Bono interview

The current issue of Rolling Stone contains an excellent interview with Bono, the lead singer of the band U2. The third section of the interview discusses his Christianity, the nature of which has been a topic of debate among Christians and at Patrick Henry College. I don't think this interview will convince all conservative evangelicals that Bono is a Christian. Though this article and another recently published quote certainly seem to indicate that Bono is a Christian, I can't tell you for sure of his status. It doesn't matter to you or me, though, just him and God; all I can say is that he says some good things:

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.

His answer to the last question in the interview reflected a changed attitude toward conservative Christians similar to an attitude change I've been coming to in the past year.

read the article

Quotes

Quotes from a work of literature I'm reading for the first time, and a film that I just saw for the second time. Tell me the work from which either quote was taken, and I will leave you a message on your blog telling you that you won. If you don't guess, you can't win!

The book

"Is it possible!" repeated D------, bitterly. "Yes. And a beautiful world we live in when it is possible, and when many other things are possible, and not only possible, but done–done, see you!–under that sky there, every day. Long live the Devil. Let us go on."

The film

"How I envy the young. For them everything is so clear. Things seem to be either one way or another. It is only with a little age that you begin to see life as a series of compromises. But even in compromising one must draw a line."

Using google, the IMDB, wikiquote, or similar searches is cheating, of course.

Columbus day

Remembering Christopher Columbus who, at the close of the 15th century, thrust into European consciousness the knowledge that it is a global world, after all.

Meme

Obligatory meme that everyone else is doing:

Go into your archive.
Find your 23rd post (or closest to).
Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.

And the winner is:
$4.
From Items for sale. I never sold any of the things I listed in the post.