St. Paul’s Cathedral will hold its fourth U2charist on May the 4th.
A U2charist is “a communion service, or Eucharist, accompanied by U2 songs” designed to encourage people “to rally around the Millennium Development Goals”.
It appears to make no pretence to having much to do with Christ’s body and blood and, since I think the Millennium Development Goals are a thoroughly odious substitute, I will probably not attend.
Add to this the fact that Bono sees no hypocrisy in tirelessly championing the taxpayer funded Millennium Development Goals while having just made $1 billion from his Facebook shares on which he will, no doubt, pay no tax and I can’t see why anyone would want to attend.
Nevertheless, a prior effort managed to fill the cathedral; it adheres to the received Anglican dogma that it doesn’t matter what you do with people who attend church, as long as you get them there.
Bono does allow churches to use his songs without paying a copyright fee, though: very sacrificial.
Here you will see one of my biggest fans, Rev. Keith Nethery interviewing the organiser:
