hey, i was on google and found this site. What's your opinean about it?
Heres the site of it as well:
http://cleave.blogs.com/pomomusings/2005/12/bonos_call_to_c.html
Bono's call to "Coexist"
I use to read Relevant Magazine, but after awhile, I just got tired of many articles that seemed to be saying the same things, and honestly, got a little tired of the pretty conservative theology of the magazine. I ran across a post on Doug's blog (here) about an article that was included in the 12/19 850 Words of Relevant written by Tara Leigh Cobble (picture on left) entitled "How to Dismantle an Idolized Bono" (the article is actually available on Tara's message board on her website here and it is also being discussed on this Relevant message board).
In the article, Tara was critiquing the current Christian idolization of Bono (which is a good thing I think), but had major problems with his apparent universalism. First of all, Bono was sporting a headband with the Coexist logo on it (apparently, there is a clothing company that came up with the logo). She quotes Bono as beginning to lead the crowd (at a Madison Square Garden performance) in the mantra of..."Jesus, Jew, Mohammed, all true. Jesus, Jew, Mohammed, all true." I listened to the Relevant podcast, where Relevant staffers were discussing the article, and it was made clear by emails they were reading from readers that from the very beginning, Tara's article is flawed because that was simply a misquote of Bono. Apparently he was saying, "Jesus, Jew, Mohammed, it's true...all sons of Abraham." And Bono's call to coexistance was more of a plea for the people of the world's 3 major religions to stop killing each other, instead of a call to radical universalism.
It was a pretty disturbing experience for Tara, as you can see from this quote below:
"When he stated that lie so boldly, it devastated me. It was, without question, the most disturbing experience of my life; I felt like I’d been covered in bile. As I looked around, I saw all the people standing and chanting with him-it was disgusting and beautiful all at once. Unity can be so enticing. It made me think of the one world religion and how that will probably look benign and beautiful from the outside, too. I even started to wonder if universalism just might be poised to be that religion. All these things were running through my head.
After the show, I ran into a friend who had been sitting in the back row. “What did you think of that headband thing?” I asked. “Well, I couldn’t hear what he was saying because it was bouncing off the wall behind me, and I couldn’t read the headband, because I wasn’t near a JumboTron. But honestly, I felt like I was witnessing an antichrist.” I stood frozen as she spoke. I’d had the same feeling."
Heres the site of it as well:
http://cleave.blogs.com/pomomusings/2005/12/bonos_call_to_c.html
Bono's call to "Coexist"
I use to read Relevant Magazine, but after awhile, I just got tired of many articles that seemed to be saying the same things, and honestly, got a little tired of the pretty conservative theology of the magazine. I ran across a post on Doug's blog (here) about an article that was included in the 12/19 850 Words of Relevant written by Tara Leigh Cobble (picture on left) entitled "How to Dismantle an Idolized Bono" (the article is actually available on Tara's message board on her website here and it is also being discussed on this Relevant message board).
In the article, Tara was critiquing the current Christian idolization of Bono (which is a good thing I think), but had major problems with his apparent universalism. First of all, Bono was sporting a headband with the Coexist logo on it (apparently, there is a clothing company that came up with the logo). She quotes Bono as beginning to lead the crowd (at a Madison Square Garden performance) in the mantra of..."Jesus, Jew, Mohammed, all true. Jesus, Jew, Mohammed, all true." I listened to the Relevant podcast, where Relevant staffers were discussing the article, and it was made clear by emails they were reading from readers that from the very beginning, Tara's article is flawed because that was simply a misquote of Bono. Apparently he was saying, "Jesus, Jew, Mohammed, it's true...all sons of Abraham." And Bono's call to coexistance was more of a plea for the people of the world's 3 major religions to stop killing each other, instead of a call to radical universalism.
It was a pretty disturbing experience for Tara, as you can see from this quote below:
"When he stated that lie so boldly, it devastated me. It was, without question, the most disturbing experience of my life; I felt like I’d been covered in bile. As I looked around, I saw all the people standing and chanting with him-it was disgusting and beautiful all at once. Unity can be so enticing. It made me think of the one world religion and how that will probably look benign and beautiful from the outside, too. I even started to wonder if universalism just might be poised to be that religion. All these things were running through my head.
After the show, I ran into a friend who had been sitting in the back row. “What did you think of that headband thing?” I asked. “Well, I couldn’t hear what he was saying because it was bouncing off the wall behind me, and I couldn’t read the headband, because I wasn’t near a JumboTron. But honestly, I felt like I was witnessing an antichrist.” I stood frozen as she spoke. I’d had the same feeling."