a statement against religion

On Medúlla, you wrote "neither Bush nor Bin Laden" .Do you feel this is even more urgent today ?

We’ve been terrorised for more than four thousand years with these organised religions ! Earth has existed for more than four billion years ; I think she’s able to defent herself against these tiny four thousand years...This idea—that you can only live with orders from the left hemisphere of the brain, by totally neglecting the animal part, the pagan, the physical and the natural one—is absurd. How could we have neglected nature and gotten caught up by the Bible or the Koran ? How could we have obediently accepted this outrageous twelve-month calendar with months we don’t know if they have 28, 29, 30 or 31 days ? The body, it knows there are thirteen months : women bleed thirteen times during the year, there are thirteen full moons. But Christianity doesn’t tolerate the 13th... By removing this number, it [Christianity] thought itself stronger than nature. Sky-scrapers in New York don’t have the thirteenth floor : that says so much about the influence of religion on that country. Even in Iceland, men ended up thinking themselves stronger than nature and are starting to build large dams, in this country which used to be considered as the purest in Europe...

Volta is a comic horror film : I dream in it that one day nature is going to revolt... I see it walking heavily and noisily down the streets of New York, entering each building and handwriting a "13" in the elevator shafts... It’s been asleep for four thousand years and was letting the others do what they want. But now, it’s had enough : we need to finally admit that we are only a tribe, who has to live with the nature, [has to] forget its presumptions of civilization and cleanliness. We are fundamentally pagans and we’ll need to take that into account.

Les Inrockuptibles, March 2007