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You’ll find that Bono wrote a poem for Billy Graham lauding the evangelist for his effort to “reach the world with the Gospel message, offering the free gift of peace with God to millions.” And you’ll read about Bono and the band’s philanthropic efforts-from AIDS relief to poverty alleviation-and how faith has been a motivating factor of this work.

There are gobs of similar comments in interviews accessible by a simple Google search. We pray with all our kids, we read the Scriptures, we pray.” It’s just a bunch of us on the bed, usually, we’ve a very big bed in our house. “We don’t do it in a very lofty way in our family. “I pray to get to know the will of God, because then the prayers have more chance of coming true - I mean, that’s the thing about prayer,” Bono told Ireland’s RTE One. If you want something more heartfelt, you might reference when Bono noted that he and his family maintain a vibrant prayer life: In another interview, Bono wasn’t waffling when he articulated a view of the atonement of Jesus: “The point of the death of Christ is that Christ took on the sins of the world, so that what we put out did not come back to us, and that our sinful nature does not reap the obvious death.” Lead singer Bono is so comfortable talking about his Christian faith that he even agreed to be interviewed by “Focus on the Family.” In it, he spoke to Focus’ president Jim Daly about how much he liked King David and said he believes that “ Jesus was, you know, the Son of God.” In “Bullet the Blue Sky,” for example, they sing about Jacob wrestling with the Angel of the Lord ( Genesis 32) and there is a reference to speaking with “the tongues of angels” ( 1 Corinthians 13) in “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” Bono even belts “see the thorn twist in your side”-an obvious reference to the Apostle Paul’s words in 2 Corinthians 12:7-in the song “With or Without You.” If you carefully attune your ears to U2’s lyrics, you’ll find there are 50 or more references to Bible verses in their songs. Even a cursory look at the band’s beliefs and song lyrics show that they are very much out of the Christian closet. In an article for The New Yorker titled “ The Church of U2,”Joshua Rothman explored “confusion” around U2’s faith and claimed that they are a “semi-secretly Christian rock band.”īut applying such a label to U2 generally and their sunglasses-clad singer, Bono, seems difficult to defend. The same month that U2 released their 13th studio album, “ Songs of Innocence,” the spotlight has turned to the iconic rock band’s faith. If U2’s faith is a secret, like a writer for The New Yorker suggested, it is one of the worst kept ones in the global music industry today.

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