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All of you Christian journalists and
magazine editors, don't you dare try to claim some association between David
Bowie and Christianity. You were always quick to denigrate his lifestyle, song
content, drug use and personae. Yet I already bumped into a Christian Post
article that said, "During his 40-plus-year
career, Bowie, who experimented with Christianity and appears to have
held on to parts of the experience …" What do any of us know about his
pilgrimage other than by Bowie's own confessions. What is known is that he
searched and dabbled. He told Ellen Degeneres in 2004 that he had experimented
with several religions like Tibetan Buddhism, Neitzsche-ism, Judaism, Satanism,
Christianity and "pottery" he amusingly added. Finally, he seemed to
settle on singing as his faith.
Sure
Bowie's most explicitly religious song was the 1976 'Station to Station' which
focused upon the stations of the cross and was reportedly written during his
cocaine-fueled days. Bowie himself said it was an extremely dark album and that
it was a "miserable time to live through" in a 1997 Q Magazine
interview. In 2003 he said, "I honestly believe that my initial questions
haven't changed at all. There are far fewer of them these days, but they're
really important. Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what
I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me.
There's that little bit that holds on: Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a
couple of months …"
Christians, let it go! The man is cherished by fans because he excelled at glam rock, art rock, soul, dance pop, hard rock and electronica, and dramatically David Bowie has passed away after an eighteen month battle with cancer, and two days after release of his 25th album called Blackstar. Bowie was 69 years old. Don’t try to presume upon his eternity.
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