I love this song and the whole album it is from. I wish i could say the same for the movie they used as the visual. There's no shit or blood in sight, and i don't believe for a second that Mary gave birth sitting like that, but at least she looks more or less like a teenage israelite. Still, the song is a beautiful reminder of the absurdity of this story, a stumbling block to the jews and foolishness to gentiles.
"The idea that there's a force of love and logic behind the universe is overwhelming to start with, if you believe it. Actually, maybe even far-fetched to start with, but the idea that that same love and logic would choose to describe itself as a baby born in shit and straw and poverty is genius, and brings me to my knees, literally. To me, as a poet, I am just in awe of that. It makes some sort of poetic sense. It's the thing that makes me a believer, though it didn't dawn on me for many years."
-Bono
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