Interview With A Vegan

If you don't know what Relevant Magazine is, run and pick one up. It's great stuff, especially if you're an Emergent follower.

Anyway, I thought the interview with Moby this month was insightful and interesting. Although I haven't followed him in awhile, I probably started listening to him before anyone else did. (1991 with his EP "Go")

Here are some quotes I found interesting.

"As a Christian, I feel very shut out from a lot of contemporary Christianity...my understanding in what it means to be a Christian is to, in our own subjective way, recognize Christ as being God, and recognize our shortcomings and our failings, and try and live according to the teachings of Christ as best we can. And what I find so strange as I look at the behavior of so many Christians, and I don't see any aspect of the teachings of Christ represented there."

"The thing that has always boggled my mind is when someone feels confident that they're saved. I want to say to them, "Didn't you read?" The Pharisees and the Sadducees at the front of the temple who were so self-satisfied, and then the tax collector in the back of the temple crying and beating his breast - who does Christ say goes home justified? The tax collector. So, it's just my perspective that you can't be a follower of Christ and be smug and self-satisfied. You can never be a follower of Christ and think you are doing a great job. We're supposed to be humble and work out our salvation with fear and trembling, not walk around and be arrogant, judgmental, smug people."

"My friends say, "Well, you know with Janet Jackson and the Super Bowl, I think people are more offended with the direction our culture has taken." And I'm like, "Well, why not be offended by the Super Bowl? Why not be offended by the crass commercialism - that buying a new car is going to provide you with happiness and salvation? Why not be offended by the notion that grown men who beat the s--- out of each other get paid $15 million a year, while schoolteachers in the inner city get paid $24,000 a year? That's offensive. If we're going to start talking about things that are offensive, a bare breast is at the bottom of the list."


I love it when they finally get around to talking about his new CD. He says:

"Theology is a lot more interesting. I mean, I love music, and I love making music and I love making records, and I've devoted my life to being a musician. But music, in and of itself, is not the most interesting thing to talk about. To talk about my new record could all be summed up in: I made this record, and I like it, and I think some of the songsare kind of frivolous and some of the songs are very personal, and I hope that other people like it. There really isn't that much more to say about it."

There's more, but you really should just buy the magazine.