The big screen documentary “Oh My God” asks people from all walks of life, from celebrities, to the religious, to atheists and the common Man – the question – “What is God?”
“I was frustrated with the childish schoolyard mentality that permeates this world – I call it the “My God Is Greater Than Your God” syndrome – where you have grown men flying airplanes into buildings shouting “God is Great” – where you have the leader of the free world telling the BBC in 2003 that he invaded Iraq because God told him to – where you have the constitution of a country (Iran) that dictates that its supreme leader is God’s representative on earth – where you have young men and women blowing themselves up (and innocent others) to buy a place into heaven. None of these concepts made any sense to me. Does it matter what I believe? Does it matter what you believe? And what is this entity that goes by the name of God – that causes so much friction, hurt and pain? So I decided to go around the world and ask people what they think. Over three years, I traveled across 23 countries asking this question; to children; to religious leaders; to celebrities; to fanatics and to the common Man. The film is a result of this journey. It is not about religion and the tribes in which people eke out their lives; the film is about what God means to people. The answers are sometimes predictable, and sometimes surprising. From birth and throughout our education we are conditioned as human beings; influenced by our parents, schools and the religious beliefs of our home country. If we have a religion, perhaps we should spend a little longer studying our chosen belief instead of blindly following other human beings who claim to have the authority of God. It seems evident that Man has taken the power and concept of God and politicized it for agendas that are the antipathies to the dignity and tolerance that the prophets of all the major religions preached in their day. Did Man create God, or did God create Man?” – “Oh My God” director Peter Rodger
