Kenneth Tanner's review of "Atomic Bomb" is much too detailed for me to do it justice here but writing in a conservative publication allows Mr. Tanner (who is a Minister) to reflect on the Christianity of the CD much more than Rolling Stone would ever dare (they wouldn't want to part of "Jesusland" now would they).
..."Yahweh" is a postmodern Christmas hymn. It looks in hope to the birth of Christ ("always pain before a child is born") as it presses home a question the Father's long-awaited gift evokes in honest souls: "Why the dark before the dawn?" "Miracle Drug," "Crumbs from Your Table," "Vertigo," "Love and Peace or Else," "All Because of You," and "Yahweh" not only allude to but even depend on the Gospel to
disclose their meaning.
...The American theologian Robert Jenson says that, unlike political ideologies, the Spirit makes us free not from each other but for each other. Of all the rock clichés the U2 brothers overturn, it is perhaps their love for each other — held together despite strong wills and tested by time — that enables not only their longevity but an enduring ability to produce albums of rock music that belong among the genre's best.
