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It's hard to say where they stand with Jesus these days. He's still there in (some of) the lyrics, but sometimes you get to thinking that the U2 trajectory looks more and more like a belated discovery of the delights they eschewed in youth, a front-loading of the piety of age followed by an eruption into delayed adolescence.
In the beginning they wore their hearts on their album sleeves, unabashedly proclaiming their faith in songs like "Gloria," "Tomorrow," and "40." After their third album, War, the Christian element became more subtle, and remained so. With
Achtung Baby , they went ironic, adapting the Berlin industrial harmonic clangor developed by Bowie and Eno for Low , Heroes , and Iggy Pop's masterpieces The Idiot and Lust for Life...."
