Sinéad O'Connor Explains Tearing Pope Photo on SNL (Flashback)
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00:00 I am trying to fight child abuse, which I believe to be the proof of the existence of evil in the world.
00:06 We know we will win.
00:09 We have confidence in the victory of good over evil.
00:26 To me the Pope symbolises everything that is evil.
00:30 He is a symbol in particular. That picture is of him when he did his tour of Ireland.
00:35 Ireland has the highest instance in Europe of child abuse I experienced of myself.
00:39 I found his presence in Ireland telling the young people of Ireland that he loved them hilarious.
00:44 At least when I studied the history I found out that the people who were responsible for telling lies in the first place were the Vatican.
00:50 Through permitting the invasion of countries and the destruction and murder of entire races of people in the name of God and for money.
01:00 Their subsequent overtaking of the educational systems of all the countries that they went into led to distortion of historical fact.
01:09 Similar to the type of distortion of fact that you see going on in the media for example.
01:15 That is what has led to the murder of the human spirit which has in turn led to the abuse of children.
01:23 To put it in a nutshell.
01:25 Fight the real enemy.
01:27 When did you decide to do this?
01:29 I decided in about the week before hand.
01:31 They were upset with me because I kind of tricked them a bit.
01:33 But I did that because I thought they wouldn't let me.
01:35 Like in England or Ireland there is no way they would let you do that.
01:38 Whereas they were upset because apparently they would have let me and they were annoyed that I assumed they didn't.
01:43 There was like dead silence when you were done with the number.
01:45 What was going through your mind at that point?
01:47 Jesus I don't know. It was a very highly charged couple of minutes.
01:51 Basically to get out of there as quickly as possible.
01:54 There was silence. It was funny because after the first song there was loads of people around and they all came into the dress room and everything.
01:59 But then after that there was nobody around. There was silence for about half an hour.
02:02 There was nobody around.
02:04 Discredited and abandoned.
02:09 Everywhere is war.
02:13 If I hadn't done that we wouldn't be sitting here now clarifying all these things.
02:16 So it was to create discussion.
02:18 To create the circumstances under which I would be asked these questions.
02:22 The message I am giving is that the church must be brought down.
02:25 Destroyed. Their days are numbered. They must be brought down.
02:28 So to rip up the picture is what I am saying.
02:31 Yes it is offensive to people because they have built their lives on this belief.
02:36 And it is going to be offensive. Yes. And many people will not survive it.
02:40 But it has to happen.
02:42 You know what I mean? God says I bring not peace I bring a sword.
02:46 That's the way it goes.
02:47 And we can't heal ourselves unless we fight the right enemy.
02:50 The right cause is no good just dealing with the symptoms.
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