Henry Rollins

I didn't see an Easter Bunny option.

"He's Thor."

"I'll bet."

(Evening Shade)

Your list is a little heavy on the penises...let's get a female goddess in there, like Baubo, the goddess of thongs and tequila...

Thor cause his wife is into flowers and bunnies and stuff.

Thor was my Norwegian grandfather's name, but I'm gonna have to go with Loki here. All the mischief would be too fun to pass up.

Great poll for secretly spotting how many conservatives read Slog.

Ra is the Sun God! Ra is the Fun God! Ra! Ra! Ra!

Though I admit, I've always been partial to Ninkasi myself.

Funny, I was just reading this article before lunch:
http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/16/t…

Anansi and Raven are pretty cool too.

@2 Jesus IS The Easter Bunny. They try to kill him he doesn't die. He comes up out of his hole and only craps candy and other good things.

All hail Sagan.

By Loki you meant Mickey Rourke's late dog, right? .

Norse mythology and Christianity lived side-by-side for almost 1,000 years in predominantly Christian Scandinavia. Not to imply Jesus and Thor were ever friends. I'd guess they'd have a very different design sense.

Abstained because Optimus Prime was not included.

I like that the poll is who I'd rather have it be, assuming it had to be one.

As a lifelong softy, I have to go with the one least likely to arbitrarily torment or behead me, or exhort me to do that to anybody else. Plus I've always preferred slender, not terribly muscly fellows. My choice is clear, if a little trite.

The Poetic Edda's "Lokasenna" is a particularly brilliant bit of poetry.

Here's the theme song:

Well, I've got a hammer
and I've got a bell
and I've got a song to sing
all over this land
It's the hammer of justice
It's the bell of freedom
It's a song about love between my
brothers and my sisters
all over this land

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UKvpONl3…

My money's on Trickster every time (the Real Trickster, not any of those gelded monotheist tricksters). Trickster makes the world.

I vote Thor. At least thunder is not imaginary.

The thunder god went for a ride
Upon his fine new filly.
"I'm Thor!" he cried,
And the horse replied,
"You forgot your thaddle, thilly!"

Team Loki!

A duel between Jesus and Thor would be a non-starter. On one side, a guy who throws lighting. On the other side, a guy on a wooden pole on top of a hill. See where this is going? I mean, Jesus, why not just fly a kite with a key attached to it.

No Thor? No Hammer. Know Thor! Know HAMMER!

All hail Melkor, lord of Utumno!

FSM FTW!

I'm torn between Cthulhu or J.R. "Bob" Dobbs.

i'm in a ( fairly )long term monagamous relationship with jesus of nazareth but i do fantasize about hercules and'nem from time to time.

Thor carries a hammer, and Jesus has trouble with nails. It wouldn't be a fair fight.

I think Asgard is a pretty cool guy. Eh throws Mjollnir around and doesn't afraid of anything.

I'm not so sure I'd call this passive-aggressive. What's the better alternative for this anonymous person to express their point of view? To stand by the poster and yell at people about the lord? That would have been more annoying and the dude/gal probably didn't have the time, I mean we're all busy beavers in Seattle right?

By personal Lord and Savior, you meant fuckbuddy, right? Cause I picked Thor.

27 I'm also a Pastafarian. I don't want to start a whole carbo-logical debate but shouldn't our personal savior be a pirate of some sort?

If so, I'm going with Westley as Dread Pirate Roberts.

Let's make that big-budget special-effects extravaganza where Jesus kicks ass and blows up a lot of shit, where all the bad guys die horribly (because of their own last minute actions, not direct smiting) and Jesus gets the girl (or hey, the boy, or the gang-bang of 12), and then let's talk.

Thor has a hit movie, a cool comic book, a great costume, and good writers.
Jesus has…. Christians.

No contest. Let's even up the odds a bit and have the poll again on an even playing field.

@32
"What's the better alternative for this anonymous person to express their point of view?"

The real answer is to put up a sign somewhere that doesn't deface the movie poster that says, "After you enjoy the movie, join us at (insert church of choice here) and we'll show you what a real God looks like!"

If someone deliberately set out to put together an effort to discredit Christianity, they could hardly do better than today's Christians do on their own.

35 Didn't Mel Gibson make some big budget torture porn featuring Jesus?

There's that.

Tyr. He'd give his left hand to help out his friends.

Captain America, but only if played by Chris Evans

Come on. If this had been a pro-gay or anti-homophobia note tacked up in front of a sign for the Republican National Convention, would you still be calling it "passive aggressive"? Then it would be "subversive" or even just "funny." This is a harmless note promoting Jesus. Give Christians who aren't messing with you a break.

@41 Oh shut the fuck up. Christians have literally all fucking eternity in heaven to be given breaks, if their insanity is to be believed. Meanwhile promoting Jesus isn't harmless, it promotes magical thinking, ignorance and herd behavior and denigrates critical thinking. Promoting superstitious bullshit that corrupts the minds of billions into wanting to strip away a woman's right to her own body and a child's right to receive an education based on reality is messing with society and such actions should be loudly and vigorously rebuked at every opportunity until every practitioner of such nonsense shuts the hell up.

@43: It's vandalism. And Jesus hated vandals.

ASTARTE, where is ASTARTE, we just celebrated and I can't find her now...

Not all Christians are crazy or ignorant. I'm still abstaining from the poll, though.

And I almost found the poster funny, because it's kind of absurd, isn't it? It just makes me think of the Christians who were against Harry Potter. People are going to see something for entertainment value, not to have a religious experience with magic or mythology. (Well, generally, anyway.)

I know that a lot of Christians are conservative, but some of us have been calling and emailing politicians, spreading the word through friends, and engaging in protests to support Planned Parenthood, same-sex marriage, and a host of other liberal causes. I've even managed to convince my conservative mother to support LGBT rights, in part by using Scripture.

I don't mind if you think it's hogwash. You're entitled to believe what you want. But the root of the disease isn't Christianity, I think. The Bible is just the excuse used by people who want to control the lives of others, make their own lives easier, etc, all while making the person making exudes feel righteous.

But, anyway, I don't want to start an argument. I just thought I'd offer a differing viewpoint. I really hope that my tone carries properly...

Okay but I still get to fuck Thor, right?