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Shihad’s Jon Toogood reveals how love and the Christchurch attack made him rethink his staunch atheism – ABC News
Jon Toogood built a career as frontman for the New Zealand rock band Shihad, infusing stadium-sized songs with his avowed atheism. But when he fell in love with…
As the frontman for Shihad, Jon Toogood won plenty of fans by wearing his anti-authoritarianism on his sleeve.
“[At the time] I was a staunch atheist … I was under the impression that all people who believed in religion were suckers,” he said.
In time, two terrorist attacks separated by decades would challenge him to wrestle with everything he held true, from family to faith.
Shihad took their name from a misheard line in the film adaptation of Dune.(Supplied: Murray Cammick/AudioCulture.co.nz)
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