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Jul

bono

   Posted by: richard   in Everyday Things, Quotes

A review of Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas by The Banty Rooster.
A taste,

Most interesting to me was an exchange which Assayas seems to not have intended - in fact, he quickly seems to “exit stage left.” But without prompting, Bono gives Assayas a lecture on his personal faith, what it is, what it means to him, and what Christianity is all about. It is straightforward, no rhetorical sleights-of-hand. Bono says that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the sacrificial lamb who died on the cross for my sins, and that he is the only hope I have in this life. He goes further: “Good works will never get me into heaven.” When Assayas challenges him by asking, “Surely Jesus was a profound teacher, but isn’t that ’son of God’ stuff a bit far-fetched?” Bono gives a brilliant dissertation on how one can simply not take Jesus as a “good moral teacher.” That’s precisely what the people of his day wanted, a prophet, a rabbi, and so forth. Jesus would have none of it. He claimed to be “Messiah,” even though it meant his death. Either Jesus was who he claimed to be, or he was a lunatic. And Bono rejects that he was a lunatic; he was the savior of the world.

Good stuff.

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That is good stuff. Good to hear that he gets it and isn’t afraid to straighten out the journalists. :-)

July 7th, 2005 at 0832

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