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ParanoidObsessive posted...

And there's plenty of literature out there that humanizes or even protagonizes people who are arguably just as bad (if not worse - stuff like Paradise Lost and Lucifer basically present the literal Devil himself as a relatively nice, likeable guy. Actually, Satan-as-Good is actually a damned common trope in a lot of fiction, now that I think about it - http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SatanIsGood ). No matter how hung up people may be on the Holocaust or WWII in general, it's pretty much inevitable that we're eventually going to start seeing more and more nuanced versions of hitler showing up over time.

Though if people are annoyed by hitler, I wonder how many people are going to shit themselves if/when they get around to the arc where it turns out that God is and has always been a massive asshole, who then gets murdered and replaced by the Saint of Killers. Because like 90% of the point of Preacher is shitting on the entire concept of religion.

The difference is hitler actually existed and his crimes against humanity are real and documented.
Religious and mythological beings like Satan or God may or may not exist and even if they do, we have no idea what sort of atrocities they may have committed.
It's like saying that a Batman comic that humanizes The Joker is the same thing as a tv show humanizing hitler. The Joker has never killed, tortured, enslaved, or otherwise harmed a single real life person...that we're aware of... It's not the same.