Singer, Grimes has said that she never thought she needed religion, until she had to stop herself doing something destructive. Woman Alive deputy editor, Jemimah Wright looks at what we know of her faith, and of her ex, Elon Musk.
The singer, songwriter and record producer, Grimes, aka Claire Elize Boucher, aka ‘C’ wrote on social media a few days ago that she’s getting into religion and Christianity “because it’s the only way I can quit vaping”, adding that “it is so monumentally embarrassing.”
Grimes, 36, is Canadian, and beyond her music, is famous for having a four year relationship with Tesla co-founder, Elon Musk.
So where is the desire to seek help from Christianity coming from? Could it be influence from her ex?
So where is the desire to seek help from Christianity coming from? Could it be influence from her ex? Elon Musk identified himself as a cultural Christian in a conversation in July last year with Jordan Peterson on X. “While I’m not a particularly religious person, I do believe that the teachings of Jesus are good and wise… I would say I’m probably a cultural Christian,” the Tesla CEO said. “There’s tremendous wisdom in turning the other cheek.”
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He went on to say, “[being] Christian results in the greatest happiness for humanity, considering not just the present, but all future humans… I’m actually a big believer in the principles of Christianity. I think they’re very good.”
Musk, was no longer in a relationship with Grimes, the mother of three of his 12 children, named X Æ A-Xii, now four, Exa Dark Sideræl, now three, and Techno Mechanicus, now two, when he was interviewed, but perhaps his openness to Jesus has influenced his former partner?
Days after Musk announced the couple’s split in September 2021, Grimes shared a new song titled “Love” via her Instagram account. She said at the time that she wrote the track in response to the increased attention she faced after her breakup from the world-famous entrepreneur. “It f—king sucks to be awake / Oh, Lord, I pray my soul to take,” went one lyric.
Grimes wrote on X on 29th December 2024: “I am more of a general deist/ feel like god is physics/ math / sees itself thru our eyes kinda vibe in terms of what I ‘actually think’ (the universe is also probably dead and empty except yeh idk prob not ngl), but there really is something in here that at least speaks to me and what is strange is I never truly needed it until I had to stop myself from doing something destructive. I don’t usually have a drive that overrides my central nervous system that wants to do smthn as destructive as vaping (so so soooo lame).”
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Grimes added that the notion of exploring religion is something completely new to her, even though she was brought up Roman Catholic and with her brother Mac, attended Catholic school in Vancouver. She has commented that her religious upbringing had a significant impact on her: “It totally influences everything I do. I think I have serious latent Catholic guilt issues.”
Grimes added that the notion of exploring religion is something completely new to her, even though she was brought up Roman Catholic
In her recent statement on X she said about her contemplation of Christianity: “This has rly been sending me into a philosophical tailspin tho cuz I have never ever ever had my mind even remotely accessible to religion like I distinctly was extremely doubtful abt it in like grade 1 before I could even be introduced to the concept of doubting it. But I am realizing art in and of itself is possibly what god is. The story you tell yourself is very powerful.”
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In a response to a comment on her post, Grimes said she’s “too corrupt” to be a Catholic. Along with her statement on turning to faith for help with addiction, she added this quote from C.S Lewis’s Mere Christianity: ‘Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different than it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing into a heavenly creature or a hellish creature: either into a creature that is in harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and its fellow creature, and with itself. To be the one kind of creature is heaven: that is, it is joy and peace and knowledge and power. To be the other means madness, horror, idiocy, rage, impotence, and eternal loneliness. Each of us at each moment is progressing to the one state of the other.’
Let’s pray for Elon and Grimes, that they would both have their eyes opened to Jesus, and come to know him as their Lord and Saviour….and that she would be able to quit vaping.
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