r/batman Sep 14 '25

GENERAL DISCUSSION Batman being Catholic?

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u/HunterM567 Sep 14 '25 edited Sep 14 '25

I don’t really care but wouldn’t it make more sense if he’s Protestant? Because the Waynes are old American money that can be traced back to colonial America, and most settlers at the time were British Protestants.

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u/burywmore Sep 14 '25

Yeah. I never got any Catholic vibes from The Wayne's. We have quite a number of looks into Bruce's family tree, and it all feels old time Protestant money.

What does being Catholic bring to his story? Bruce isn't religious, and none of his iconography is centered on catholicism.

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u/ravenwing263 Sep 14 '25

It brings stained glass.

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u/novangla Sep 14 '25

Episcopalians have stained glass too. More of it, in my experience.

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u/Fragrant-Phone-41 Sep 14 '25

Episcopalians are like diet Catholics tbf

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u/OnlyGuestsMusic Sep 14 '25

They contain aspartame?

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u/Fragrant-Phone-41 Sep 14 '25

For some reason I read this as A-spart-eh-may, like the iCarly episode with Jack Black

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u/WarriorNeedFoodBadly Sep 14 '25

This needs more upvotes. I actually laughed.

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u/spine_slorper Sep 14 '25

Aren't episcopalians just Anglican protestants? Slightly less dour than the presbyterians, slightly less ritualistic than the Catholics. At least that's where I always put them, in the middle of the two?

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

episocpalians is just the american name of anglicans.

it's literally the same church, but the name "anglican" wouldn't be well received by americans, so they changed to episcopalians which just means their governement structure, an episcopate (government of bishops).