So much magnificent art, throughout history, has been inspired (and often funded) by religion and religious institutions. Even agnostics can marvel at the beauty of the Sistene Chapel, or Michaelangelo's David. Handel's Messiah is known to please the ears of all sorts of people, believers and non.
Let's take the music for what it is and be glad that Dylan found a muse to sustain him through a third, and fourth, and fifth decade of writing! How greater a waste would it have been if he retired to seclusion in 1975, never to write or sculpt or paint again?
So much magnificent art, throughout history, has been inspired (and often funded) by religion and religious institutions. Even agnostics can marvel at the beauty of the Sistene Chapel, or Michaelangelo's David. Handel's Messiah is known to please the ears of all sorts of people, believers and non.
Let's take the music for what it is and be glad that Dylan found a muse to sustain him through a third, and fourth, and fifth decade of writing! How greater a waste would it have been if he retired to seclusion in 1975, never to write or sculpt or paint again?