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The Religious Affiliation of Comic Book Character
Ivan Kragoff
Red Ghost
Russian Communist super-villain


Ivan Kragoff, better known as the Red Ghost, is a long-time enemy of the Fantastic Four. He has also fought against many other Marvel super-heroes. Kragoff was brought up in Soviet Marxist Communism as his primary religious affiliation.

See:
http://www.samcci.comics.org/reviews/review016.htm

Discussion

Excerpts from: "Atheist superheroes" discussion page, started 2 March 2006, on "Atheist Network" website (http://atheistnetwork.com/viewtopic.php?p=209834&sid=5ca5d2a99f2714e2f90fcee608eb4ac4; viewed 26 May 2006):
Aghast
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:42 am

...not surprisingly more villains are revealed to be atheists than heroes: Lex Luthor, The Joker, Kingpin, Green Goblin, Sabertooth, the Leader, Abomination, Carnage, Red Ghost.

Usually, religion tends to be mostly ignored in comics and most often when it is addressed it tends to be treated fairly rough. How many times has the religious fanatic... bent on murder and mayhem been the villian of a comic?


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