Re: Interview

["Peter T. Chattaway" <petert@interchange.ubc.ca>]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Aaron Edwards wrote:
> Notice how noone said a darn thing when bono said in "Wake up Dead Man"
> (from Pop), "And a f---ed up world it is to." Of course, U2 is not
> considered Christian (even though three out of four members are, in
> fact, Christians).

They're considered Christian enough for many people -- Christianity
Today's sister publication Campus Life used to run cover stories on them
and promote them as a Christian band back during the _War_ /
_Unforgettable Fire_ / _Joshua Tree_ era.  I think many Christians were
even willing to tolerate that "Fuck the revolution" bit in _Rattle and
Hum_.  The problem with a song like 'Wake Up Dead Man' would not have been
the f-word, but the fact that it refers to Jesus as, well, a "Dead Man".  
I'm perfectly willing to accept the song as a Job-like cry of despair,
myself, but for the more narrow-minded Christians, _Pop_ as a whole was an
exercise in are-they-still-Christian-or-are-they-not-still-Christian.

> I wonder what kind of language the former fishermen, whom Jesus called
> Disciples used. No doubt they said a few things from time to time.

Heck, Jesus himself said "shithole", or the equivalent thereof, if you buy
Thomas Cahill's translation of a certain passage in Mark and/or Matthew.  
(The word in question is often translated "drain" or "sewer", and some
translations leave it out altogether; Cahill says the word was Macedonian
slang that would have sounded barbarous to Greek ears.  One wonders what
word Jesus actually used in his native Aramaic tongue. :) )

--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter@chattaway.com ---
Nothing tells memories from ordinary moments; only afterwards do they
   claim remembrance, on account of their scars. -- Chris Marker, La Jetee

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