Floor Jansen reveals her opinion about religion and beliefs

Dutch singer Floor Jansen of Nightwish, who lives in Sweden with her husband, drummer Hannes Van Dahl of Sabaton, said in a recent interview with Brocarde that she was raised in a religious environment despite never having been a devout follower. This is what she stated, as transcribed by blabbermouth.net.

It was there, but I guess from the get-go I really started to wonder what… There was so much contr[adiction]. On one hand, they say that God is about love, and you come into church, and the first thing you see is a dead man nailed to a cross that has suffered tremendously. And if that is not horrible enough, it’s done because of your sins. So you’re even supposed to feel guilty for it. I’m sorry — where is this love? Then I need to eat his body, drink his blood. I think it’s fucking disgusting — pardon my French. I think I took the whole thing way too literal because the whole story behind it was so far away from the image that that man and the sins and the horror of hell and the threat, the constant threat that you have to believe, that the more I learned about religion, the more I came to feel, like, okay, so we’re basing certain wisdom on a book written by someone thousands of years ago, [with] interpretation after interpretation, for some people taking completely literal, leading to all kinds of trouble. Not to mention organized religion, which is just causing the worst genocides and most horrible situations in the history of mankind. There is no love. And if that is the higher power, then I think it’s maybe a manmade desire to control. And it has nothing to do with the previous conversation where there might be a power that we do not really understand yet. But I do think in general, whether you’re highly sensitive or not, whether you live now or throughout all history, we have the tendency to want to believe there’s something more than we are. And where that comes from, I haven’t really gotten an answer to that, but I do believe there is something out there that we just haven’t understood yet.