The Church of Doc Manhattan of Latter-Day Superheroes

Brian Doherty | 3.16.2009 3:34 PM

I defended Rorschach's Objectivist bona fides here on Reason Online the other week. Today at the American Spectator, Reason magazine contributor Jeremy Lott explains how Watchmen's only truly super hero, Doc Manhattan, makes a fair stand-in for the Mormon conception of God.

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The Church of Doc Manhattan of Latter-Day Superheroes

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