I was doing some more research on attempting to understand the un-understanable "Viva La Vida" album, and came across this very sober article from a Christian perspective.
The author is of course recognizing the spiritual references that permeates most of the band's music and I don't believe he comes to any more of a conclusion than anyone else, but he does make some good points about Coldplay's philosophy. So give it a read, if your interested.
Being a person of faith, particularly Christian faith, in contemporary society is never an easy role to play, yet it is what we are. Pop culture and faith are strange bedfellows, but necessary ones when it comes to the dialogue of how they should and do interact and the Christian response to it. This is something has always sparked my own attention, especially seeing how history, society, and culture interact. Throw religion into the mix and it becomes something else entirely. Paying attention to the signs that culture plants in front of us, good or bad, whether negative or positive, is an obligation of the modern Christian. Not paying attention and not analyzing the world around us is, if I may be so frank, anti-intellecutalism, or a shying away from facing the more challenging aspects of what our faith means to us. It's simply spiritual laziness. Christ did not call us to take the easy route, after all.
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