Chris Korda and His Four Horrifying Commandments

By Cyril Snijders, ANP

AMSTERDAM (ANP) Questions have been asked in parliament about his performance, the Public Prosecution Service is investigating whether he will commit criminal acts and his security has been tightened. Nevertheless, New York techno DJ and pastor of his Euthanasia Church Chris Korda is still looking forward to his performance in Paradiso on Wednesday afternoon. Korda is not discouraged by the commotion surrounding his four 'commandments': suicide, cannibalism, abortion and sodomy. In fact: "I'm going to write a new bible."

Anyone expecting a satanic socially disturbed man after this information will be disappointed. In the Amsterdam Museum Hotel sits an extremely polite man, who tries to explain his message with many words and hand gestures and repeatedly quotes intellectual kindred spirits. Apart from his painted nails, there is nothing remarkable to discover about Korda, who is just ending an animated conversation with his only Dutch follower, the publicist Karin Spaink.

Korda, 39, acknowledges that his message is not always subtle. But that is of secondary importance, he says. He has a mission, and that is to convince as many people as possible that humanity, led by the US, is ruining the planet. Korda: "Animal species are becoming extinct and no one is doing anything about it. We are all blinded by the mass media."

He also had a completely unique view of the attacks of September 11, 2001. Korda: "The constant repetition of the images of the two planes crashing into the towers made me sexually aroused." Exactly three months later he came up with the song 'I like to watch' and a controversial video clip in which he compares the collapsing towers to hard porn and sports matches. "All three forms of mass entertainment," according to Korda.

It illustrates his hatred of US imperialism. "It was nice to see America finally get caught. That much power has to turn against you at some point. You can't kill people all over the world and stay out of harm's way," says the DJ. The attacks on the American 'phallic symbols' felt to Korda as a kind of compensation for all the time he had been 'perverted' by the American mass media.

His anti-humanist teachings, which can be found at www.churchofeuthanasia.org, have according to Reverend Korda three hundred followers worldwide. They have all pledged not to reproduce, which makes them official members of the Euthanasia Church. Korda has carefully devised the four 'commandments', which can however be followed voluntarily. Suicide and abortion prevent overpopulation, cannibalism saves animal lives and sodomy keeps sex fun and without consequences. If everyone follows his commandments, the world will soon be better. "Humanity is anti-life, therefore the earth is better off without it", according to Korda.

He himself says that he has been on the verge of committing suicide several times, but refrained from doing so because his life's work is not yet finished: a book in which his teachings are elaborated. "The bible of anti-humanism", it will be called. Karin Spaink reacts enthusiastically.

The preceding is a translation. The original language is here.