The group said the poster offended religious sensitivities by associating "the symbol of absolute hatred and the symbol of absolute love".

BBC: Catholics urge film poster ban

"I was just so fascinated by his passion and his absolute boyish love of this language that I thought, 'Yep, that feels like our Romeo, " Leveaux said.

WSJ: Bloom, Rashad in Broadway's 'Romeo and Juliet'

Goodman, who professes an "absolute, mad love" for The Hold Steady, says Stay Positive is sonically more experimental than their previous album, Boys and Girls in America.

NPR: Hold Steady Stays 'Positive'

Ethics, morality, love, and friendship on a world that has an Absolute Zero concept of Religion via Deities might not be possible.

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