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We Need Monsters to Understand God: Godzilla vs. Kong and the Theological Use of Kaiju Films

By David Armstrong The main distinction between gods and monsters in ancient mythology was how they used their power. Marduk is a descendant of Tiamat, and Zeus of Kronos (and therefore a brother of Typhoios), and yet both gods are gods rather than monsters precisely because they use their abnormally excessive power to preserve, defend,…

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