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10.19.2011
Taking bets on how widely this gets picked up...
This link will probably only be good today, 19th October (and I can't get the archive/search function to turn up anything in Firefox, personally), but the front page of today's Metro Herald paper in Dublin covers the fact that Bono was cited as a modern-day prophet in a children's Roman Catholic religious education text and that some Dubliners find this comical. Careful readers will remember that there are 2 previous such children's books treating Bono as an example of Christian faith in action out there: A Powerful Voice and Breaking Through By Grace. But those weren't from, em, Ireland. (HT Scott.)
In my tradition, anyone can be prophetic. A prophet is not one who can tell the future, but one who speaks against any power, whether political or religious, when it is unpopular, counter-cultural and even dangerous, in favor of justice and righteousness. By that definition, Bono is a prophet. And so are you and I.
ReplyDeleteAnd if I were a betting man, I'd say this will definitely get picked up by all the "I hate Bono" bloggers!
Yes, the story does sort of seem to assume that only designated heroes "count" as examples of the prophetic, doesn't it? (I guess you'd expect that from a secular paper, but even the quote from the publisher has that tone, sadly.)
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