{"id":579942,"date":"2021-07-02T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=579942"},"modified":"2021-07-02T13:51:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T17:51:03","slug":"winston-marshall-says-christian-faith-gave-him-courage-to-leave-mumford-sons-after-woke-mob-attacked-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/winston-marshall-says-christian-faith-gave-him-courage-to-leave-mumford-sons-after-woke-mob-attacked-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Winston Marshall Says Christian Faith Gave Him Courage to Leave Mumford &#038; Sons After Woke Mob Attacked Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwinston-marshall-says-christian-faith-gave-him-courage-to-leave-mumford-sons-after-woke-mob-attacked-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=579942&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1177933338.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/bariweiss.substack.com\/p\/my-conversation-with-winston-marshall\">interview<\/a> with former New York Times opinion columnist, Bari Weiss, guitarist Winston Marshall revealed that his Christian faith played an integral role in his recent decision to leave his phenomenally successful band, Mumford &amp; Sons.<\/p>\n<p>As the Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mumford-sons-guitarist-announces-hes-leaving-band-to-speak-his-mind-on-political-issues\">reported<\/a>, a woke mob tried to cancel Marshall in March after he praised \u201cUnmasked,\u201d a book that documents Antifa\u2019s political extremism. At the time, Marshall apologized and took time off to \u201cexamine [his] blind spots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But last week, Marshall retracted that statement and announced he was leaving the group he helped found in 2007, saying, \u201cI could remain and continue to self-censor, but it will erode my sense of integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his conversation with Weiss, released Thursday, Marshall explained how prayer reinforced his resolve to leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was talking a lot to my mom and dad with whom I\u2019m very close and I think who love me and understand me better than anyone and could understand the complexity of the situation,\u201d Marshall told Weiss. \u201cI was praying a hell of a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then said he was spending significant time in the Catholic Church near his home in London, and how that led to him to feel he must retract the apology he offered months ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy faith has played a big part in this period of my life and actually the week before making the final decision, I was pretty much planted in my local Catholic Church around the corner from the house,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a bloody big moment for me. That\u2019s probably why after a while, the apology was bothering me like it did, particularly that I\u2019d felt like I\u2019d been participating in that lie that we already talked about. I couldn\u2019t square those things in my conscience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marshall then described how the faith modeled by Soviet dissident and Christian Alexandr Solzhenitsyn particularly impacted him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Solzhenitsyn] talks about the line between good and evil cutting through the center of every human heart. And that is lost in discourse today,\u201d Marshall observed. \u201cI think a lot of people say, \u2018oh, he\u2019s a good guy\u2019 or \u2018f*** that guy, he\u2019s a bad guy.\u2019 Instead of accepting what I think is a Christian value, the idea that everyone is fallen, it\u2019s back to the binary black and white, good guys, bad guys, goodies, baddies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Solzhenitsyn wasn\u2019t the only religious thinker influencing Marshall, however. The 33-year-old Grammy winner also jokingly referenced Kanye West.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, if I can quote the great American theologian of all time, Kanye West, he said, \u2018Fear God and you will fear nothing else,\u2019\u201d Marshall laughed. \u201cAnd I love that because for me, I do fear God. And I think it\u2019s true. That if you fear God sincerely, then you won\u2019t fear worldly issues, worldly problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He concluded, \u201cWe\u2019re all fallen and recognizing that we make mistakes, bring back a bit of grace and good faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with former New York Times opinion columnist, Bari Weiss, guitarist Winston Marshall revealed that his Christian faith played an integral role in his recent decision to leave &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313921,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1177933338.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Winston Marshall Says Christian Faith Gave Him Courage to Leave Mumford &#038; Sons After Woke Mob Attacked Him","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1177933338.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Winston Marshall Says Christian Faith Gave Him Courage to Leave Mumford &#038; Sons After Woke Mob Attacked Him","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}