Spidey and Religion - Power and Responsibility

Well, you've seen my political analogy to George W and our current situation
Other people have responded to the movie's philosophy. In case, you don't want to register with Dallas Morning News, as the title link requests, here's some excerpts:

"Smack in the emotional heart of the new Spider-Man movie, which opens today, is the most famous line ever written for a comic book. It was the center of the first Spider-Man movie, too, pretty much the way Stan Lee wrote it 42 years ago:
"With great power there must also come – great responsibility." ....
"The theme that responsibility and power are webbed together is also found in many religious and ethical traditions. In fact, it's such a universal human conflict that even egghead theologians are inclined to nod respectfully at this particular comic book hero... "The whole Hebrew Bible is one long story about the just use of power," said Rabbi David Stern of Temple Emanu-El in Dallas. "From Adam and Eve onward, there is the idea that we are endowed with unique power by being created in God's image and that the power automatically entails responsibility." ...Christians hear ... (in) Luke: "From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required, and from the one to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be demanded." ...Present-day real heroes often recognize that the power to do the right thing entails responsibility to act, said Samuel Oliner, author of Do Unto Others: Extraordinary Acts of Ordinary People. "This inner conversation is actually real: 'What will I tell my children? What will I tell myself if I don't act?' " he said. "You aren't allowed to be a bystander." ... In the original telling of the tale by Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, Peter gains his powers and decides to make a buck – and nothing more. He lets a robber run by and discovers a few comic panels later that the same criminal has subsequently murdered his beloved Uncle Ben. In addition to religious traditions, the idea for the line could have emerged from the current events of the day. Questions about power and responsibility filled the headlines of the early 1960s even as they fill the headlines of the current millennium: President John F. Kennedy had recently told the nation to "ask not what your country can do for you ..." The Cold War was near-hot with the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Civil Rights movement was leaping into the headlines. The space race was flinging Americans and Soviets into orbit. Stan was just starting his revolution at Marvel Comics, co-creating a bullpen of unusually conflicted characters. So did world events or religious themes inspire the famous line? ..."I'd love to say that I was inspired by things happening in the world such as the civil rights movement or an impending war, or even a previous war, or politics or whatever," Stan, now 81, said this week. "But I really think it was just a phrase that came to me and it sounded good, and I wrote it down and continued writing without giving it much more thought," he said.