09-12-2013, 01:03 AM
(09-12-2013, 12:01 AM)trueenigma Wrote: The guy that this is about had no doubt about which God he felt saved him!Hey,,,some of my bestfriends are American...well, one is. Somtimes he says he is going to communi-rooney! He says that....but I'v never seem him go near a church. I know nothing about religion. Only what's on youtube. It works for me. This isn't an ecumenical matter. It's a poem about a man who found god.
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That doesn't explain why he calls it the american god.He didn't. It's the title of the poem.
Neither the title or the poem consider that christianity is not exclusive to America, not is America exclusively Christian, our even exclusive to one form of christianity. And christianity did not originate in america!
Neither the title or the poem considers the wide range of American regional vernaculars, which are quite diverse, and can vary from neighborhood to neighborhood, so the american reader is forced to try and compare it to their own manners of speech*, which leads to strange awkwardness-es.
Or whatever perceived notions they may have about whichever region they /assume/the poem is looking at, which are bound to be different from yours.
Preconceived. Not perceived.
So you like a bit more, then
Best,
tectak