{"id":1532979,"date":"2022-06-29T17:49:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T21:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1532979"},"modified":"2022-06-29T17:49:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T21:49:32","slug":"chris-pratt-on-his-religious-views-im-not-a-religious-person-i-believe-in-a-very-real-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-pratt-on-his-religious-views-im-not-a-religious-person-i-believe-in-a-very-real-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Pratt On His Religious Views: \u2018I\u2019m Not A Religious Person,\u2019 I Believe In A \u2018Very Real God\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchris-pratt-on-his-religious-views-im-not-a-religious-person-i-believe-in-a-very-real-god%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1532979&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Actor Chris Pratt said in an interview this week that he was not a religious person and denied reports that he ever attended Hillsong Church.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt made the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.menshealth.com\/entertainment\/a40289867\/chris-pratt-interview-new-movies-series\/\">remarks<\/a> in a wide ranging interview with Men\u2019s Health magazine when asked about comments that he made at the MTV Movie &#038; TV Awards as the recipient of a Generation Award in 2018. \u201cGod is real. God loves you,\u201d Pratt said. \u201cGod wants the best for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe it was hubris. For me to stand up on the stage and say the things that I said, I\u2019m not sure I touched anybody,\u201d he said. \u201cReligion has been oppressive as f*** for a long time. I didn\u2019t know that I would kind of become the face of religion when really I\u2019m not a religious person. I think there\u2019s a distinction between being religious\u2014adhering to the customs created by man, oftentimes appropriating the awe reserved for who I believe is a very real God\u2014and using it to control people, to take money from people, to abuse children, to steal land, to justify hatred. Whatever it is. The evil that\u2019s in the heart of every single man has glommed on to the back of religion and come along for the ride.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pratt then denied reports from a couple of years ago that he attended Hillsong Church, which has been plagued with scandals in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has recently been suggested that I belong to a church which \u2018hates a certain group of people\u2019 and is \u2018infamously anti-LGBTQ,\u2019\u201d Pratt said at the time. \u201cNothing could be further from the truth. I am a man who believes that everyone is entitled to love who they want free from the judgment of their fellow man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked why he did not specifically mention Hillsong Church in the statement, Pratt said, \u201cI\u2019m gonna, like, throw a church under the bus? If it\u2019s like the Westboro Baptist Church, that\u2019s different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never went to Hillsong,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve never actually been to Hillsong. I don\u2019t know anyone from that church.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Chris Pratt said in an interview this week that he was not a religious person and denied reports that he ever attended Hillsong Church. Pratt made the remarks in a wide ranging interview with Men\u2019s Health magazine when asked about comments that he made at the MTV Movie &#038; TV Awards as the recipient &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1533033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1533033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}