El, they wish to  be, they only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above  all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you, my only son."  There would have been more religious references in the sequel if  director Richard Donner (qv) would have been allowed to play out  the story of Supermans fall and resurrection and his battle with  evil in "Superman II". Unfortunately, he was fired and replaced by  Richard Lester , who did not respect the Superman character or the  mythology.