I like the idea as an intellectual exercise. "Which black hole is close enough (1011 light years, more or less, today) and clean enough to curve that light back around at us like a mirror into the past?" or "Does spacetime itself and the edge of time reverse the images? "
As for the religious connotations, they will be as useless as the blind belief in competition has been for the value of Life outside human imaginary friends.
Nature says, "It's just not about you. It's me. I'm sorry we won't see each other again after you are evicted."