From The Daily Dish: The Daily Dish
In a review of the first English translation of Rilke's
Letters to God, Micah Mattix points to the poet's unconventional understanding
of Christianity:
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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In this second
letter, written in 1922 in the guise of a factory worker and addressed to the
deceased poet Emile Verhaeren, Rilke asks: "Who is this Christ that is
meddling in everything?" For Rilke, Christ is holy to the extent that he
embraced death and, therefore, life. He is an example of a life fully lived.
"I cannot believe," the poet writes, "that the cross was meant
to remain; rather, it was to mark the crossroads." People who worship
Christ, Rilke writes, are "like dogs that do not comprehend the meaning of
an index finger and think they have to snap at the hand."
Read more here: Marking The Crossroads
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