David’s psalms describe his journey through valleys and locations and how he comes out of his treks protected and victorious thanks to a greater power based on his will and faith. David’s psalms were focused on his opponents and through many of them he affirmed his conviction that he would prevail, with the help of Jehovah. The Psalms are much like the Green Lantern oath as they are words spoken before a war and a combat with an enemy. The Jewish figure, David was credited with the authoring the psalms. Thus, I think rather than a prayer, the Green Lantern is closer to a psalm. While the Green Lantern oath is very much a communal action, it is also focused on strengthening the individual through his own power. Prayer can be personal and a communion with one’s beliefs and deity. But the Green Lantern oath, just like a prayer can probably be easily adapted to music and sung. It is always meant to be recited almost like a poem and not an anthem. There has never been, to my knowledge a musical version of the Green Lantern oath. The Green Lantern oath is not like an anthem, although it could function like one for one reason, music.
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At once the Green Lantern oath becomes a secular recital in a comic book that should be free from overt religions. It’s interesting that the term Green Lantern is so loosely defined and has so many meanings hiding the possible religious and worship behind many possible targets. When the Green Lantern says “Beware my power, Green Lantern’s light,” he is referring partly to himself, the organization he serves, the power he wields and the Green Lantern artefact he holds in his hands to recharge his ring. The difference with the regular Green Lantern oath and a regular prayer is that the Green Lantern is not praying to a deity or ancestors, but his praying to an organization that is at once a source of power, a person and a relic. Prayer is done to renew faith and strengthen and affirm the beliefs of the individual. This recantation of faith has many religious parallels which is why I see a link with prayer. Reciting the Green Lantern oath is a ritual it seems created to renew the Green Lantern to his faith, the organization he serves. Although many Green Lanterns over the years have had oaths of their own, which they recite when recharging their green lantern rings within the power battery, it is the one used by Green Lantern Hal Jordan that has remained the most used and is the best known. It is more streamlined and clear, than the one used by Alan Scott. It’s form was different than the one quote above, with It has been modified over the years. The Green Lantern oath was first introduced in the early Golden Age stories of the first published Green Lantern, Alan Scott. Religion and Comics Is the Green Lantern Oath a Prayer?
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