A friend forwarded the transcript of Bono's Dec. 1 interview with Larry King of CNN (I checked but the transcript is not yet online). Here are three things Bono said:
== "...religion is this sort of -- religion is the artifice, you know, the building, after God has left it sometimes, like Elvis has left the building. You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough."

== "I'm half Catholic and half -- I mean, I'm not doubting. I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God. It's religion I'm doubting.."

== "America is not just a country; it's an idea. You have to defend the idea as well as the country, and that idea is being attacked."