On Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 3:44:20 PM UTC-4, Phillip Helbig (undress to   
   reply) wrote:   
   > In article <8f45c431-3d73-4b88-b049-e9436d3b5c6b@googlegroups.com>,   
   > joemahoney1950@gmail.com writes:    
   >    
   > > You are quite mistaken, my friend.  Rush are *very* conservative.  Go to    
   > > theguardian.com and do a search for "Rush, socialism."     
   >    
   > This brings up the infamous Miles interview.  That was forty years ago.   
   > Got something more recent?  Neil has since distanced himself many times   
   > from Ayn Rand, describing his fascination with her back then with the   
   > words "I was a child!" and "I am nobody's disciple" and "the influence   
   > of Ayn Rand on my work has been highly overestimated".  Yes, he was   
   > different back then, but he has changed.  He has grown up.  :-)  And he   
   > was NEVER conservative.  Forty years ago, he was an extreme libertarian.   
   > This interview is the origin of the "Rush are fascists" myth, which   
   > Neil put to rest with the great one-liner "Right, we're the only Nazi   
   > band with a Jewish bassist".  :-)    
   >    
   > > rediscover his Christian Faith.     
   >    
   > Was he ever a Christian?   
      
   Not only is Neil a Christian, but he is a vocal proponent of Intelligent   
   Design science.  "Oh," he wrote, "Sweet Miracle of Life."  Like any educated   
   man, Neil recognizes that life can not have come about through random, natural   
   events.  He knows that    
   life can only have come about through a miracle, that of Divine Intervention.     
      
   This recognition of God's handiwork is the inspiration for most of Neil's   
   work, both his lyrics and his percussion.  Neil's fascination with   
   supernatural events totally permeates his oeuvre as all dedicated Rush fans   
   recognition.  "Nature," Neil wrote, "   
   seems to spin a supernatural way."  We see the beauty in these seemingly   
   natural objects: maybe a colorful bird, or a glowing sunset, or a spectacular   
   landscape; and it leads us to delve further into the *cause* behind such   
   phenomena, and to recognize    
   the handiwork of God.  "We feel these powers," Neil writes, "and we wonder   
   what they are."  Such wonderment leads us inextricably to God.  But even then   
   we continue to wonder, for no mortal can fully grasp God in his omnipotence.    
   This striving to know    
   God is the great theme of Neil's and Rush's life.   
      
   At the same time, Neil has exulted in the personal "salvation" stemming from   
   his relationship with Christ.    
      
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