When a journalist from KTO launched in front of the guests of her program “Unexpected faces of personalities”: ” I’m not sure the Bogdanoffs go to mass every Sunday ”, Igor replied, jokingly: “Only every other Sunday. ” A quip characteristic of those that the twins have swarmed during numerous interviews and conferences since the 1980s, and the beginning of their media fame.
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This questioning also occupies Father Bruno Horaist, priest of theMadeleine church, which will celebrate, Monday January 10 at 3 p.m., the funeral of Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff, who died following complications from Covid-19 against which they had refused to be vaccinated.
« It’s very complicated. I believe they were believers, but they weren’t religious at all », Hesitates the priest, already solicited for funeral of Johnny Hallyday. After the Requiem and a reading of the Epiphany Gospel, the family will sing gospel songs in a nod to the twins’ grandfather, Roland Hayes, an African-American lyric singer.
“They had built their own creed”
Among the guests at the celebration, Luc Ferry, former Minister of National Education and close to Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff, specifies for The cross qu’“They were believers, but in their original way, they believed in a mathematician god”. Father Horaist confirms: “They had built their own creed, which did not fit in with that of the Church. “
This relationship between science and faith has occupied many of their works, the first of which God and science: towards metarealism (Grasset, 1991), co-authored with Catholic academician Jean Guitton. Despite a myriad of writings on the subject, the twins used to summon Albert Einstein and his letter from 1936 to explain their connection to the faith: “Anyone seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe. A mind far superior to that of a man. “
Proving the existence of god
For the two PAF stars, “Outside the universe, there is something which is neither material nor temporal and therefore we are getting closer to what religions call God”. Intrigued by the mystery surrounding the notion of divinity, they intended to demonstrate the existence of a god.
Among the latest works on this theme, the book God, science, evidence (Guy Trédaniel, 2021) by Michel-Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies had given themselves such an ambition. Igor and Grichka had participated in the book promotion evening on October 20.
However, the reasoning of this duo of television producers and hosts has been contested by scientific and religious communities, as has their academic work. Last confessional mystery to date, the sending in 2018 of their first work translated into Italian to Pope Francis, reported by The Parisian. And an aborted visit to the Vatican for 2022. As if, despite everything, the brothers had had faith.
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