1. Religion Is Sort Of Irrelevant (Unless You Worship The Norse Gods Or Scientology)
If there's one horrifying truth in the Marvel Universe, it's this apparently, Tom Cruise was right. Oh sure, Hollywood's wackiest Scientologist wasn't completely correct, as all this Thetan-based philosophy is still very much under review. But still, the whole idea of Earth being a lesser civilization cast out from super-powerful alien worlds is looking pretty much correct at this point. So all this time spent mocking the Scientologists for their out-there views is going to look pretty foolish when he turns around and says 'I told you so,' and frankly, I don't want to see that smug face any time soon. I mean, dear god, just
look at it. Multiply that by a thousand and you might possibly begin to fathom the middle finger Tom Cruise is going to give Planet Earth. But let's look at the other question religion in general. Granted, the mainstream religions aren't irrevocably disproved in the Marvel Universe it's still possible to fit a belief in the Almighty/Universal Principle around this new information about space-faring civilisations and aliens. But still, such a gigantic new truth means it's got to take a knock, hasn't it? And this doesn't take into account the significance of the Asgardians. Granted, it's a big if, but if the regular population are aware of what Thor and Loki are and let's face it, they've hardly been inconspicuous then there's going to be a hell of a lot more people signing up to Norse mythology. Though Cap may have rubbished Black Widow's claims that these guys were gods by quipping 'there's only one god ma'am, and I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that,' when shown the proof, many people just might side with the lavishly dressed God of Thunder. I mean, think about it on one side you've got an invisible, omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient being of which you can't find proper empirical proof, and on the other you've got a bloke firing lightning out of his arse on the evening news. When you compare the two, it just might be easier to believe the mythology, especially when one's wandering about in the flesh and eating shwarma in your local restaurant. People tend to flock to the proof, and that might be bad news for religion. So that's what I think. What do you think? Feel free to comment!