Tuesday, August 13, 2013

U2's Bono Comes Out of the Darkness. . . to support Free Market Capitalism

C. S. Lewis Society of California
Bono, lead singer of the rock group U2, is a Christian and admirer of the work of C.S. Lewis. Based on his faith and with the help of the economist George Ayittey, in a talk at Georgetown University, Bono has recently reversed his support for Big Government aid programs to alleviate world poverty and embraced free-market capitalism instead, and in an interview with Focus on the Family, he indicated that Lewis may well inspire the next U2 album.
Bono: “Capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid” by David Theroux
blog.independent.org
Our Research Fellow George Ayittey met the Irish rock star Bono in July 2007 during a TED conference. Professor Ayittey was speaking and in knowing that Bono


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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous12:01 PM

    Bono's great! You've got to admire a man who can change his opinion with maturity.

    Am I the only one who considers U2 as the world's best worship band?

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  2. Anonymous10:55 PM

    You are not. Bono yields to the Holy Spirit (even though he refers to the Holy Spirit as a She)I can't fault him for that. kinda makes sense.

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