Item Singer Conor Oberst Opens Up About Religion, from PASTE Magazine
Item Singer Conor Oberst Opens Up About Religion, from PASTE Magazine
Josh Jackson, editor-in-chief of Paste Magazine, recently caught up with Conor Oberst about his new self-titled album that he recorded down in Mexico for Paste’s first-ever International Issue.
The focus of the story was on his trip, but the conversation strayed onto two of Josh’s favorite topics, religion and politics. Paste got some answers about the numerous Christian references in his music – curious because Conor is an atheist. Should you choose to use any of his quotes listed below, we ask that you credit the August 2008 issue of Paste. Please let me know if you would like to receive a copy of the magazine. Best,Amy BensonThe Rosen Group
Singer, Song Writer Conor Oberst Opens Up About Religion in Exclusive Paste Magazine Interview
On The World’s Major Religions: “Not that I’m an expert on all these religions, but what I know about all the other major religions kind of all just fall a little flat in their—I guess, just in their kind of narrowmindedness. I feel like there’s something much more basic than what all these people are worried about. I find it really shocking that two groups that are, from an outsider’s perspective, almost identical—you know, Shiites and Sunnis, or Catholics and Protestants—can actually kill each other over these minor details.”
On Mortality: “Well, I guess it’s, to me, you know, pretty much commonsense. You can only really understand good if you have bad, so the idea of heaven or anything that happens for eternity, even if it’s nice, I can’t imagine it being nice forever. Even the idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it’s kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing. I think it’s a nice concept, and I wish it made sense to me, but I guess it doesn’t.”
On the Quest for Answers: “I guess I’m just conflicted. I mean, I want to find something like that. Badly. But in all the forms where it’s been offered to me, they seem fraudulent.”
On Growing Up: “My family is Catholic. I went to a Catholic school, that kind of thing, so that was my childhood for sure.”
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