Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesus, Jonah and U2’s Pride in the Name of Love
As we approach Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I have been thinking about U2’s song Pride (In the Name of Love) (hereinafter, " Pride "). The song, of course, concerns MLKJr. (According to U2 Sermons , U2 formerly ran a video of MLKJr giving his “I have been to the mountaintop” speech during the playing of the song.) However, the lyrics of Pride are quite apparently not exclusively about MLKJr. Unfortunately, I have found little over the Internet where Bono, U2’s lead singer who penned the song, has commented in-depth about Pride . In fact, I have found only one instance where Bono, who is a professing Christian and whose Christian faith is one of the motivating factors behind his humanitarian acts , has commented about the song. In an article entitled Hit Song Breakdown: Pride - U2 , the unnamed author quotes from Bono’s statements about Pride in a Rolling Stone interview (with emphasis in the original). Although Bono is a glorious douche bag, I do love his music and will def...