Re: Guns n' stuff
James J Rovira (jrovira@juno.com)
Thu, 13 May 1999 20:17:10 -0400 (EDT)
I think he genuinely converted to Christianity some time prior to the
release of Slow Train Coming, by any accounts, but I don't think he
considers himself a Christian nowadays. I think he's moving more toward
Judaism now and has been for a few years, but I haven't heard anything
lately.
Jim
On Thu, 13 May 1999 21:32:41 +0000 cinnimon@vvm.com writes:
>about Dylan being a 'Godly man':
>I did some research this summer on Dylan for a 60's class I took at
>Duke and came to
>find out that while he did consider himself Buddhist during his
>earlier days, he later
>came to a greater understanding with Christianity (1979) and all that
>it entails. He
>even released a few albums with strong Christian overtones within:
>_Slow Train
>Coming_, _Saved_ (oddly enough his weakest selling album) and _Shot of
>Love_.
>One quite interesting article I read was based entirely on his
>reaffirmation entitled
>"Bob Dylan: Born-Again Christian or Social Critic?" It basically
>compared and
>contrasted what they referred to as "The Old Dylan" and "The New
>Dylan."
>I'm not meaning to jump over you or anything about what you said -
>it's just that many
>people don't believe he is a Christian.
>-Sarah
>
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