 By 1984 , Dylan was <unk> himself from the " born again " label . He told Kurt <unk> of Rolling Stone magazine : " I 've never said I 'm born again . That 's just a media term . I don 't think I 've been an agnostic . I 've always thought there 's a superior power , that this is not the real world and that there 's a world to come . " In response to <unk> 's asking whether he belonged to any church or synagogue , Dylan <unk> replied , " Not really . Uh , the Church of the Poison Mind . " In 1997 he told David Gates of Newsweek : 
