international news _ 4th December, 2006
God Only Knows P Diddy & Moby
Text by Jonty Skrufff (Skrufff.com)
P Diddy was so religious he attended both Catholic and Baptist churches he
revealed this week, adding that he attributes his astonishing commercial
success directly to his religious background.
“I was an altar boy in a Catholic church and then had afternoons at a
Baptist church; I was in church every Sunday, all day,” Puffy confessed.
“It’s because of Him (God) that all I do is possible. He’s my secret
weapon,” he added.
The multi-millionaire rapper’s revelations appeared just days before
multi-millionaire techno type Moby flagged up his own God-fearing
credentials again, in a Biblically inspired broadside against ‘right-wing
American Christianity’.
“My presumptuous belief is that if Christ walked into a right-wing
mega-church and started preaching he would either be beaten up or shot,”
said Moby on his always interesting blog, going on to accuse the religious
right of comprehensively misinterpreting the Bible.
“If you read the 4 gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Crazy John) you'll find
a lot of remarkable teachings,” he added, “on forgiveness (to paraphrase:
forgive everyone, regardless of how they've wronged you), teachings on
judgementalism (simple: judge not unless you want to be judged, and no one
can really hold up under judgement) and so on,” he said.
Former Jacques Lu Cont protégé Juliet also revealed she’s been reading the
Bible a lot recently, telling Skrufff this week she’s taken a break from the
club scene to write new songs ‘slowly, quietly, with a guitar’
“My message was off, and I had to quit it, before it killed me,” said
Juliet, “My spirit is being reborn; heart, mind, soul and truth!”
Chatting about the recent anti-gay alliance of fundamental Christians, Jews
and Muslims against Jerusalem Pride, Juliet referred to Jesus’ well known
‘let he who is without sin cast the first stone’ story (John 8:1-11) and
also concluded with a poignant favourite Bible passage of her own; John 3:16
and 3:17.
"This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only
Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him,
anyone can have a whole and lasting life." Juliet told Skrufff (quoting from
the Message translation.”
"God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an
accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put
the world right again,” she added.
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