Christian Public Witness Tends to Avoid the Blues

"We have to look at the world and we have to stare at it sometimes," he says. "I don't want to be in some blasphemy club, some holy huddle protected away in our niceness because Jesus just doesn't come off as nice." Coldplay was influenced by a group of charismatic Christians in Ireland in the late 70s who lived like first-century Christians but had few possessions.