Bono your recent rise in religiousness is worrying. Have you now completely left individualism? Do you no longer believe in the individual as the basis of society? Have you become nothing more than another man of great religion who believes that if we just all hunkered down with our families and went to church every Sunday we would be a-okay?
I do think that with the lawlessness of this generation, Britain is reaping what it has sown for turning its back on the Lord.
My political positions remain the same.
I have never encountered a fundamentalist religion that is individualistic. Yes some "religions" like Unitarian Universalism are individualist but really that are neither very religious nor very Christian. Christianity is a communal and collectivist enterprise. It is a belief that makes those who ascrib to the teachings of a certian church or group believe fully or mostly in the beliefs of that group, especially within Protestant sects because of their great number of groups of mostly low numbers.
By your own beliefs not everyone can be part of the elect and thus be saved by God so what does Godlessness, in your view, have to do with lawlessness? Personally I believe that lawlessness and Godliness are in no way related except that religion can sometimes act as a way of social control the same way that stronger family ties or a motivation to succeed can.
Well it seems to me that your positions have become much more coloured by your religion in the recent months. Just my opinion though I do truely believe that you still somehow believe in the goodness of the individual and the other libertarian principals that you so highly ascribed before.
