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When Sinkholes Attack! - Photo Gallery - LIFE
lol, can you imagine, if you store stuff under your bed lol... basil
When Sinkholes Attack! - Photo Gallery - LIFE
When Sinkholes Attack! - Photo Gallery - LIFE
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
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Bono on Jesus
From Bono in Conversation with Michka Assayas: “Jesus being God isn’t farfetched to me. Look, the secular response to the Christ story always goes like this: he was a great prophet, obviously a very interesting guy, had a lot to say along the lines of other great prophets, be they Elijah, Muhammad, Buddha, or Confucius. But actually Christ doesn’t allow you that. He doesn’t let you off that hook.
Christ says: ‘No. I’m not saying I’m a teacher, don’t call me teacher. I’m not saying I’m a prophet.’ I’m saying: ‘I’m the Messiah. I’m saying: ‘I am God incarnate.
And people say: ‘No, no, please, just be a prophet. A prophet, we can take. You’re a bit eccentric. We’ve had John the Baptist eating locusts and wild honey, we can handle that. But don’t mention the M word! Because, you know, we’re gonna have to crucify you.’
And he goes: ‘No, no. I know you’re expecting me to come back with an army, and set you free from these creeps, but actually I am the Messiah.’ At this point, everyone starts staring at their shoes, and says: ‘Oh, my God, he’s gonna keep saying this.’
So what you’re left with is: either Christ was who He said He was or a complete nutcase. I mean, we’re talking nutcase on the level of Charles Manson … This man was strapping himself to a bomb, and had King of the Jews on his head, and, as they were putting him up on the Cross, was going: ‘OK, martyrdom, here we go. Bring on the pain! I can take it.’
I’m not joking here. The idea that the entire course of civilization for over half of the globe could have its fate changed and turned upside-down by a nutcase, for me, that’s farfetched. When I look at the Cross of Christ, what I see up there is all my s— and everybody else’s. So I ask myself a question a lot of people have asked: Who is this man? And was He who He said He was, or was He just a religious nut? And there it is, and that’s the question…
But I love the idea of the Sacrificial Lamb. I love the idea that God says: ‘Look, you cretins, there are certain results to the way we are, to selfishness, and there’s a mortality as part of your very sinful nature, and, let’s face it, you’re not living a very good life, are you? There are consequences to actions.’ 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. That’s the point. It should keep us humbled. It’s not our own good works that get us through the gates of heaven.”
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