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things spiritual, superspiritual characters that I can see nowwere possibly far too removed from reality. But we werewrapped up in that.”is idea of spiritually-minded Christians being “too farremoved from reality” is a common smokescreen used byrebels to excuse their worldliness. e Bible says:“If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which areabove, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set youraffection on things above, not on things on the earth. For yeare dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ,who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with himin glory” (Colossians 3:1-4).Bono mocks as “superspiritual” those who reject the thingsof this world to set their minds on heavenly things, but that isprecisely what God wants His people to do.U2 guitarist Dave Evans testified that he chose rock & rollover holiness:“It was reconciling two things that seemed for us at thatmoment to be mutually exclusive. We never did resolve thecontradictions. at’s the truth. ... Because we were getting alot of people in our ear saying, ‘is is impossible, you guys areChristians, you can’t be in a band. It’s a contradiction and youhave to go one way or the other.’ ey said a lot worse thingsthan that as well. So I just wanted to find out. I was sick ofpeople not really knowing and me not knowing whether thiswas right for me. So I took two weeks. Within a day or two Ijust knew that all this stuff [separating from the world] is ——-[vulgarity]. We were the band. Okay, it’s a contradiction forsome, but it’s a contradiction that I’m able to live with. I justdecided that I was going to live with it. I wasn’t going to try toexplain it because I can’t” (Bill Flanagan, U2 at the End of theWorld, 1996, pp. 47, 48).Note that Evans did not base his decision upon the Word ofGod. Contrary to Proverbs 3:5-6, he leans on his ownunderstanding, and in accordance with 2 Timothy 4:3-4 hefollows his own lusts.379