What religion is Indiana Jones
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fjk1138-731-161881 — 9 years ago(January 04, 2017 07:51 AM)
I would argue he has a Christian background but is non practicing. Considering he studies ancient cultures and their beliefs, he might keep his beliefs in his back pocket, so to speak. His adventures reveal all sorts of magic and miracles but he keeps an open mind regardless. There never is a moment in any of the films where he declares himself a true believer, despite what Mola Ram claims, though he does look incredulous when the stones light up.
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jschillig — 2 years ago(May 25, 2023 03:23 PM)
My headcanon is that he was raised Christian, became more skeptical in his adult years, but discovered his faith again after the events of the first three movies. But even though he leans toward Christianity as a practice, he considers himself sort of non-denominational…taking a "blind men and the elephant" attitude towards the world's various religious traditions. (That is to say, believing that different faiths all approach the Divine in different ways, and that we'd do better to listen to and learn from each other than to argue ourselves blue in the face–or worse–over which one has the absolute truth.)
I'd also theorize that he still doesn't have a whole lot of truck with the organized part of religion (which is why he doesn't make Sunday service as often as his father would like)…that his God is the God of the Grail, with a purpose to heal and to help. Which isn't always the God preached from the pulpit.