Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5880913-20121217041653/@comment-3343682-20140121204616

Tupka217 wrote: I have that with actors. Once I learn they're Scientologists, I immediately don't like them anymore.

That makes more sense in that context.

I understand I'm speaking more for myself than anyone (and I don't usually speak for others regardless), but I tend to leave my personal beliefs out of why I follow people, to a degree. It's not that some beliefs aren't inherently suspect (Scientology being a p. good example in terms of ethics), but it's more of a recognitions that they don't always matter, and there are a lot more qualities that determine whether someone should or shouldn't be looked up to.

This especially applies in the case of "real-life people touted as role models" versus "fictional character that, popular or not, is ultimately at the mercy of their writers and how they choose to portray said character" - again, explained earlier in the thread by Tupka, and quite well at that. And (again, speaking for myself from what I know) most supers aren't read and talked about as much as they are because of their religion necessarily.

Sometimes (especially in this thread, you know which comments I'm referencing), it comes across as an inability to put personal beliefs not matching aside for the sake of the oft-necessary suspension of disbelief, and that bugs me.