inspiration was. This was his reply:
"Well, mom it is like this. Mr. Penguin was a super-villian...you know a bad guy. He makes bad choices. And he reminds me of Pilate...you know the guy who was kind of like a king or something. And Mr. Penguin has his own henchmen and those are like Pilate's soldiers who came to get Jesus and arrest him. The henchmen are bad guys too but they can't help it as much. Then there is Batman...he is like Jesus. Do you understand this mom?"
Suddenly it did make total sense. But then Noah elaborated even further...
"But, when Mr. Penguin is captured Batman and Jesus will just love him even though he is bad. The henchmen too, Jesus loves everyone more than they are bad. Right mom?"
I told him "yes", Jesus loves everyone more than they are bad. That is really what the story of Jerusalem is all about. Redemption and reconciliation of a very bad people (complete with super-villians) to a God that just flat out loves them "more than they are bad".
Batman theology...not so far off base.
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