Editing Moby (section)

===Spirituality and faith===
Moby has adopted different faiths throughout his life. He identified himself as an atheist when he was growing up, followed by agnostic, then "a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian", during which time he taught Bible studies.<ref name=Q11/> Around 1985, he read the teachings of Christ, including the [[New Testament]] and [[Gospel|the Gospels]] and "was instantly struck by the idea that Christ was somehow divine. When I say I love Christ and love the teachings of Christ, I mean that in the most simple and naïve and subjective way. I'm not saying I'm right, and I certainly wouldn't criticize anyone else's beliefs."<ref name="bbcfaith">{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/04_april/29/moby.shtml |title=BBC&nbsp;– Press Office&nbsp;– Moby World Service interview |date=April 29, 2003 |access-date=February 13, 2012 |publisher=[[BBC World Service]] |archive-date=October 12, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091012124706/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/4_april/29/moby.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.christianitytoday.com/iyf/advice/mediaqa/19.36.html |title=Is Moby a Christian? |work=[[Christianity Today]] |date=January–February 2003 |access-date=September 29, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100109130854/http://www.christianitytoday.com/iyf/advice/mediaqa/19.36.html |archive-date=January 9, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media|url=http://archive.sojo.net/special/multimedia/audio/061004_moby/player.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130222073256/http://archive.sojo.net/special/multimedia/audio/061004_moby/player.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 22, 2013 |title=Moby: Everything is Complicated |work=[[Sojourners Magazine]] |medium=Audio interview |date=September 20, 2006 |access-date=September 29, 2011 }}</ref>

In the liner notes of ''Animal Rights'' (1996), Moby wrote: "I wouldn't necessarily consider myself a Christian in the conventional sense of the word, where I go to church or believe in cultural Christianity, but I really do love Christ and recognize him in whatever capacity as I can understand it as God. One of my problems with the church and conventional Christianity is it seems like their focus doesn't have much to do with the teachings of Christ, but rather with their own social agenda". In 2014, Moby pointed out that if he needed to label himself, it would be as a "[[Taoism|Taoist]]–Christian–agnostic quantum mechanic."<ref name="mojo2014">{{cite web |url=https://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/08/exclusive-premiere-moby-video-last-day-innocents-interview |title=Exclusive Premiere of Moby's New Video, 'The Last Day' |last=Lee |first=Jaeah |work=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]] |date=September 2, 2014 |access-date=July 9, 2018 |archive-date=June 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604045031/http://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/08/exclusive-premiere-moby-video-last-day-innocents-interview |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2019, Moby said that he is not a Christian, "but my life is geared towards God [...] I have no idea who or what God might be."<ref name=KQED19/>