"The trouble with [commonly practiced organized] religion is not God.
It is that it offers truth without a way of questioning it. Worse, it punishes you for questioning.." -Adam Bly
The new "questions" part of the U2 360 liturgy (see story and video here: "New U2 concert screen content".... ); in between "Sarajevo" and "City of Blinding Lights, " questions appear on the screen and sound system to the audience/congregation's "holy hush" as the questions represent/re-present them to God and themselves: "Why is it so hard to believe?" "Will I ever be a good father?" "How do I know what's true?" etc) introduced some now voices last night in Chile..
ironically, it may help to have computerized voices ask our most human questions. uh, .including that ancient but often unarticulated (at least "in church") prayer, "WTF?" (Yes, this is a U2 liturgy, so the female computer voice actually says the words..)
See 6:47ff in the first video, and the first section of the second video for the revised liturgy in Chile:
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Saturday, March 26, 2011
computer voices ask human questions in new liturgy: U2 in Chile
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