dave matthews band

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"Hoping to God on high,Is like clinging to straws,While drowning"-from the song What You Are

"There is no God above,No hell below,It's here with us,It's up to us,To keep afloat"-from the song Mother Father

Dave Matthews said in an interview (US Magazine, June 1998): "I'm glad some people have that faith. I don't have that faith. If there is a God, a caring God, then we have to figure he's done an extraordinary job of making a very cruel world.

Dave matthews: "'It would be safe to say that I'm agnostic,' Matthews says. 'However, I do feel as though we owe a faith to the world and to ourselves. We owe a grace and gratitude to things that have brought us here. But I think it's very ignorant to say, `Well, for everything, God has a plan.' That's like an excuse....'"March 4, 2001 edition of the Boston Globe

So, as Christians, I think we should think carefully about aligning ourselves with dave matthews. though dave is undoubtedly musically gifted, he fails to see where his talent comes from. just a thought...

dave isn't a christian. of course he makes comments about how he doesn't believe in God. why wouldn't he? it's better that he's decided for himself what he believes than just to pretend he's a christian, like so many americans today.

He grew up in a religious home, but his father died when he was about 10, and later his sister was murdered by her husband who then shot himself, and after that he turned his back on religion and that's what his comment about god creating a "cruel world" is all about.

i partly agree with him on the comment, "I think it's very ignorant to say, `Well, for everything, God has a plan.' That's like an excuse"

alot of people throw that line around and they don't even think about it. Dave's sister is brutaly murdered and someone says "Hey, it's alright. God has a plan" Why wouldn't dave be ****ed at God? That's all he knows of God. To him, God is just someone who has a plan to kill his family. He's just not a christian.


an another thing- if you want to avoid those songs that have the lines (quoted in the post above) about God, just don't buy the cd Everyday. it's a waste of money anyway. the music isn't that great.