"The stone walls of the chapel seem to grow out of the earth itself, while the pristine waters of the stream cascade in the distance. Deer, birds, rabbits, even a frog gather in humble and silent witness to the unity and harmony of the creation. And over all, the glorious vault of the heavens unfolds another glistening morning.
— Thomas Kinkade"
Just because Thomas Kinkade pronounces something To Be So, does not make it so, unlike when the real God does it. Nothing in this creepy cartoon suggest via any artistic virtuosity that the stone walls of this "chapel" grew out of the earth. This does not make even one lick of sense, not visually, not metaphorically, not symbolically, not with even the most muscular imagination available to the most imaginative human being on either side of an insane asylum. It looks like a frigid, cold uninhabited structure made from blueprints drawn-up by a simpleton who failed design school that is just plopped down into place by the hand of a gigantic cupie doll. And what is the "creation" that these farm animals are so mystically attracted to like
enlightened renunciants? That sterile wooden eerie lifeless structure in the middle of nowhere? This is what has so mesmerized them? And why is that: because of some potion in the purple trees that leeches into the water supply? "...even a frog...." Well, my, my: a FROG, you say!....I'll take it!! These animals ARE Christians, I take it? I only ask because I do not see any cross of Chrstianity depicted on this building. Maybe it hasn't come up out of the ground yet.
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