SEX
From my studies of the Scriptures, I don’t see a hierarchy to sin. I don’t see sexual immorality registering higher up on the list than institutional greed, or greed of any kind, actually. 2015 ー U2: The Definitive Biography ー John Jobling
But I like both; I want both for my band. I want heaven and hell. We've always been given this choice, to choose between the flesh and the spirit. I don't know anyone who isn't both. October 1, 1992 ー "U2 Finds What It's Looking For" by David Frick (Rolling Stone)
Most of the people that you grew up with in black music… felt they could not express their sexuality before God. They had to turn away. So rock & roll became backsliders' music. They were running away from God. But I never believed that. I never saw it as being a choice, an either/or thing. November 3, 2005 ー Interview with Jann Wenner (Rolling Stone)
What’s often bothered me about the fundamentalists is that they seem preoccupied with the most obvious sins. If those sins, sexual immortality and drug addiction, come out of unhappiness, then I’m sure God wants to set people free of that unhappiness. But I couldn’t figure out why the same people were never questioning the deeper, slyer problems of the human spirit like self-righteousness, judgmentalism, institutional greed, corporate greed. 2005 ー Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas
Sex and music are still for me places where you glimpse God. 1996 ー U2 At The End Of The World ー Bill Flanagan
I’m interested in the spiritual side of the human being, but I’m also interested in the sexuality of people. April 7, 1987 ー The Joshua Tree Interview
Sex is now a subject owned by corporations. It's used to sell commodities. It is itself a commodity. And the message is that if you don't have it, you're nobody. 1996 ー U2 At The End Of The World ー Bill Flanagan
I've had my problems in my relationship. It's tough for everybody. I think fidelity is just against human nature. That's where we have to either engage or not engage our higher side. 1996 ー U2 At The End Of The World ー Bill Flanagan
But I like both; I want both for my band. I want heaven and hell. We've always been given this choice, to choose between the flesh and the spirit. I don't know anyone who isn't both. October 1, 1992 ー "U2 Finds What It's Looking For" by David Frick (Rolling Stone)
Most of the people that you grew up with in black music… felt they could not express their sexuality before God. They had to turn away. So rock & roll became backsliders' music. They were running away from God. But I never believed that. I never saw it as being a choice, an either/or thing. November 3, 2005 ー Interview with Jann Wenner (Rolling Stone)
What’s often bothered me about the fundamentalists is that they seem preoccupied with the most obvious sins. If those sins, sexual immortality and drug addiction, come out of unhappiness, then I’m sure God wants to set people free of that unhappiness. But I couldn’t figure out why the same people were never questioning the deeper, slyer problems of the human spirit like self-righteousness, judgmentalism, institutional greed, corporate greed. 2005 ー Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas
Sex and music are still for me places where you glimpse God. 1996 ー U2 At The End Of The World ー Bill Flanagan
I’m interested in the spiritual side of the human being, but I’m also interested in the sexuality of people. April 7, 1987 ー The Joshua Tree Interview
Sex is now a subject owned by corporations. It's used to sell commodities. It is itself a commodity. And the message is that if you don't have it, you're nobody. 1996 ー U2 At The End Of The World ー Bill Flanagan
I've had my problems in my relationship. It's tough for everybody. I think fidelity is just against human nature. That's where we have to either engage or not engage our higher side. 1996 ー U2 At The End Of The World ー Bill Flanagan
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Sex & Spirit
Sex & Spirit