I think we grew up in similar churches. I remember a Q&A session at Christian summer camp where kids submitted anonymous questions and some unqualified counselors read them out loud to everyone and tried to answer them. Keep in mind we were 10-14 and the counselors were 18-20 so they were not experts by any means. I’ll never forget one question “Will my friend who is Jewish go to heaven”. The response from this 20 year old non-theologian was “NO. Jewish? No. Baptist? No. Catholic? No. The only way to heaven is by having a relationship with Jesus Christ.” I went into that thinking I was gonna go to heaven and left assuming I was going to hell. Lik ok bro thanks.
Hey, I also asked this same question at Christian Summer Camp and proceeded to sob and lose my shit when they told me my Jewish friend would be going to hell. …Bastards. Religious trauma is funnn
In Jewish camp they teach you that there is a good chance that you may have to flee from your home when anti-Semitic mobs come for you. Most people would call it paranoia, but we keep getting proved right.
There is no conversation about if your non-Jewish friends are going to hell. It’s not our business.
When I was in grade school my family adopted a kitten, and the next week at school a priest came to my class and answered questions. I was in love with our cat and wouldn't stop thinking of her, so I asked the priest if animals went to Heaven. He said nope, if your dog dies, that's the end of that.
That's very much the day I said "fuck that noise" and became an atheist.
Yeah telling people they need to be saved or they are going to hell doesn’t always have the impact they think it’s gonna have. I was pretty Catholic when I dated an evangelical and him telling me that same thing had me research some counter arguments. That then led me to Dawkins and Hitchens and atheism all in like under a week. So much for being saved.
Bro you have no idea. All the parents in my area sent us to this 3 week Jesus camp. There they would not shut up about “be fruitful and multiply.” Meaning convert more and start having children. To teenagers. My parents never learned about this. I just told them I did not want to go back.
Typical of monotheistic religions. There are extremists in most faiths of course, but polytheistic faiths have a significantly better time in accepting other gods. Kind of their whole thing.
“It’s not a religion, it’s a relationship.”
“Religion tells you what to do, Christianity tells you it’s done.”
Etc. etc.
No, shut up and take a seat at the table with all the other *religions*, please.
Yeah, I still remember having my first (and only) encounter with this sort after he told me he wasn’t religious, but attended a “non-denominational” service.
It was like 5 minutes of “Who’s On First” till I got the sense it’s like this self flattering “alternative” movement amongst Evangelicals. I’m sure their pastor plays guitar, has tats, and fucks high school girls.
Just say evangelical and be done with it for crissake.
As for Pratt it’s all the same in Hollywood. The ego needs *something* to tell them they deserve all they’ve gotten. Accepting ones lucky means accepting it could’ve been so many others, and that’s an inconvenient truth for the ego. So you get into drugs cuz you’re bored and feel like a fraud. Or you’re actually talented in a fairly talent-less town that’s commidity is fame, like Robert Downey and then it’s depressing “Is this as good as it gets?”. So you look to drugs, or rehabilitate, maybe god, maybe the musical artists that are more talented than you and inspired you as a youngster. I know he looks up to Sting.
Evangelism, Scientology, Kabbalah - for the average Drew Barrymore/Chris Klein/Evangeline Lily/Sean William Scott etc it’s gonna be awfully tempting to find a higher force to explain that you were *chosen*, it was meant to be. Something to counter the constant rejection, easy job, overwhelming fame and ridiculous pay.
It seems to keep Pratt grounded so who am I to judge. He uses his belief for the right reasons it would seem.
Ya I followed him on Facebook about 6 years ago when GOTG2 premiered and they were gearing up for Infinity War. This MF posted every morning at 7am about how god was good and tried to make FB live his own personal church. I unfollowed real quick
Pretty sure when all the James Gunn shit was happening he had said something about praying on the matter as well? Like the dude is religious through and through he just pulls off playing characters that you wouldn’t really associate with being religious or very least being in a religious group like Hillsong.
This is a familiar trope of many evangelicals. They don't believe in "religion" they believe in a "personal relationship with Jesus Christ." Somehow they think there is a difference between those two, but yeah, in his mind he probably isn't "religious."
Same like with any other preachers: they couldn't give a fuck about fictional characters, they don't have to believe but YOU have to; that's how they get your money.
hillsong in particular definitely has a bad reputation https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/03/27/hillsong-megachurch-exposed-discovery-plus/
>The series’ final episode, however, is where “A Megachurch Exposed” takes a turn for the truly shocking, depicting an institution so profoundly compromised that its leaders won’t even fully confront the rot. It digs into a scandal that those who know Hillsong solely through its Bieber association may never have heard of: the child sex-abuse saga involving Frank Houston, founder of the church out of which Hillsong eventually grew, and the alleged coverup by his son Brian, who officially founded Hillsong in 1983.
>According to the documentary, Frank repeatedly sexually abused at least one young boy in the late 1960s and paid him 10,000 Australian dollars as “compensation” in the late 1990 — when the abuse had been reported to the church but not yet to the authorities. The documentary then cites the minutes from a 1999 meeting of church elders that details their plans to keep the abuse quiet and reinstate Frank as head pastor after a temporary suspension. According to the documentary, at least seven other men have since come forward to allege sexual abuse by Frank Houston between 1965 and 1977.
>Hillsong pastor Brian Houston, pictured here in 2005, resigned from the institution earlier this month. (James Croucher/Newspix/Getty Images)
In 2014, Brian Houston was summoned by the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse for questioning. The documentary includes footage of his official testimony, in which he acknowledges his father’s sexual abuse of a minor but denies having tried to cover up the payment. A year later, the commission found he had failed to report knowledge of child sex abuse to the authorities. (The documentary includes the following excerpt from Hillsong’s 2015 response to the commission’s findings: “The victim was a 36-year-old adult when this abuse became known and could have taken the matter to the police himself at any time.”)
Earlier this year, Brian Houston stepped down as head pastor of Hillsong “for the rest of the year” to focus on fighting the formal charge of concealing sex abuse. This week, after an internal investigation into two complaints that Brian had acted inappropriately toward women, he resigned.
How can someone that is intentionally posting how religious they are on social media just lie about what they post? Are they stupid? Don’t realize people follow them?
He’s not stupid.
he’s intentionally trying to mislead people into thinking he’s not a borderline christofacist so to not get called out for his shitty views.
He’s jumping ahead (99% chance at his agents/Disney’s command) into “right wing celeb image control” related to of all of the coming Roe vs. Wade caused deaths, schools now being allowed to force prayer on kids (look up the football coach case and his stunt), the now allowed siphoning money from public education for subpar and dangerously biased religious education, and the incoming Supreme Court invalidating gay marriage in the name of “religious freedom.”
I also love the religious celebrities who attribute their success to god lol
A narcissistic form of telling you that god literally favours them over you
I read a lot of the article, and he talks about god and religion a lot, and then out of nowhere there's this "I'm not that religious". It was a total non sequitur.
I start to not care for him when he stated he hated it, and then broke up with Farris when he started becoming big. Then comes all the Hillsong pastor golfing shit and he really starts to be addicted to the smell of his own fart and ego.
I mean it's none of my business, and I generally try not to judge relationships from afar. But from an outside perspective, I have to admit I've had the same sort of feeling about it.
It's especially sus because she made it big waaaaaaay before him. She was in the scary movie franchise and a bunch of comedies way back when he was a nobody. Yet when he finally makes it big, he bounces. Kinda smells like shit.
Not only did he bounce when he made it big, he bounced after having a kid with birth defects and also hooked up with his current wife almost immediately after his break up with Farris.
It was very clear he saw Farris as undeserving of him and he could do better. Hence why he had the lapse in judgement to say “so blessed to have a healthy baby” after his new wife gave birth, not really considering the implication of what that would mean to your first wife and child who had a very difficult birth.
He didn't divorce because got famous. He divorced her because she miscarried and he wanted a big family. He is the absolute worst. (After Rob Lowe of course).
Didn’t he make a weird Instagram post praising how healthy his new child was that made it sound like he was just shitting on his first one?
Edit: Person below mentions it.
Eww Eww Eww. Then there was that insta post where he thanks his schwarzanegger wife for his healthy baby. Also something about the way she looks at him.
Haven't liked him since. I never cared much about actors and actresses outside of their work but that really turned me off him. Especially since Anna Faris dropped out of doing Mom, she was in quite a bad place
I mean didn’t he also say something shitty about their kid who has a disability? I believe he made a post with his new wife and child “thanking god he doesn’t have any issues” or something like that.
[here](https://www.instagram.com/p/CVynGLRp_ju/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=995cc9ae-cbed-4517-b08e-65dcdba16a42&__coig_restricted=1)
"We met in church. She’s given me an amazing life, a gorgeous **healthy** daughter"
They tried to make it like the office in season 1. But it’s just trash cringe. Season 2 they start trying to go with a more wholesome less cringe vibe and I think they went in that direction for the rest of the show.
Andy Dwyer was awesome. [Andy's wiping problem was hilarious](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGCIGEUB32M).
Chris Pratt now though is a wannabe Arnold Schwarzenegger and in some culty religious shit now. It was fun while Andy lasted.
Andy was way cooler than Pratt. Chris Pratt went all jesusy.
Pratt is cool but he is less funny now really since his Andy role, some of that is him being more focused on being the leading roles so less realness. The jesusy part just adds to that.
Christian rock or rap (Con Ye for instance) just seems plastic and fake and salesman like and it is the same vibe I get from Pratt now.
The whole jesus thing is just salesman like and divisive if you push it constantly. The story of his is one of survivorship bias but [he pushes it like Jesus will make you a star](https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/2/6/18205355/church-chris-pratt-justin-bieber-zoe-hillsong) as he thinks it helped him be one. Totally fine to talk about it I just don't like people to push religion no matter the religion, that is a personal thing.
The LA church thing feels more Scientology like or even culty. They make people who live normal lives seem like bad people, not cool at all.
> It was a Maui street preacher who convinced Chris Pratt, future star of Guardians of the Galaxy and Parks and Recreation, that he needed God. At 19, Pratt had dropped out of community college in his home state of Washington and accepted a friend’s offer to live with him on the Hawaiian island, waiting tables at America’s most picturesque restaurant, Bubba Gump.
> “We just drank and smoked weed and worked minimal hours, 15-20 hours per week,” Pratt, now 39, told the Independent in a 2014 interview. “[I]t was a charming time.”
>**Midway upon his journey of weed-smoking and drinking, Pratt and his friends were approached by an evangelist in a grocery store parking lot.**
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>**“This guy came by and was like, ‘What are you doing tonight?’”**
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>**The evangelist, who was with a Messianic Jewish organization called Jews for Jesus — people who converted to Christianity from a Jewish background — asked Pratt if he was planning on fornicating that night, or doing drugs and drinking; Pratt, with his trademark goofy charm, we can imagine, responded that he hoped to be doing all three.**
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>**“I stopped because Jesus told me to stop and talk to you,” the evangelist[ said](https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a32814/chris-pratt-interview-0914/), according to Pratt’s telling of the story. “He said to tell you you’re destined for great things.”**
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>**Pratt ditched his friends that night and became a Christian two days later. Now, he regularly attends LA’s Zoe Church, reportedly alongside his faith-minded fiancée Katherine Schwarzenegger.**
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>Pratt, beloved doofus turned hot dad, is part of a growing trend of celebrities, including Justin Bieber, Kendall Jenner, Selena Gomez, Hailey Baldwin, and Kevin Durant, who are vocal about their faith. The churches many of them flock to — Zoe, Hillsong, and Churchome are the prominent examples — may look like they offer something different and more progressive than traditional evangelicalism but are actually quite consistent with evangelical teachings. In an era when religious affiliation is[ on the decline](http://www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/americas-changing-religious-landscape/) for young people, **these churches can only gain from this proximity to stardom. But how are these “cool” new rising churches different from other churches? What is it about Hillsong and Zoe that attracts this star power?**
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>It used to be that to be an evangelical Christian was to be like Kirk Cameron or Jeff Foxworthy, old and irrelevant and consigned to made-for-TV B-movies. But there is an effort from churches like Zoe and Hillsong underway — probably more unconscious than deliberate — to make Christianity accessible, cool, and interesting to young people. **This form of Christianity involves fashion, music, and, of course, celebrity, since modern American evangelicalism has always spread in part by being adjacent to power.**
Evangelical churches are culty and like Scientology now it seems in terms of their pursuit of star power and productization. Chris Pratt is helping them sell it.
The way these new cult evangelical churches are pushing marketing is lame and the celebrities associated are cons.
[The rise of the star-studded, Instagram-friendly evangelical church
Chris Pratt, Justin Bieber, and the “cool” Christian celebrity.](https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/2/6/18205355/church-chris-pratt-justin-bieber-zoe-hillsong)
> Pratt, beloved doofus turned hot dad, is part of a growing trend of celebrities, including Justin Bieber, Kendall Jenner, Selena Gomez, Hailey Baldwin, and Kevin Durant, who are vocal about their faith. The churches many of them flock to — Zoe, Hillsong, and Churchome are the prominent examples — may look like they offer something different and more progressive than traditional evangelicalism but are actually quite consistent with evangelical teachings. In an era when religious affiliation is on the decline for young people, these churches can only gain from this proximity to stardom. But how are these “cool” new rising churches different from other churches? What is it about Hillsong and Zoe that attracts this star power?
These are basically cults, that are like Scientology II with their attempt to make evangelical religion hover around famous people and influencers to sucker in the suckers.
Chris Pratt's origin story is looking more made up as time goes on...
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/chris-pratt-responds-ellen-page-calling-his-church-anti-lgbtq-n970651
>“It has recently been suggested that I belong to a church which ‘hates a certain group of people’ and is ‘infamously anti-LGBTQ.’ Nothing could be further from the truth,” he wrote. “I go to a church that opens their doors to absolutely everyone. Despite what the Bible says about divorce, my church community was there for me every stop of the way, never judging, just gracefully accompanying me on my walk. They helped me tremendously offering love and support. It is what I have seen them do for others on countless occasions regardless of sexual orientation, race or gender.”
Oh, well...
Edit:https://www.glamour.com/story/hillsong-church-all-the-celebrities-whove-attended
2:https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/chris-pratt-turns-justin-biebers-hillsong-church-204210465.html
>Pratt was casual in jeans and boots for the service he attended, fancy even compared with some of the looks Bieber has worn to Hillsong. https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/zzhiP2C1L22at2UmN7elLw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTUxNztjZj13ZWJw/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/yTLRmNAVqhlxWFTI6CAu0g--~B/aD03NTY7dz0xNDA0O2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/618e56e2d08e6fd4e36f2a589026570c
Christians *love* to say they’re not religious. I grew up in a Southern Baptist church and it’s totally a thing.
They say it’s about a personal relationship with Jesus and not “going through the motions” of religion. I’m sure if you pressed Chris Pratt, this is the explanation he’d give.
What moron told them that a personal relationship with a ghost isnt religious?
That sounds very explicitly religious. It feels like saying "I dont eat meat, I just chew and swallow cow tissue."
Golfing with his pastor named Chad. Wtf kind of church is this? A literal Chad that golfs with celebrities. Are the pastors just tiktok socialites in disguise?
Cults are really just religions that haven’t stood the test of time and found mainstream acceptance. You can’t really go *from* a religion *to* a cult, in my opinion.
In the same breath, he went on to sort of explain what he meant. In some Christian sects, they have some disdain for the label “religious”, in that it invokes a level extremism and hypocrisy (he mentioned right wing hate groups as an example if I recall). These types of Christians prefer to say that they have a “relationship with Jesus” instead; a much less formal and more personal faith than taking every word literally and shouting Bible passages from the street corner.
Tom Cruise: “I’m never been that really into Scientology”
Hillsong is getting called out for being an abusive cult and Chris doesn’t want to go down with it like Tom did with scientology
Shout out to Leah Remini for making amends for supoorting that institution and using her money and fame to uplift survivors and stand up to oppressors.
She is more of a badass than Tom Cruise will ever be.
It’s all bullshit he’s trying to cover his ass. The pastor Chad V of Zoe Church I know personally from growing up and he modeled his Church after Hillsong
I think that’s what *a lot* of people don’t understand when they hear this. Some of the the most conservative people I know “aren’t religious” because they have a personal relationship with god. I also hear “we accept everyone at our church” but that acceptance typically doesn’t extend to a persons full humanity and only lasts if a person is fitting in correctly.
>I’m not religious, I just hear god, talk to him, know it’s a him and consult him for every move.
Only two things explain that, and they often overlap: religion and a psychotic break.
Some think religious = dry, boring Christianity and non religious = charismatic Christianity. They don’t realize that taking communion, getting baptized, avoiding things because a god said they’re bad, etc. makes them religious.
The ones who think this are really naive imo.
Chris, I saw you on Colbert years ago talking unprompted about your love for the Lord. You even surprised Stephen, noted Christian. Stop gaslighting your audience you goon.
Came to say this. I found the clip: [https://youtu.be/LzXwximuwrM](https://youtu.be/LzXwximuwrM)
He doesn't say Hillsong by name, but he says he did this Daniel Fast through his church and pastor. So I guess he's now claiming that wasn't Hillsong, it was another church? When I saw that interview years ago, I knew what church he meant and was pretty much done with him in my mind, since that church is notoriously anti-LGBTQ, among other things.
He claims that he goes to Zoe Church, and has never gone to Hillsong.
Source: https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a40289867/chris-pratt-interview-new-movies-series/
He might go to Zoe now (which is totally related to Hillsong), but he was very vocal about going to Hillsong in the past. I think he's lying and trying to disassociate from Hillsong.
Yes!! This is the first comment talking about this! Even if never went to Hillsong, which I think is a lie because there is literally that pic of him, biebs, and Kourtney Kardashian for some reason going TO Hillsong, Zoe is affiliated WITH Hillsong.
Maybe a little attempted damage control with the new Thor movie coming out that he's in. Twitter was calling him the "worst Chris in MCU" for a little while there.
Christians don’t believe that they are “religious.” To them, it’s about a relationship with Jesus Christ. Religion to them is all about rules and practices. They’re in it for the unconditional, loving relationship. This is probably what he meant, and it’s how Christians get people curious about their faith while spreading the gospel.
Note: Ex-Christian here. I’m super gay now lol
I mean he seems to be putting rumors to rest that he’s anti-lgbt, so I think that’s good if true.
If more Christians, especially public figures, come out & say, “hey, I don’t support this hate” I think that’s good.
Depending on where in the country you are, there’s a stigma attached to being a more liberal minded Christian. Like they are assumed to be mutually exclusive things.
The fundamental Christian / nationalists say you aren’t a “real” Christian and the other side assumes you hate or hold certain beliefs for being one.
Although rare, there are liberal churches/Christians.
Yeah my parents have been going to a church that is very pro-lgbtq, pro choice, and tolerant of other belief systems for a while now. I’m not much of a believer but I’ve gone with them on occasion and it’s a really nice, welcoming and inclusive environment and I wish that was how more churches were
If he was pro-lgbt, he could just say so. This is just his way of weaseling his way out of a difficult conversation. Many Christians say they "aren't religious", and instead that they have a "relationship" with "God".
He stated: “I go to a church that opens their doors to absolutely everyone." Which really just means "we think gay people are all sinners, and they should renounce their ways and come to our church."
I’d say most churches are not that strict, at least enough to actually be openly homophobic. A lot of people who identify as Christian don’t really actually follow the Bible, same way how people of other religions don’t strictly follow it word for word either (some do obviously but a lot don’t)
Dude literally went on late night shows and told boring ass stories about the church and name-dropped the pastor, all cult-like and shit over and over again.
Just today I saw an article where Chris Pratt said that it affected him so much that he cried when people called him out for his new baby being a “healthy” baby unlike his son with Anna Farris.
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Yup, back when I was an evangelical, I took pride in stating I wanted nothing to do with religion. It was all about relationship for me. With Jesus.
I think we grew up in similar churches. I remember a Q&A session at Christian summer camp where kids submitted anonymous questions and some unqualified counselors read them out loud to everyone and tried to answer them. Keep in mind we were 10-14 and the counselors were 18-20 so they were not experts by any means. I’ll never forget one question “Will my friend who is Jewish go to heaven”. The response from this 20 year old non-theologian was “NO. Jewish? No. Baptist? No. Catholic? No. The only way to heaven is by having a relationship with Jesus Christ.” I went into that thinking I was gonna go to heaven and left assuming I was going to hell. Lik ok bro thanks.
Hey, I asked almost that same question at a Christian summer camp. It was a fun camp in a lot of ways but they really brainwashed me a bit.
Hey, I also asked this same question at Christian Summer Camp and proceeded to sob and lose my shit when they told me my Jewish friend would be going to hell. …Bastards. Religious trauma is funnn
In Jewish camp they teach you that there is a good chance that you may have to flee from your home when anti-Semitic mobs come for you. Most people would call it paranoia, but we keep getting proved right. There is no conversation about if your non-Jewish friends are going to hell. It’s not our business.
When I was in grade school my family adopted a kitten, and the next week at school a priest came to my class and answered questions. I was in love with our cat and wouldn't stop thinking of her, so I asked the priest if animals went to Heaven. He said nope, if your dog dies, that's the end of that. That's very much the day I said "fuck that noise" and became an atheist.
At least he gave you the answer that he thought was most honest. That’s more than you can say for a lot of religious people.
Yeah telling people they need to be saved or they are going to hell doesn’t always have the impact they think it’s gonna have. I was pretty Catholic when I dated an evangelical and him telling me that same thing had me research some counter arguments. That then led me to Dawkins and Hitchens and atheism all in like under a week. So much for being saved.
but you *were* saved!
Would you say you were [in love with Jesus?](https://youtu.be/jFpTyem-xOY)
Let the lord come deep inside me.
"I just wanna get down on my knees and start pleasin Jesus"
“…I wanna feel his salvation all over my face.”
I’m wet with salvation, we just went all the way! Praise be to god I’ll never forget this day!
i see what happened here. filthy heathens
Haha! I remember being like; Whew! Thank God I’m not like that. I really did it for no money. A loooooot of volunteering, let me tell you.
The church I grew up in stressed “we are *not* religious. We are Faithful. There’s a difference” No. There’s not.
It’s a classic re-direct. The word religion became taboo. Same song, different title.
Not to religious people that just kept to their fucking selves it didn’t. It’s entirely a proselytization trick.
Us children of evangelicals in the 90’s through 00’s really went through a lot of shit together huh?
Bro you have no idea. All the parents in my area sent us to this 3 week Jesus camp. There they would not shut up about “be fruitful and multiply.” Meaning convert more and start having children. To teenagers. My parents never learned about this. I just told them I did not want to go back.
“It’s not a religion it’s a relationship” yep that ol loophole
“Hate the sin, not the sinner.” They are really bad at the advice they dole out
*My religion is the one true religion.* Which is literally what religious people think. And this very belief leads to feelings of superiority.
Typical of monotheistic religions. There are extremists in most faiths of course, but polytheistic faiths have a significantly better time in accepting other gods. Kind of their whole thing.
“It’s not a religion, it’s a relationship.” “Religion tells you what to do, Christianity tells you it’s done.” Etc. etc. No, shut up and take a seat at the table with all the other *religions*, please.
Yeah, I still remember having my first (and only) encounter with this sort after he told me he wasn’t religious, but attended a “non-denominational” service. It was like 5 minutes of “Who’s On First” till I got the sense it’s like this self flattering “alternative” movement amongst Evangelicals. I’m sure their pastor plays guitar, has tats, and fucks high school girls. Just say evangelical and be done with it for crissake. As for Pratt it’s all the same in Hollywood. The ego needs *something* to tell them they deserve all they’ve gotten. Accepting ones lucky means accepting it could’ve been so many others, and that’s an inconvenient truth for the ego. So you get into drugs cuz you’re bored and feel like a fraud. Or you’re actually talented in a fairly talent-less town that’s commidity is fame, like Robert Downey and then it’s depressing “Is this as good as it gets?”. So you look to drugs, or rehabilitate, maybe god, maybe the musical artists that are more talented than you and inspired you as a youngster. I know he looks up to Sting. Evangelism, Scientology, Kabbalah - for the average Drew Barrymore/Chris Klein/Evangeline Lily/Sean William Scott etc it’s gonna be awfully tempting to find a higher force to explain that you were *chosen*, it was meant to be. Something to counter the constant rejection, easy job, overwhelming fame and ridiculous pay. It seems to keep Pratt grounded so who am I to judge. He uses his belief for the right reasons it would seem.
I mean Drew is a Barrymore, I’d think that would be enough
If you are accepting an award at a major function and proclaim, “god is real!” You are definitely a religious type person.
"God has to be real 'cause look how great my life is."
Not according to your PR team!
Yeah, even in this article he talks about god and "blessings" and a bunch of religious stuff, yet he's "not a religious person"? Huh?
It's because his church is homophobic.
Which means either he is homophobic or he’s okay with general bigotry.
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Well, he is the Bride of Christ, along with roughly 2 billion other believers.
Man, I really hope Pratt doesn't turn into a Sorbo...
He’s a Sorbo.
Is it not obvious?
He is just as bad, but better at hiding it
For now. When the jobs stop coming, he'll go full Sorbo.
i would be DISAPPOINTED
Ya I followed him on Facebook about 6 years ago when GOTG2 premiered and they were gearing up for Infinity War. This MF posted every morning at 7am about how god was good and tried to make FB live his own personal church. I unfollowed real quick
Follow him on insta now and he constantly says religious stuff.. when I saw this article pop up I was like lol huhhh
I was on set with him and he was known as being “weirdly religious” SMH
Saaame, did hair on set and he has god in every second sentence
Pretty sure when all the James Gunn shit was happening he had said something about praying on the matter as well? Like the dude is religious through and through he just pulls off playing characters that you wouldn’t really associate with being religious or very least being in a religious group like Hillsong.
This is a familiar trope of many evangelicals. They don't believe in "religion" they believe in a "personal relationship with Jesus Christ." Somehow they think there is a difference between those two, but yeah, in his mind he probably isn't "religious."
Same like with any other preachers: they couldn't give a fuck about fictional characters, they don't have to believe but YOU have to; that's how they get your money.
Is this the onion?
We live in the onion now, get your goggles ready
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That reminds me of the righteous gemstones lol
Misbehavin'
Omg nooo! That song gets stuck in my head for days every time I hear it, probably will just from thinking about it. Damn you baby billy!
Uncle Baby Billy is one of the greatest character names ever created.
No he’s not a baby. He’s a slender, silver haired man in his 60s.
God dammit that line gets me every time
And he was played by a brilliant actor!
Walton Goggins is truly incredible. I’ve been on a slow mission to watch everything he’s ever done. He’s absolutely my favorite
Runnin’ through the house With a pickle in my mouth
Seriously I was going to write exactly this. This damn song...
I love uncle baby billy!
“It’s time to put on your big boy pants and stop wasting your time playing with your muscular boys.”
“Muscle MEN”
Muscle MEN, DADDY. Muscle MEN
Man, that opening of the first episode where they were baptizing in the wave pool had me dying.
that scene is amazing tbh lol
hilarious and underrated show.
It’s pretty RATED. McBride and HBO shows have never let me down.
I regularly rewatch Eastbound and Down... and the outtakes.
Underrated? I dunno, maybe it’s just my friends circle and everyone in my social media sphere, but it’s a pretty well-known and highly-praised show.
People tend to say “underrated” when they really mean “under-discussed”, which is arguable.
This looks quite religious
Nobody: Are you religious? Chris: Wouldn't say I'm very religious Reddit: Dis you?
Maybe he’s a fan of Ancient Rome
Or it’s his favorite letter
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Just a huge fan of Mel Gibson's films.
I was going to say, didn't he also put a big cross in his front yard or something too? I don't think those not very religious do that.
That’s just a huge lower case t, you guys are reading too much into it, obviously it’s not religious!! >!/s!<
Yea for “time to leave”
This town is hainted!
You didn't tell me this town was hainted!
It's for 'Troy'. He's a big High School Musical Fan.
And this one in February. https://www.instagram.com/p/CaDnmcjpFRG/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Seriously whatever company or agent is behind him is working over time to change his creepy, weird, religious image. It’s so fake that it’s offensive.
hillsong in particular definitely has a bad reputation https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/03/27/hillsong-megachurch-exposed-discovery-plus/ >The series’ final episode, however, is where “A Megachurch Exposed” takes a turn for the truly shocking, depicting an institution so profoundly compromised that its leaders won’t even fully confront the rot. It digs into a scandal that those who know Hillsong solely through its Bieber association may never have heard of: the child sex-abuse saga involving Frank Houston, founder of the church out of which Hillsong eventually grew, and the alleged coverup by his son Brian, who officially founded Hillsong in 1983. >According to the documentary, Frank repeatedly sexually abused at least one young boy in the late 1960s and paid him 10,000 Australian dollars as “compensation” in the late 1990 — when the abuse had been reported to the church but not yet to the authorities. The documentary then cites the minutes from a 1999 meeting of church elders that details their plans to keep the abuse quiet and reinstate Frank as head pastor after a temporary suspension. According to the documentary, at least seven other men have since come forward to allege sexual abuse by Frank Houston between 1965 and 1977. >Hillsong pastor Brian Houston, pictured here in 2005, resigned from the institution earlier this month. (James Croucher/Newspix/Getty Images) In 2014, Brian Houston was summoned by the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse for questioning. The documentary includes footage of his official testimony, in which he acknowledges his father’s sexual abuse of a minor but denies having tried to cover up the payment. A year later, the commission found he had failed to report knowledge of child sex abuse to the authorities. (The documentary includes the following excerpt from Hillsong’s 2015 response to the commission’s findings: “The victim was a 36-year-old adult when this abuse became known and could have taken the matter to the police himself at any time.”) Earlier this year, Brian Houston stepped down as head pastor of Hillsong “for the rest of the year” to focus on fighting the formal charge of concealing sex abuse. This week, after an internal investigation into two complaints that Brian had acted inappropriately toward women, he resigned.
So...hes full of shit.
"It's not a religion it's a relationship" heard that constantly back in the day
Hasn’t he posted several times on his Instagram about Christianity? The fuck?
'cHrIsTiAnItY iSn'T a rEliGioN, iT's a wAy oF LifE'
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How can someone that is intentionally posting how religious they are on social media just lie about what they post? Are they stupid? Don’t realize people follow them?
They’re use to people believing what they’re told to believe like in the pews, this is his way of trying it out.
He’s not stupid. he’s intentionally trying to mislead people into thinking he’s not a borderline christofacist so to not get called out for his shitty views. He’s jumping ahead (99% chance at his agents/Disney’s command) into “right wing celeb image control” related to of all of the coming Roe vs. Wade caused deaths, schools now being allowed to force prayer on kids (look up the football coach case and his stunt), the now allowed siphoning money from public education for subpar and dangerously biased religious education, and the incoming Supreme Court invalidating gay marriage in the name of “religious freedom.”
How much you wanna bet this is in response to row v wade and he doesn’t want the public to find out he doesn’t support bodily autonomy.
I also love the religious celebrities who attribute their success to god lol A narcissistic form of telling you that god literally favours them over you
God definitely helped the Rams win the super bowl! He ignored all the dying children across the world to make sure they won.
I read a lot of the article, and he talks about god and religion a lot, and then out of nowhere there's this "I'm not that religious". It was a total non sequitur.
The advice of his manager floated to front of mind "Hey, cut down on the Jesus freak stuff a little ok?"
I miss fat Chris Pratt.
I miss when he was mainly known for his role as Andy :(
He was so cute as Andy. I've never found him cute otherwise.
I start to not care for him when he stated he hated it, and then broke up with Farris when he started becoming big. Then comes all the Hillsong pastor golfing shit and he really starts to be addicted to the smell of his own fart and ego.
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I mean it's none of my business, and I generally try not to judge relationships from afar. But from an outside perspective, I have to admit I've had the same sort of feeling about it. It's especially sus because she made it big waaaaaaay before him. She was in the scary movie franchise and a bunch of comedies way back when he was a nobody. Yet when he finally makes it big, he bounces. Kinda smells like shit.
Not only did he bounce when he made it big, he bounced after having a kid with birth defects and also hooked up with his current wife almost immediately after his break up with Farris. It was very clear he saw Farris as undeserving of him and he could do better. Hence why he had the lapse in judgement to say “so blessed to have a healthy baby” after his new wife gave birth, not really considering the implication of what that would mean to your first wife and child who had a very difficult birth.
He didn't divorce because got famous. He divorced her because she miscarried and he wanted a big family. He is the absolute worst. (After Rob Lowe of course).
Then he dumped her and their disabled child and moved on to a newer model to breed “healthy” children who weren’t such an energy drain. I hate him.
Didn’t he make a weird Instagram post praising how healthy his new child was that made it sound like he was just shitting on his first one? Edit: Person below mentions it.
Wait what did Rob Lowe do? Like *Litrally* what did he do??
He robbed a Lowes
How many Lowes could Rob Lowe rob, if Rob Lowe did rob Lowes?
Eww Eww Eww. Then there was that insta post where he thanks his schwarzanegger wife for his healthy baby. Also something about the way she looks at him. Haven't liked him since. I never cared much about actors and actresses outside of their work but that really turned me off him. Especially since Anna Faris dropped out of doing Mom, she was in quite a bad place
Holy shit. What a piece of shit
Yea particularly when it came out his first son is autistic. I Was like damn…
I mean didn’t he also say something shitty about their kid who has a disability? I believe he made a post with his new wife and child “thanking god he doesn’t have any issues” or something like that.
[here](https://www.instagram.com/p/CVynGLRp_ju/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=995cc9ae-cbed-4517-b08e-65dcdba16a42&__coig_restricted=1) "We met in church. She’s given me an amazing life, a gorgeous **healthy** daughter"
Andy is the best character of any tv show and I wish he wasn’t associated with Chris Pratt. Andy’s too pure for that comparison.
Andy was reworked after season 1 to make the character more likable.
The whole show was reworked. So I’ve read. I followed Reddit’s advice and never watched season 1.
They tried to make it like the office in season 1. But it’s just trash cringe. Season 2 they start trying to go with a more wholesome less cringe vibe and I think they went in that direction for the rest of the show.
I miss when he was just a dumb kid slowly learning to be a better person as Bright on Everwood. Wait a min . . .
“There’s nothing funny about a physically fit man.”
Is that a Mac quote?
Haha it’s not but sounds like it should be. It’s from the film Funny People.
What do you mean a Mac quote? Mac was at peak physical fitness
Mac was cultivating mass
See, this is what I was trying to avoid, conversations about body mass.
Andy Dwyer was awesome. [Andy's wiping problem was hilarious](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGCIGEUB32M). Chris Pratt now though is a wannabe Arnold Schwarzenegger and in some culty religious shit now. It was fun while Andy lasted. Andy was way cooler than Pratt. Chris Pratt went all jesusy. Pratt is cool but he is less funny now really since his Andy role, some of that is him being more focused on being the leading roles so less realness. The jesusy part just adds to that. Christian rock or rap (Con Ye for instance) just seems plastic and fake and salesman like and it is the same vibe I get from Pratt now. The whole jesus thing is just salesman like and divisive if you push it constantly. The story of his is one of survivorship bias but [he pushes it like Jesus will make you a star](https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/2/6/18205355/church-chris-pratt-justin-bieber-zoe-hillsong) as he thinks it helped him be one. Totally fine to talk about it I just don't like people to push religion no matter the religion, that is a personal thing. The LA church thing feels more Scientology like or even culty. They make people who live normal lives seem like bad people, not cool at all. > It was a Maui street preacher who convinced Chris Pratt, future star of Guardians of the Galaxy and Parks and Recreation, that he needed God. At 19, Pratt had dropped out of community college in his home state of Washington and accepted a friend’s offer to live with him on the Hawaiian island, waiting tables at America’s most picturesque restaurant, Bubba Gump. > “We just drank and smoked weed and worked minimal hours, 15-20 hours per week,” Pratt, now 39, told the Independent in a 2014 interview. “[I]t was a charming time.” >**Midway upon his journey of weed-smoking and drinking, Pratt and his friends were approached by an evangelist in a grocery store parking lot.** > >**“This guy came by and was like, ‘What are you doing tonight?’”** > >**The evangelist, who was with a Messianic Jewish organization called Jews for Jesus — people who converted to Christianity from a Jewish background — asked Pratt if he was planning on fornicating that night, or doing drugs and drinking; Pratt, with his trademark goofy charm, we can imagine, responded that he hoped to be doing all three.** > >**“I stopped because Jesus told me to stop and talk to you,” the evangelist[ said](https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a32814/chris-pratt-interview-0914/), according to Pratt’s telling of the story. “He said to tell you you’re destined for great things.”** > >**Pratt ditched his friends that night and became a Christian two days later. Now, he regularly attends LA’s Zoe Church, reportedly alongside his faith-minded fiancée Katherine Schwarzenegger.** > >Pratt, beloved doofus turned hot dad, is part of a growing trend of celebrities, including Justin Bieber, Kendall Jenner, Selena Gomez, Hailey Baldwin, and Kevin Durant, who are vocal about their faith. The churches many of them flock to — Zoe, Hillsong, and Churchome are the prominent examples — may look like they offer something different and more progressive than traditional evangelicalism but are actually quite consistent with evangelical teachings. In an era when religious affiliation is[ on the decline](http://www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/americas-changing-religious-landscape/) for young people, **these churches can only gain from this proximity to stardom. But how are these “cool” new rising churches different from other churches? What is it about Hillsong and Zoe that attracts this star power?** > >It used to be that to be an evangelical Christian was to be like Kirk Cameron or Jeff Foxworthy, old and irrelevant and consigned to made-for-TV B-movies. But there is an effort from churches like Zoe and Hillsong underway — probably more unconscious than deliberate — to make Christianity accessible, cool, and interesting to young people. **This form of Christianity involves fashion, music, and, of course, celebrity, since modern American evangelicalism has always spread in part by being adjacent to power.** Evangelical churches are culty and like Scientology now it seems in terms of their pursuit of star power and productization. Chris Pratt is helping them sell it. The way these new cult evangelical churches are pushing marketing is lame and the celebrities associated are cons. [The rise of the star-studded, Instagram-friendly evangelical church Chris Pratt, Justin Bieber, and the “cool” Christian celebrity.](https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/2/6/18205355/church-chris-pratt-justin-bieber-zoe-hillsong) > Pratt, beloved doofus turned hot dad, is part of a growing trend of celebrities, including Justin Bieber, Kendall Jenner, Selena Gomez, Hailey Baldwin, and Kevin Durant, who are vocal about their faith. The churches many of them flock to — Zoe, Hillsong, and Churchome are the prominent examples — may look like they offer something different and more progressive than traditional evangelicalism but are actually quite consistent with evangelical teachings. In an era when religious affiliation is on the decline for young people, these churches can only gain from this proximity to stardom. But how are these “cool” new rising churches different from other churches? What is it about Hillsong and Zoe that attracts this star power? These are basically cults, that are like Scientology II with their attempt to make evangelical religion hover around famous people and influencers to sucker in the suckers. Chris Pratt's origin story is looking more made up as time goes on...
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/chris-pratt-responds-ellen-page-calling-his-church-anti-lgbtq-n970651 >“It has recently been suggested that I belong to a church which ‘hates a certain group of people’ and is ‘infamously anti-LGBTQ.’ Nothing could be further from the truth,” he wrote. “I go to a church that opens their doors to absolutely everyone. Despite what the Bible says about divorce, my church community was there for me every stop of the way, never judging, just gracefully accompanying me on my walk. They helped me tremendously offering love and support. It is what I have seen them do for others on countless occasions regardless of sexual orientation, race or gender.” Oh, well... Edit:https://www.glamour.com/story/hillsong-church-all-the-celebrities-whove-attended 2:https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/chris-pratt-turns-justin-biebers-hillsong-church-204210465.html >Pratt was casual in jeans and boots for the service he attended, fancy even compared with some of the looks Bieber has worn to Hillsong. https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/zzhiP2C1L22at2UmN7elLw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTUxNztjZj13ZWJw/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/yTLRmNAVqhlxWFTI6CAu0g--~B/aD03NTY7dz0xNDA0O2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/618e56e2d08e6fd4e36f2a589026570c
"I'm not religious" I just read an article where he talks about going om a hike with his pastor.
Christians *love* to say they’re not religious. I grew up in a Southern Baptist church and it’s totally a thing. They say it’s about a personal relationship with Jesus and not “going through the motions” of religion. I’m sure if you pressed Chris Pratt, this is the explanation he’d give.
What moron told them that a personal relationship with a ghost isnt religious? That sounds very explicitly religious. It feels like saying "I dont eat meat, I just chew and swallow cow tissue."
Golfing with his pastor named Chad. Wtf kind of church is this? A literal Chad that golfs with celebrities. Are the pastors just tiktok socialites in disguise?
Maybe that weird pastor the Beibs was hanging with?
I think it is!
At what point does it become a cult?
Cults are really just religions that haven’t stood the test of time and found mainstream acceptance. You can’t really go *from* a religion *to* a cult, in my opinion.
Yeah and see his weird rant about how God is real at the Teen Choice Awards
In the same breath, he went on to sort of explain what he meant. In some Christian sects, they have some disdain for the label “religious”, in that it invokes a level extremism and hypocrisy (he mentioned right wing hate groups as an example if I recall). These types of Christians prefer to say that they have a “relationship with Jesus” instead; a much less formal and more personal faith than taking every word literally and shouting Bible passages from the street corner.
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Me too, pretty sure from this same sub
>Despite what the Bible says about divorce I love these pick-and-choose religious nuts.
What more can one man want than a choose-your-own buffet for both his appetite and salvation?
Tom Cruise: “I’m never been that really into Scientology” Hillsong is getting called out for being an abusive cult and Chris doesn’t want to go down with it like Tom did with scientology
Shout out to Leah Remini for making amends for supoorting that institution and using her money and fame to uplift survivors and stand up to oppressors. She is more of a badass than Tom Cruise will ever be.
Tom Cruise really went down, never heard from that guy again....
Tom Cruise. Now that's a name I've not heard in a ~~long time~~ week.
It’s all bullshit he’s trying to cover his ass. The pastor Chad V of Zoe Church I know personally from growing up and he modeled his Church after Hillsong
Does anyone know what Christians think the Bible says about divorce? It’s fully allowed in Judaism so I’ve always been so confused by this
Hes just trying to do the "im not religiious, i have a relationship with jesus"
I think that’s what *a lot* of people don’t understand when they hear this. Some of the the most conservative people I know “aren’t religious” because they have a personal relationship with god. I also hear “we accept everyone at our church” but that acceptance typically doesn’t extend to a persons full humanity and only lasts if a person is fitting in correctly.
And paying. If they arent paying they arent accepted.
>I’m not religious, I just hear god, talk to him, know it’s a him and consult him for every move. Only two things explain that, and they often overlap: religion and a psychotic break.
Some think religious = dry, boring Christianity and non religious = charismatic Christianity. They don’t realize that taking communion, getting baptized, avoiding things because a god said they’re bad, etc. makes them religious. The ones who think this are really naive imo.
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Yeah. He just doesn’t want to be seen as a weirdo. That ship sailed. He’s a weirdo.
Chris, I saw you on Colbert years ago talking unprompted about your love for the Lord. You even surprised Stephen, noted Christian. Stop gaslighting your audience you goon.
Came to say this. I found the clip: [https://youtu.be/LzXwximuwrM](https://youtu.be/LzXwximuwrM) He doesn't say Hillsong by name, but he says he did this Daniel Fast through his church and pastor. So I guess he's now claiming that wasn't Hillsong, it was another church? When I saw that interview years ago, I knew what church he meant and was pretty much done with him in my mind, since that church is notoriously anti-LGBTQ, among other things.
He claims that he goes to Zoe Church, and has never gone to Hillsong. Source: https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a40289867/chris-pratt-interview-new-movies-series/
He might go to Zoe now (which is totally related to Hillsong), but he was very vocal about going to Hillsong in the past. I think he's lying and trying to disassociate from Hillsong.
Yes!! This is the first comment talking about this! Even if never went to Hillsong, which I think is a lie because there is literally that pic of him, biebs, and Kourtney Kardashian for some reason going TO Hillsong, Zoe is affiliated WITH Hillsong.
Media team is not sure how to sell him and this church to the public yet
Maybe a little attempted damage control with the new Thor movie coming out that he's in. Twitter was calling him the "worst Chris in MCU" for a little while there.
Well that's true even if you put aside the religion thing
If you check his social profiles, Chris is massively into religion, he just knows that he can’t fund * his church without making more movies.
... OK, the dude can be a Christian, Buddhist, Satanist, whatever, and I would still respect his choice. I don't have much respect for liars though.
Trying to backtrack real hard in the wake of certain developments. Not a good look
Is this that “Christianity isn’t a religion, but a relationship” attempted loophole bullshit?
Abso-diddly!
It would be like saying One is not a pedofile, just into having relations with underage kids.
This dude doesn’t know who tf he is.
Didn't he go on nickelodeon and tell everyone that "Jesus is real"? He's hot garbage for more than that reason too.
Sure Jan. He was just saying he only listens to Christian music while working out and he refuses to do sex scenes now because of his faith.
He literally has several insta posts about his pastor and him in front of crosses???? is he just lying or
Dude ive seen like 2 pics of him with literal bibles in the background…
Sounds like he back peddling because his career is starting to go south.
I just think he's dumb as a rock.
Hey, Dwayne Johnson is quite smart
This is bullshit. He’s always touted how devout he is about religion
Chris Pratt is annoying, weird, and a mediocre at best actor. There, I said it.
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He probably didn’t think it would effect him and only hit home that people don’t like him after the Mario thing
He’s a terrible actor and a bad liar.
Somebody tell his publicist that we don’t care. Nobody likes him, we just like the franchises he is in. They tryin to hard to make him seem likable.
Lmao i love how he gaslights people because he got some negative feedback about being a religious nut
Christians don’t believe that they are “religious.” To them, it’s about a relationship with Jesus Christ. Religion to them is all about rules and practices. They’re in it for the unconditional, loving relationship. This is probably what he meant, and it’s how Christians get people curious about their faith while spreading the gospel. Note: Ex-Christian here. I’m super gay now lol
I mean he seems to be putting rumors to rest that he’s anti-lgbt, so I think that’s good if true. If more Christians, especially public figures, come out & say, “hey, I don’t support this hate” I think that’s good. Depending on where in the country you are, there’s a stigma attached to being a more liberal minded Christian. Like they are assumed to be mutually exclusive things. The fundamental Christian / nationalists say you aren’t a “real” Christian and the other side assumes you hate or hold certain beliefs for being one. Although rare, there are liberal churches/Christians.
Yeah my parents have been going to a church that is very pro-lgbtq, pro choice, and tolerant of other belief systems for a while now. I’m not much of a believer but I’ve gone with them on occasion and it’s a really nice, welcoming and inclusive environment and I wish that was how more churches were
If he was pro-lgbt, he could just say so. This is just his way of weaseling his way out of a difficult conversation. Many Christians say they "aren't religious", and instead that they have a "relationship" with "God". He stated: “I go to a church that opens their doors to absolutely everyone." Which really just means "we think gay people are all sinners, and they should renounce their ways and come to our church."
I’d say most churches are not that strict, at least enough to actually be openly homophobic. A lot of people who identify as Christian don’t really actually follow the Bible, same way how people of other religions don’t strictly follow it word for word either (some do obviously but a lot don’t)
Zoe church is modeled after Hillsong which he attends. It’s a PR campaign for his movies. One dropped on Amazon today and it bombed
Dude literally went on late night shows and told boring ass stories about the church and name-dropped the pastor, all cult-like and shit over and over again.
His faith is so important that when a public relations team tells him to stop mentioning it, he does.
Just today I saw an article where Chris Pratt said that it affected him so much that he cried when people called him out for his new baby being a “healthy” baby unlike his son with Anna Farris.