I was born Jewish but raised Catholic ('mixed marriage'). I watched this series every Sunday morning with joy and delight. Discovering a low cost DVD of 6 episodes, I watched with hesitation, fearful my memory had betrayed me. It hadn't - this is a wonderful animated series for all children of any of the traditions of Western religions.
Besides the wonderful stop-motion animation, the characters are supremely well-drawn, and the lessons learned here concern everyday ethical choices that face the young, without unnecessary political intrusions.
Speaking about which - and the reader should be warned, I will get totally personal here - I hate the religious right (Falwell, Robertson, etc., etc.) for insisting on a 'christian' totalitarianism. Davey and Goliath belong to an older, longer lasting, better tradition of Christian ethics - not theocratic, not homophobic, not racist, not fearful of Muslim others, but a Christian tradition based on love and the willingness to go the extra mile for others because this is what Christ asks us to do.
God bless Davey and Goliath; you probably know what I wish God would do to phony Right religionists.
This series is a memory of what America once was, before the right-wingers decided what it should be.
Besides the wonderful stop-motion animation, the characters are supremely well-drawn, and the lessons learned here concern everyday ethical choices that face the young, without unnecessary political intrusions.
Speaking about which - and the reader should be warned, I will get totally personal here - I hate the religious right (Falwell, Robertson, etc., etc.) for insisting on a 'christian' totalitarianism. Davey and Goliath belong to an older, longer lasting, better tradition of Christian ethics - not theocratic, not homophobic, not racist, not fearful of Muslim others, but a Christian tradition based on love and the willingness to go the extra mile for others because this is what Christ asks us to do.
God bless Davey and Goliath; you probably know what I wish God would do to phony Right religionists.
This series is a memory of what America once was, before the right-wingers decided what it should be.