Are superheroes the new gods?

In a typically brilliant article Anne Billson argues that superheroes are the new god and laments the lack of what, in The Guardian, would be called female gods:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10125441/Man-of-Steel-Are-superheroes-the-new-gods.html

I came later to graphic novels after giving up Batman  comics at the age of 11, but ultimately I gave in and read Watchmen before seeing the film.  The graphic novel was superb in its range and execution, and its episodic structure made it difficult to adapt into a coherent story (would it have worked better as TV series?), but ultimately I missed the words.

The film was close to its source in many scenes which were famed exactly as drawn, but i think i would have enjoyed the film as much without having read the novel.

I've never been a Superman fan, but loved the X-Men (especially the first two films) and the Christopher Nolan Batman reboot, ie the Dark Knight Trilogy.  However my all time favourite superhero films have to be Hellboy and Hellboy and the Golden Army.