Aleksandra Radovic Explains Why She Goes to Church
On the podcast Zivot u veri, the singer spoke about prejudice against believers and said church is where her emergency room is. The clip is spreading online.
Aleksandra Radovic said on the podcast “Zivot u veri” (“Life in Faith”) that she does not go to church because she considers herself free of sin. A clip of her appearance has been spreading on social media since last night, and portals have been carrying it since then.
In the conversation, the singer talked about the prejudice faced by people who go to church. She described two images that, as she puts it, people attach to believers: some see them as backward, others think they pose as sinless and set themselves apart from everyone else.
What did Aleksandra Radovic say about prejudice?
Her statement has two parts: the first is about how others see believers, the second about what church means to her personally. She first named both extremes one after the other, then addressed her critics directly:
You go to church, you’re backward, I don’t know what people imagine about someone who goes to church, or the other extreme: “Oh, she goes to church, all saintly, she’s the only one who’s got it right, the rest of us are all wrong.” Well, my dear man, we go because we’re a mess. I’m five hundred times more sinful than you are, they think I’m some kind of paragon of purity, no way, it’s the complete opposite.
That is how the singer Aleksandra Radovic put it on “Zivot u veri”. In other words, she placed herself among those whom others wrongly take for paragons of purity, and she put a number on her own sinfulness: five hundred times greater than her interviewer’s.
Why does she go to church?
She answered that question right after:
I go to church because that’s where my help is, that’s my hospital, my doctor, that’s my emergency room, man. When you’re in trouble, run there!
Radovic said this in the same conversation. The comparison to a hospital and an emergency room became the headline in most write-ups of her appearance, and the comments under the clip on social media point the same way: many single out her openness and the way she talks about her own weaknesses.
The singer rarely talks about faith
Radovic is considered one of the most devout believers on the domestic music scene. She fasts regularly and visits churches and monasteries, but rarely speaks about it in public. The singer also rarely appears in public in general.
Her attitude toward fasting and her visits to monasteries has been known for some time. This time she also said why: not out of a belief in her own purity, but because in church she looks for help when she is in trouble.
