I heard that Moby is a Christian, but he called himself a "different kind of Christian." What does that mean?

Question

Does anybody have any insight on his beliefs or practices?

Answer 1

MOBY: My honest answer is, I don't know. The word Christian means so many different things to different people that it has from a linguistic perspective become a meaningless word. If we have one word that means wildly disparate things to different people, the word itself ceases to have meaning. If you think a hammer is a dog, and I think a hammer is a car, and someone else thinks a hammer is a building, and we all use the word hammer, it serves no practical purpose for any of us.

DOOR: So that's the word Christian. Who is Jesus?

MOBY: Again, I have no idea. First and foremost He was a human being. Was He tapped into divinity? Was He inherently divine? Is He a divine being that's partially human? A human being, partially divine? It's not for me to hazard a guess. From my perspective, there does seem to be a lot of divinity in the teachings of Christ. But who am I to say?

If there are people in the United States who want to block the teaching of evolution in schools, and be "pro-family," anti-abortion, and anti-gay marriage, they're free to do that. We live in a country where people are allowed to believe whatever they believe and promote whatever they want to promote. I respect their right to believe what they want; it's just strange when they try to justify it in the name of Christ. Specifically, those four issues, Christ never mentioned any of them. To be a Christian who's trying to stop the teaching of evolution in schools or who's virulently opposed to homosexuality is, in my mind, akin to being a Buddhist who says that Buddha told him to go open a coal plant.

DOOR: These things don't have anything to do with each other?

MOBY: Do whatever you want, but there has to be some consistency to people's actions and the teachings they supposedly try to live by. Or not. But if not, why do they attach the word Christ to these things that Christ never talked about? It boggles my mind. It would be like being a vegan and eating hamburgers. If you want to eat hamburgers, fine, but why call yourself a vegan? Being a pro-war Christian is like being a vegan who eats hamburgers.

Answer 2

I don't know who Moby is, but I call myself a different kind of Christian sometimes because I'm Mormon. We don't subscribe to the same exact tenets of either Catholisism or Protestantism, yet we still believe that Jesus Christ is our one and only Savior. There are other similarities too, but some pretty big differences too. Perhaps this Moby person means that he doesn't consider himself a Catholic or a Protestant, but does consider himself a Christian.

Answer 3

Well, then they drive their car over my front yard and mess up some of my flowers and stuff, I call it persecution. But I don't immediately come on here complaining of Christians persecuting me. Why because what's the use. (As for your question, the funny thing about church people is that they have no clue they are funny.) .

Answer 4

I think what he means by that is he's politically/socially liberal.

This is from his blog:

http://www.moby.com/journal/2004-11-04/christian_values.html

And from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby#Faith

Answer 5

I got the sense that he genuinely came to Christ (I've been following him since the 90s, he was on a Christian dance comp. CD back then), but never really separated from the things of the world, and that came back to bite him (although he doesn't realize this). From what I can tell he is trying to re-define Christianity in his own terms. I can appreciate him not taking what he hears from pulpits etc. as marching orders, I think more of us should do that, but he's gone beyond the berean approach of checking the scriptures to see how things line up to getting an agenda and trying to force scriptures to line up with his agenda (or in the absence of guidance just doing whatever he wants). He needs your prayers, he was on my list for years, thanks for reminding me to get him back on it.

Answer 6

I thought Moby was a white whale. Am I missing something here?

Answer 7

moby tunes r koool! have u watched em on utube

Answer 8

Oh boy.....I hope for our (christians) sake that it's not something stupid.

With Christ, there are no gray areas.....you're either in or you're out.

Answer 9

It means he wants to cover his bases, sales-wise.

Answer 10

You will have to elaborate.