In one of the most shocking rebrands of 2022, actor and famous follower of Christ Chris Pratt walked back claims that he’s a “religious person” in a new cover story for Men’s Health after years of telling the public otherwise.
he made at the MTV Movie & TV Awards in 2018 as his Annoying, Evangelical White Man internet reputation began to take hold. “God is real,” he said, accepting the Generation Award. “God loves you. God wants the best for you. Believe that. I do.” In the four years since, Pratt has seemingly managed to grasp why certain viewers were put off by this televangelist stunt .
“Religion has been oppressive as fuck for a long time,” the actor stated in the profile. “I didn’t know that I would kind of become the face of religion when really I’m not a religious person. I think there’s a distinction between being—adhering to the customs created by man, oftentimes appropriating the awe reserved for who I believe is a very real God—and using it to control people, to take money from people, to abuse children, to steal land, to justify hatred. Whatever it is.
Pratt’s ostensibly rehearsed statement is surprisingly introspective coming from the mouth of a famous personan avowed Christian—two demographics that are rarely willing to interrogate why some people have an aversion to them. It’s certainly one of the better celebrity responses to online backlash as opposed to, say,If Pratt spent quarantine reading Sven Lindqvist, good for him. If he’s gradually unpacking how Christianity has led to the current assault on human rights in U.S.
The distinction Pratt makes between being a “religious person” and someone who just happens to love God is common amongst younger, modern Christians who don’t want to be held responsible for bigoted, fundamentalist interpretations of the faith, which is presumably why he references Westboro Baptist Church in the article.
—and claims he “do[esn’t] know anyone” from the organization, which can easily be fact-checked as false. In 2019, the actor’s place of worship became the subject of scrutiny when
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