Johny Cash Was Before Our Time

A friend of mine made a good post about Bono's Man of the Year Award.

It's funny how the only christians complain about Bono. They say he's a hypocrite or not really a christian at all because he is "clearly hedonistic". No one has ever been able to produce much in the way of concrete charges, but they've always heard that he was into bad stuff. You know... into drugs, or something of the sort.

It's absurd really. Talk about a prophet not welcome in his own home. Christians were shaking their finger at him when the rest of the world was stopping dead in their tracks to listen. It was his incredible music that made you stop, forced you to think about the hard questions. What's life really about? What's real beauty and where can I find it? Who is God and how do I relate to him, how do I know him?

A lot of christians said his lyrics didn't sync with their theology. This was mainly because they weren't listening and failed to understand them. It might be proposed that they also failed to really understand their own theology. Bono didn't look like Jesus because he drank, cussed and wore flashy clothes. He talked about real stuff too much and asked awkward questions. So most religious folks didn't bother getting around to listening to him. Maybe they don't really know what Jesus looks like anyway.

Billy Graham, a man most christians would consider to be a real christian role model, has had the honor of seeing thousands of souls come to Christ, but his ministry is one of reaping, not sowing. Bono is a sower. I'd be willing to bet that he's sown more seeds than Billy Graham has reaped souls. And into the most unfit, unfertile, and most hostile soil. Maybe he looks and acts too much like a normal man, together with all of the downfalls of a normal guy, to be a 'real christian'. But I bet Johny Cash would have understood him.

Despite making an entire post about him, I'm neither a Bono advocate nor nay-sayer. Bono can take care of Bono. I mainly get tired of listening to people who have a guilty conscience for doing nothing wine about Bono being in the press so much for humanitarian advocacy and action.