Very interesting. The words, tone, and stark graphics at first led me to believe this was by an atheist. By the end, I’m not sure about that.
Thought-provoking lines, I thought, about what might have happened if the Romans had just let Jesus alone, & comparing heaven/life-on-earth to the US/Mexico border. Very interesting!
*sigh* I wrote a response to you with links in and everything and tragically I seem to have lost it before I posted it. Here I go again…
I don’t know what the poet Jeffrey McDaniel believes/doesn’t believe. I found an interview with him that is interesting but didn’t shed much light on that particular topic.
I think Jeffrey is the reader in the video. Someone else - the animator Nick Gieg-fox - animated it and turned it into a video.
I like this poem for the same reasons as Eliza. I also enjoyed the imagery of televangelists selling peeks at God through their own personal keyhole.
Why is that God just happens to live right next door to them?
I like McDaniel’s parting line that he doesn’t even care if God really exists. I’ve wondered if God would care if we believe in him or not? I just don’t see why he would. I wouldn’t care about that, if I were God.
When I want those I love to not forget about me, I go to visit them every once in awhile.
Comment by: Eliza
1Very interesting. The words, tone, and stark graphics at first led me to believe this was by an atheist. By the end, I’m not sure about that.
Thought-provoking lines, I thought, about what might have happened if the Romans had just let Jesus alone, & comparing heaven/life-on-earth to the US/Mexico border. Very interesting!
Comment by: Helen
2Hi Eliza
*sigh* I wrote a response to you with links in and everything and tragically I seem to have lost it before I posted it. Here I go again…
I don’t know what the poet Jeffrey McDaniel believes/doesn’t believe. I found an interview with him that is interesting but didn’t shed much light on that particular topic.
I think Jeffrey is the reader in the video. Someone else - the animator Nick Gieg-fox - animated it and turned it into a video.
Comment by: Laura M.
3I like this poem for the same reasons as Eliza. I also enjoyed the imagery of televangelists selling peeks at God through their own personal keyhole.
Why is that God just happens to live right next door to them?
I like McDaniel’s parting line that he doesn’t even care if God really exists. I’ve wondered if God would care if we believe in him or not? I just don’t see why he would. I wouldn’t care about that, if I were God.
When I want those I love to not forget about me, I go to visit them every once in awhile.
Comment by: Helen
4Laura M wrote:
Sounds like a plan to me ;-)