Cut and paste this into your web address bar and read the most fascinating of articles...an extensive interview with Bono. There is too much here to pull out quotes, but get his perspective on all things. One little excerpt:What is your religious belief today? What is your concept of God?
If I could put it simply, I would say that I believe there's a force of love and logic in the world, a force of love and logic behind the universe. And I believe in the poetic genius of a creator who would choose to express such unfathomable power as a child born in "straw poverty"; i.e., the story of Christ makes sense to me.
How does it make sense?
As an artist, I see the poetry of it. It's so brilliant. That this scale of creation, and the unfathomable universe, should describe itself in such vulnerability, as a child. That is mind-blowing to me. I guess that would make me a Christian. Although I don't use the label, because it is so very hard to live up to. I feel like I'm the worst example of it, so I just kinda keep my mouth shut.
www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/8651280 If this doesn't work, just Google "Bono + Rolling Stone interview" and it will come up. Some day I'm going to learn how to make it a direct link.
3 comments:
That is awesome. cudos to Bono.
Were you guys at GM when bono had the star of david, a cross, and the crecent moon on a bandana? I believe his words were "this is the same as this, is the same as this". Am I the only one who senses ambiguity in bono's interpretation of what christianity is? Was this an isolated event? He is definitly cool though.
I was at GM Place and I just watched it again on the Vertigo DVD that came out. Here is a summary of the scene that happened at every concert:
What he does is he points to all three of these and says "All of these, all of these are sons of Abraham." Which I found quite fascinating, I knew it was something like tha, but wasn't exactly sure. He goes through this in the middle of "Sunday, Bloody Sunday," and the point is that all these religions at some point shared "father abraham" (he acutally mentions "father abraham in the concert), and now these peole are killing each other, and I think more than anything, Bono's question comes down to "what happened?"
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