Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #280 - I am finding your religious turn and proselytising difficult. How do you reconcile your faith with the church’s devastating...

he recognises here that the religious temperament at its best is seeking not its own survival or glorification, but an answer to an intolerable problem – the unrequited suffering of good and innocent people.

It put the Church on an unnecessary collision course with science and suggested to people that to be a Christian they had to screw themselves up to believe things they knew were not true and deny things they knew were true.

I am not religious, so it is not my place to dictate to Christians what they should and should not believe. Still, if someone has a faith worth following, I feel that their beliefs should make me feel uncomfortable for not doing so. If they share 90 percent of my lifestyle and values, then there is nothing especially inspiring about them. Instead o

As a filmmaker he spends most of his time trying to hang on to the truth of his work, its essence, and not have it contaminated by the industry.