“It sounds like Devendra [Banhart] kind of grew up in this strange kind of cultish environment and I don’t mean that word in a demeaning way. I think we probably come from similar backgrounds. There’s a little bit of that in my history. The religious environment I grew up in was so varied, so inconsistent, and had so many faces. What I perceived in major organized religion was order and a kind of consistency I didn’t see in my family life. People see the term Christian attached to me and they think, ‘OK, he must be fundamentalist Christian, and then he must be a Republican. Oh, then he must have voted for George Bush, so he must be a bigot.’ It’s just like one thing leads to another. I’m sure if I were to sit down with Jerry Falwell or anyone like that it would be very uncomfortable. Yet in theological terms, we worship the same God, and that’s a very awkward kind of thing to reconcile with. The religious environment is a big problem, but I don’t really know how to start talking about it. […] Ohhh, the clarity of all things will be revealed in the afterlife, and there will be a refinement of character for all of us, I hope. It’s all politics anyway—religion here is politics.”

— Sufjan Stevens (via fuckyeahsufjanstevens)

(Source: Los Angeles Times, via andbreathe)

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