Bono in conversation
Mitt eksemplar av "Bono in coversation with Michka Assayas" er tilbake i hus etter at Anders Egeland har lånt den en periode. Det var et hjertelig gjensyn! Et av høydepunktene for min del er når en samtale om terrorisme utvikler seg til en samtale om religion.
"My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love. What does that mean? What it means for me: a study of the life of Christ. Love here describes itself as a child born in straw poverty, the most vulnerable situation of all, without honor. I don´t let my religious world get too complicated. I just kind of go: Well, I think I know what God is. God is love, and as as much as I respond (sighs) in allowing myself to be tranformed by that love and acting in that love, that´s my religion. Where things get complicated for me, is when I try to live this love. Now, that´s not so easy.
What about the God of the Old Testament? He wasn´t so “peace and love.”
Theres nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is. I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are turning amok, wayward. Maybe thats why they are so relatable. But the way we would see it, those of us who are trying to figure our our Christian conundrum (a confusing or difficult question,min anmrkn.), is that the God of the Old Testament is like the journey from stern father to friend. When you´re a child, you need clear directions and some strict rules. But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross."
Copyright © 2005 by M. Assayas. Riverhead Books, New York: 2005
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