Seven years ago, he became a Jehovah’s Witness. He said that he had moved to L.A. so that he could understand the hearts and minds of the music moguls. “I wanted to be around people, connected to people, for work,” he said. “You know, it’s all about religion. That’s what unites people here. They all have the same religion, so I wanted to sit down with them, to understand the way they see things, how they read Scripture.”
Well, at least Prince is willing to see how other Christian read the scriptures and tries to understand the way that they see things. That's open-mindedness.
Prince had his change of faith, he said, after a two-year-long debate with a musician friend, Larry Graham. “I don’t see it really as a conversion,” he said. “More, you know, it’s a realization. It’s like Morpheus and Neo in ‘The Matrix.’ ” He attends meetings at a local Kingdom Hall, and, like his fellow-witnesses, he leaves his gated community from time to time to knock on doors and proselytize. “Sometimes people act surprised, but mostly they’re really cool about it,” he said.
Prince says that becoming a JW was more of a "realization" than a conversion. Well, it is a conversion because you are learning to start living by JW rules. Sure, people would be cool about having a celebrity come knocking on their doors.
Recently, Prince hosted an executive who works for Philip Anschutz, the Christian businessman whose company owns the Staples Center. “We started talking red and blue,” Prince said. “People with money—money like that—are not affected by the stock market, and they’re not freaking out over anything. They’re just watching. So here’s how it is: you’ve got the Republicans, and basically they want to live according to this.” He pointed to a Bible. “But there’s the problem of interpretation, and you’ve got some churches, some people, basically doing things and saying it comes from here, but it doesn’t. And then on the opposite end of the spectrum you’ve got blue, you’ve got the Democrats, and they’re, like, ‘You can do whatever you want.’ Gay marriage, whatever. But neither of them is right.”
Prince probably shouldn't be talking about politics as a Jehovah's Witness. He says you have Republicans who want to live according the rules of the Bible, then he is saying that is the "problem with interpretation" that you have some churches and some individual people doing things and saying that it is supported by the Bible, but that those things are not supported by the Bible and then he says that Democrats go on saying that people can do whatever they want. Well, the JW's insist on not celebrating birthdays because of two stories regarding two of Yahweh's followers being murdered on the birthdays of prominent pagan political leaders, the idea of honoring oneself instead of Yahweh (such an idea is in the Bible, I'm sure, but I don't it has to do with birthdays per se) and interpret Biblical passages about not eating blood as being sufficient for their denominational support on bans regarding the celebration of birthdays or undergoing blood transfusions. He says about gay marriage, "whatever", but that that neither political party is right. Well, how does Prince know that JW's interpretation of the Bible is "correct"? What if it turned out that the Mormons were right and that the JW's were wrong, let's say? Well, if same-sex couples want to legally marry, I don't see why that would bother Prince too much. He doesn't have to marry them and his Kingdom Hall won't have to marry them if they don't want to.
When asked about his perspective on social issues—gay marriage, abortion—Prince tapped his Bible and said, “God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out. He was, like, ‘Enough.’ ”
How do you know that God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever and that he just cleared it all out? Why is Yahweh so bothered by two men loving each other and having sex, how is it hurting him? Do you have proof that we may test to find out that the stories and claims of the Bible are true, Your Purpleness? How do you know your god said that he had had "enough", Prince. The Bible also supports the beating of disobedient slaves and Jesus refers to a Gentile woman as a "dog" when she asks him to heal her sick daughter because the woman was a Canaanite, what do you think of that? Shouldn't we execute disobedient children today, after all it is a Biblical commandment and you cannot pick and choose which of Yahweh's laws you want to follow and which ones to reject. I think that such ideas and stories are hilariously outrageous.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/11/24/soup-with-prince#ixzz0WgnOe2m
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