Billie Eilish says she was ‘super religious’ for years as a child: ‘I love the idea that there’s a God. So why not?’
Billie Eilish was ‘super religious’ for years.
The 18-year-old singer wasn’t raised with strong beliefs but was ‘incredibly’ interested in the subject for a long time until her faith suddenly ‘completely went away’.
‘I don’t know if any of you know – I don’t think I’ve ever talked about it. When I was little, when I was a little kid, I was super religious for no damn reason,’ she said on her ‘me & dad radio’ podcast with her father Patrick O’Connell.
Higher power: Billie Eilish was ‘super religious’ for years. The 18-year-old singer wasn’t raised with strong beliefs but was ‘incredibly’ interested in the subject for a long time until her faith suddenly ‘completely went away’
Her faith: ‘I don’t know if any of you know – I don’t think I’ve ever talked about it. When I was little, when I was a little kid, I was super religious for no damn reason,’ she said on her ‘me & dad radio’ podcast with her father Patrick O’Connell. Seen in January 2020
‘My family never was religious. I didn’t know anyone that was religious. And for some reason, as a little girl, I just was incredibly religious. And then at one point, I don’t know what happened. It just completely went away.’
The shift suddenly made the ‘bad guy’ singer ‘almost anti-religious for no reason also’, but she learned from her adjustment in her beliefs and thinks her own experiences have made her a much more open-minded person when it comes to faith and religious views.
She continued: ‘I don’t know why that happened. I don’t know what made me that way. And then after that period of my life, I’ve loved the idea of other beliefs.
Learning on her own: She added, ‘My family never was religious. I didn’t know anyone that was religious. And for some reason, as a little girl, I just was incredibly religious. And then at one point, I don’t know what happened. It just completely went away.’ Seen in May 2019
‘And I think people with closed minds, people like me from a couple years ago – I think that’s very pathetic to have a closed mind. It’s very lame. I love hearing people’s beliefs.
‘And I love talking about what people believe in and hearing why they believe in it and what makes them believe in it.
‘And especially if I don’t agree, because I like to listen and I like to understand. And I think it’s really important to be supportive of all beliefs in the world and all opinions and not shoot people down for what they believe in.’
Open minded: The shift suddenly made the ‘bad guy’ singer ‘almost anti-religious for no reason also’, but she learned from her adjustment in her beliefs and thinks her own experiences have made her a much more open-minded person when it comes to faith and religious views
Billie is now in a ‘very neutral’ position when it comes to religion.
She said: ‘I don’t, not believe and I don’t do believe. I’m in a very neutral position. I’m open to every belief pretty much.
‘[I love] the idea that there’s a God. So why not? How would I know? I’m not going to say I know I don’t, nobody knows.’
The ‘everything i wanted’ singer’s father thought it was ‘pretty marvelous’ that she developed her own beliefs without influence from her family.
Patrick said: ‘From my point of view, as a parent, we did not go to church and we didn’t really talk about religion at all. And wasn’t in our household very much. And you just … believed.
‘You had all these kind of organised thoughts about the whole thing. And I thought it was pretty marvelous. I didn’t object to it. I didn’t say you can’t believe that.’