Comments on: Bono, U2 and Christianity http://de-conversion.com/2007/04/19/u2-and-christianity/ Resources for skeptical, de-converting, or former Christians...... Mon, 20 May 2013 23:35:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bono atheism | Imageyoo http://de-conversion.com/2007/04/19/u2-and-christianity/#comment-53967 Wed, 23 May 2012 02:19:04 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/is-bono-u2-backsliding-towards-christianity/#comment-53967 [...] Bono, U2 and Christianity « de-conversionApr 19, 2007 … Entry filed under: The de-Convert. Tags: agnostic, atheism, Bible, Bono, christianity, faith, freethinking, religion, skepticism, spirituality, theology, … [...]

]]> By: rick http://de-conversion.com/2007/04/19/u2-and-christianity/#comment-51676 Sun, 15 May 2011 23:15:12 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/is-bono-u2-backsliding-towards-christianity/#comment-51676 being a christian is different to being religious. Not all christians are religious for example they do not conform to the churches religious idiology but they believe that Jesus is the son of God. To be a christian is to live in a Christ like manner serving others and treating everyone as family. Bono is a christian he is not religious.
look into it

]]> By: phyllis http://de-conversion.com/2007/04/19/u2-and-christianity/#comment-50480 Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:10:57 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/is-bono-u2-backsliding-towards-christianity/#comment-50480 @Isabelle,
think about where Bono is from. He is from Ireland where people have a faith that runs deep, but is is also divided by religion. It has been a bloody and violent history. Some people, myself included, don’t like to talk about it because it’s private. I’ll talk if asked, but I don’t want to shove it down anyone’s throat or have it be shoved down my throat.
So he isn’t a Christian if he isn’t doing what you think a Christian should do?

]]> By: Isabelle http://de-conversion.com/2007/04/19/u2-and-christianity/#comment-38177 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:34:41 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/is-bono-u2-backsliding-towards-christianity/#comment-38177 Why does anyone even think Bono is a Christian? So he used Jesus in a few lyrics and quotes scripture?? I went to their last concert recently and didn’t hear anything about Christ or the Gospel! How can you have a huge audience hanging on your every word and not use that as an opportunity to witness?? I don’t see it.

]]> By: Lynx http://de-conversion.com/2007/04/19/u2-and-christianity/#comment-36434 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:36:41 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/is-bono-u2-backsliding-towards-christianity/#comment-36434 Well Jeff, perhaps evolution will select the best for the planet’s sake and totally eliminate men. It’s men who have the thirst for power and control that have held us back as a species. God is just another excuse men have used to put us on the brink of extinction. Instead of the Atheists pointing fingers at the Christians and Muslims who in turn point their fingers back, why don’t we all work to come together for the common good of everyone. I think Bono is a good example of what the spirit of Christ means to most Christians. People only see the celebrity and forget this is a man who went to Africa in the mid 80′s where he shoveled dung and helped carry the bodies of children who could not be saved. He’s seen the worst of Humanity and still strives to better the World. He believes in God which puts him in the “unenlightened” crowd the militant Atheists would put him in. Tell that to the lives of Africans he’s helped. The true evil of religion is those who use it destroy and suppress.

]]> By: Jeff Perry http://de-conversion.com/2007/04/19/u2-and-christianity/#comment-36215 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:31:16 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/is-bono-u2-backsliding-towards-christianity/#comment-36215 Come on guys. Use your heads. There is no god and it’s time to grow up. Theology has held us back as a species and this message board concerns me. Hopefully, evolution will select for the enlightened among us.

]]> By: Steve http://de-conversion.com/2007/04/19/u2-and-christianity/#comment-32090 Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:19:36 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/is-bono-u2-backsliding-towards-christianity/#comment-32090 I think you’re misinterpretting U2. Here’s a link to excerpts of a 2005 interview with Bono in which he is very obviously witnessing to the interviewer:
http://www.worldmag.com/articles/10892

My interpretation of “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for,” is that we should keep striving for union with God Almighty even though we can’t achieve it in full in this life.

I’m not as familiar with the other songs, so I can’t speak to those lyrics in context. I certainly wouldn’t doubt Bono capable of criticizing hypocrites who exploit in the name of the church.

]]> By: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For « U2008 http://de-conversion.com/2007/04/19/u2-and-christianity/#comment-20323 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:17:28 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/is-bono-u2-backsliding-towards-christianity/#comment-20323 [...] or Without You” and “Streets”. It’s also the song that seemingly baffles the Christian community and believers, or at least is divisive; cue plenty of “are U2 really [...]

]]> By: John http://de-conversion.com/2007/04/19/u2-and-christianity/#comment-19527 Sun, 25 May 2008 15:48:46 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/is-bono-u2-backsliding-towards-christianity/#comment-19527 In the Old Testament, it was an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. But in the New Testament, Jesus says “That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.” Matthew 5:39.

And in Hebrews 13; “In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.”

The new teaching replaces the old…

]]> By: Dan Barnett http://de-conversion.com/2007/04/19/u2-and-christianity/#comment-714 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:36:46 +0000 http://agnosticatheism.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/is-bono-u2-backsliding-towards-christianity/#comment-714 Aa (comment #9)

Most of my knowledge of the Bible is the NT. I appreciate you reminding me of those passages. Yet, I still do believ that in the context of those situations, God is completely within his own rights. The OT is mainly about God’s relationship with his chosen nation, Isarael. When they walked with him, he handed their enemies over to them and prospered them. When they turned from him(and still do today) he handed them to their enemies to show his power and control. I’m not going to deeply argue this one with you, but I have made my point.

On the book, I haven’t gotten to the ‘Hell’ chapter yet. I’m interested to discuss it when I do. I loaned the book to a friend who is returning it this week. I just enjoyed seeing an atheist journalist exploring and finding answers and seeing him come to Christ thorugh it.

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