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| "God knows where my heart is," Yeezy says. |
An
actor depicting Jesus Christ at the Yeezus tour opening in Seattle last weekend
represented one of the "awesome things" about Christianity and wasn't
meant to be disrespectful, Kanye West says.
West,
36, cleared up the misconception in an interview with personalities from San
Francisco's Wild 94.9 radio station recently, saying he even consulted with a
"pastor friend" before staging the moment. "My girl even asked
afterwards, 'Is that weird if Jesus comes on stage like that?'" he
said, and then answered, "No, we do plays all the time where
people play Jesus."
The
right to play Jesus separates Christianity from other religions, West added.
"You know, what's awesome about Christianity is that we're allowed to
portray God. We're allowed to, you know, draw an image of him, we're allowed to
make movies about him. Other religions, you're not really allowed to do that.
So that's what's really awesome about Christianity. That's one of the awesome
things."
The
"Jesus Walks" rapper correlated the live-action ode to Christ with
"a moving opera," then scrapped all comparisons stating, "God
knows where my heart is at."
Religion
and music mixing tends to have controversial results, which Yeezy acknowledged,
but his intention wasn't to get a negative rise out of people, he insisted. "One
of the things that I wanted to really get across with that message is that you
can have a relationship with Jesus," he continued.
"That you can talk to Jesus."
culled from BET.com
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