Tuesday, May 17th 2011
QOTD: Don't Get Brad Pitt Started On His Religious Upbringing
In Tree of Life, Brad Pitt plays a Texan who prays with an angry heart. As a child, Brad Pitt was raised in a religious family who believed that God was everything. And Brad Pitt today has totally different ideas about religion even though his twins were brought to this world in a nest made of God's hair by the archangels. Brad told Extra this when they asked him about God (or as LiLo calls him "G-D":
"I got brought up being told things were God's way, and when things didn't work out it was called God's plan. I've got my issues with it. Don't get me started. I found it very stifling."
Fast forward to this week's cover of InTouch Weekly: BRANGELINA SHOCKER! Brad Pitt Says His Divorce From Jennifer Aniston Was Not Part Of God's Plan! Reunion Soon?
And Brad's words might explain why he's a receding hairline away from looking like Jack Nicholson as Satan in The Witches of Eastwick.
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Submitted by Miss Thang on Tue, 05/17/2011 - 10:24pm.
Submitted by WhiskeyTango on Tue, 05/17/2011 - 10:00pm.
Ha ha, point well made, but maybe you could say something more like "I'll be thinking about you", then if you want to pray for the person you can. As a non-christian I would feel uncomfortable if someone said that they would pray for me, unless it was something life-threatening. If a christian says to "oh I'll pray for you" when the problem is something fairly minor, that can sound a bit judgey.
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She already looks 'unusual' as a 50 year old homosexual with at least one facelift.
We will be glad when, in a few more years, she starts to look really weird!
for some people going to church is like giving you a license to be an asshole to the world. My sister and her little asshole son go to church every Sunday, and they're the worst people in my family. And she gets on her high horse about it because I stopped going to church. I don't want be around people like her, not that everyone is like that, but it's too wishy washy, esp the Catholic church anyway. As far as Bradley goes, the guy has shrunken or zero balls by now,. I'm sure whatever Angie believes the douche bag will believe, he prob even took the words right out of her mouth. Let's face it, when has this guy ever thought for himself since he's been with Angie. NEVER.
Submitted by WhiskeyTango on Tue, 05/17/2011 - 10:00pm.
This is most definitely true. I'm an observant Christian and whenever a friend, loved one or coworker is going through a tough time, the first words outta my mouth are "I'll keep you in my prayers." It's my way of lording my superiority over them...but everyone thinks I'm being all thoughtful and shit. Little do they know!
Believe what you want to believe and do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
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exactly. Some of you are nasty assholes just for the sake of being nasty assholes. If someone says they're going to pray for you, why in the fuck would you take it to mean something offensive? You're just being a hateful piece of shit. Just be grateful someone thought to say something nice to your heathen ass. Next time, you don't deserve so much as a kind fucking word.
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I like living this way. I like loving this way.
I am torn between ripping on this idiot who has traded on his good looks his whole adult life (can't act) & completely ignoring him because he's an intellectual cumstain & should be ignored. Well, I guess I blew that, May as well blow my husband twice & call it a hat trick. Damn.
Submitted by _meh_ on Tue, 05/17/2011 - 9:43pm.
I love it when Christians say: Ill pray for you. Its their little way of slapping you in the face,taking the high road.
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This is most definitely true. I'm an observant Christian and whenever a friend, loved one or coworker is going through a tough time, the first words outta my mouth are "I'll keep you in my prayers." It's my way of lording my superiority over them...but everyone thinks I'm being all thoughtful and shit. Little do they know!
Believe what you want to believe and do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
(in the spirit of Dlisted, you could take out the "unto" part of the Golden Rule and it would still be true)
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Submitted by _meh_ on Tue, 05/17/2011 - 9:43pm.
I love it when Christians say: Ill pray for you. Its their little way of slapping you in the face,taking the high road.
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I feel the same way when people say to me, "Good luck!"
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It is simple. He is a Minister Without Portfolio.
um...i thought Brad was very good in "Snatch".
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When so called Christians tell me they'll pray for me, I tell them to suck my cock while they're down on their knees.
Fucking hypocrites!
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I love it when Christians say: Ill pray for you. Its their little way of slapping you in the face,taking the high road.
Or maybe the just don't want me to go to hell, but it feels a little snotty anyway.
OH FOR FUCKS SAKE. BECAUSE NOTHING HAS GONE RIGHT FOR HIM IN HIS ENTIRE LIFE. YOU ARE JUST A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE MARRIED TO ANOTHER MULTI-MILLIONAIRE.
dick
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Whether I believe in God or not isn't as important as knowing that I have a choice to believe or not.
Submitted by Hotmami on Tue, 05/17/2011 - 7:44pm.
Idk...this isn't to offend anyone who goes to church, but in my experience, the ones who go every Sunday are the most hypocritical, back-stabbing people.
*prepares for flamage*
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Totally cosign on that!
Submitted by Uncle Brain-fart on Tue, 05/17/2011 - 7:42pm.
I do believe in God, but i have yet to find a church that i dont see as phony. A church should be the one place where you are not judged for what you have done and who you are. And while every church preaches acceptance, i just dont see them live it.
Just my two cents.
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I feel the same way about churches but I try not to let it discourage me about God anymore. I believe in him, isn't that what matters? I'll admit that while I have visited many churches, two of them I actually got involved in and they were both nightmares. One was a church I was forced to go to as a young teenager where all the other kids my age there bullied me and had me to the point of tears almost every week because they saw me as a disgusting outcast. I quit that bitch once I turned 16 and started becoming more independent. The second one was in my early 20's because it was my ex's church (when we were still together) and was the most misongynistic place to be. They hated women and especially any woman who wore a skirt above her ankles. What a bunch of assholes. After all this I just decided to believe in God my own way and have been doing so for years.
Idk...this isn't to offend anyone who goes to church, but in my experience, the ones who go every Sunday are the most hypocritical, back-stabbing people.
*prepares for flamage*
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I set fire to the rain
And I threw us into the flames
Well, I felt something die,
Cause I knew that
That was the last time,
The last time
-Adele
For the love of GOD, can someone get the man some nail clippers and perhaps a bottle of degreaser-shampoo? His personal grooming & hygiene is shitacular. Not feeling the hot.
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"That's an awfully high horse sir, may I pet him?"
I do believe in God, but i have yet to find a church that i dont see as phony. A church should be the one place where you are not judged for what you have done and who you are. And while every church preaches acceptance, i just dont see them live it.
Just my two cents.
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I believe in God in my home. I despise church though from bad experiences and have no intention of ever joining another one. I wonder if that alone damns me to hell? Still a mystery to me.
I don't know... I don't believe in God. But I would like to be able to believe in something, you know?
But being a skeptic and having too many bad times in life has ruined me, I guess.
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I set fire to the rain
And I threw us into the flames
Well, I felt something die,
Cause I knew that
That was the last time,
The last time
-Adele
And why do we give a fuck what stanky brad pitt believes?
Mr. Pitt is a pretty boy who has managed to create a faux acting career.
His lame attempt to create controversy to generate interest in his new movie is very transparent.
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all i can focus on is "i got brought up"
i was done after that
La Chaylo:
Man, you don't know the "trouble" I've had alreay this year with Christians.. including going to a nature reserve just this past weekend in which I saw dino tracks. I got to see the tracks, take pics, and up comes "creationists" from a university to take photos, too, and they are looking for human tracks alongside the dino tracks.. and they tell me that the dino tracks are actually fairly recent.. not millions of years old. Since the dino tracks aren't there (and they swore they were), th guessed maybe they were "covered up" somehow. My atheist friends love that story.
So, yes, I agree.. they follow rules.. see the world through the lens of whatever their denomination (and I've met plenty who say they're non-demoninational). I have a pretty cool coworker right now who said that the only thing getting her through the breakup of an abusive ex is her "relationship" with the Lord.. and she has two young kids. While I never say she's "wrong" to believe in God.. it gets a bit old to hear after a while, yanno? This has been going on for four months now and it's really draining me at work because she starts a lot of sentences by saying, "I know you don't believe in this, but..." And yeah. Goes on with how God has answered her prayers .. or the next day, when bad news comes .. like her ex getting bailed out of jail... she says God is testing her faith or trying to tell her something. Hmm.
fucking and having kids with satan's twin sister proved this a looong time ago
Submitted by Andrei on Tue, 05/17/2011 - 6:24pm.
When I say I'm not religious, I usually get told that Christianity is not a "religion" but a "relationship with the Lord." Any comments on this?
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Oh Andrei, let me take a stab at it. I lived this growing up.
So, Evangelical Christianity is based on the belief that in order to be saved, you need to accept Jesus into your heart. They hold it is not about religion, but that once you accept Jesus into your heart, you must work on a relationship with him through prayer, fasting, service, reading the Bible, going to church, proselytizing, and following his will.
But what's interesting is I think his "will" varies depending on your denomination. Some folks feel that you're not really saved unless you speak in tongues. Some folks believe you can't have a sip of alcohol or listen to secular music. So I guess this relationship is also based on what you can do to please God, and what you stay away from that displeases him.
Evangelical Christians want to be seen as spiritual, and not religious. But when it all comes down to it, it's all still about following a set of rules to some degree, which implies a doctrine which would make it a religion. IMO, anyway.
@ Hekki - That's cool that your parents didn't reinforce all the fundie stuff. It's good to have level-parents. That shit was forced down my throat - at times, it's still sneaked in but I snark it away.
If we were crazy fundies, you're right, we probably wouldn't be on Dlisted! We'd probably be donating money to Stephen Baldwin's "make me rich again" fund.
When I say I'm not religious, I usually get told that Christianity is not a "religion" but a "relationship with the Lord." Any comments on this?
I hate his hair and those dumb glasses, but he's still hot... at least to me. I like Angelina, I can relate to being someone who did crazy stupid things when they were younger and now wants to move past all that. I don't care that Brad dumped Jen, clearly he had different priorities and it's not like they had kids. Besides, I remember an interview they did with Oprah AFTER they were married and he basically said that people change and he couldn't guarantee that he'd be with her forever.
I've liked MOST of the movies he's done... Babel was highly underrated, for instance.
And you know what, why should he have to keep quiet about his feelings regarding religion? there are 30 million americans that feel the same way and we're pretty damn tired of being expected to sit quietly and keep it a secret so as not to offend the delicate sensibilities of the godbots. There is no god, there is no heaven, there is no hell, there is no soul. Get over it and live your life the best you can and make a difference... because they only way you're going to have an afterlife is if people remember you... and I would prefer to be remembered fondly.
Submitted by CoconutCoochie on Tue, 05/17/2011 - 5:51pm.
Submitted by ZiggyStardust on Tue, 05/17/2011 - 4:01pm.
The whole point is that God's will is worth shit, because God doesn't exist.
The entire concept of God's will is a lie that is spun by people who want to justify their abuse of the world.
THANK YOU.
and ANOTHER thank you from me.
I can just imagine this asshole's "Texas" accent. The torture. No one gets our accents (yes more than one) right.
Penn's in this right? I smell pretentious bomb. Pitt couldn't act his way out of a paper bag. The only reason he got roles was because of his looks and now that's gone
Submitted by ZiggyStardust on Tue, 05/17/2011 - 4:01pm.
The whole point is that God's will is worth shit, because God doesn't exist.
The entire concept of God's will is a lie that is spun by people who want to justify their abuse of the world.
THANK YOU.
Ironically it was God who told him to slick back his hair.
Brad didn't realize that God has a sense of humour.
I come from a religious family and it is extremely annoying. I need more than 'the bible tells me so' as a justification for anything. So, I agree.
*Change is inevitable; progress is optional
*She who conquers herself, conquers all
Was it God's plan for him to cheat on his wife?
Having bad taste in clothes?
Using your excess million of dollars that can help people spent on your over the top life style?
exploiting your kids to the press???
Shit went down when the leaders in our church told my husband that his mom dying of cancer was "God's plan". We haven't been back since.
Pretty boy Pitt hands have never seen a hard day's work.
What's with the orange-tinted sunglasses and greased back hair, anyhow?!?
"If tommorrow was a gift, what would you do with it?"
Once...a long time ago...during communion I was super hungry so I took a handful of the cracker bread things & several of the grape juice cups for a little snack. These church ladies behind me were shaking their heads in a very pissy & disapproving manner.
*snickers but confesses fearfully*
"as am I..."
LaChaylo: Yes, I went to a fundie school. Luckily my home life didn't reinforce that extreme belief, but we socialized with many religious wacko families. Lucky for me, I was introduced to secular logic, or who knows WHERE I'd be right now?
Not on dlisted (coven of iniquity ruled by a sodomite!), that's for sure!
Submitted by MickeyHolland on Tue, 05/17/2011 - 2:17pm.
In the bigger scheme of things he looks like an ass.
What a coincidence; even in the smaller scale of things he looks like an ass.
Submitted by KA on Tue, 05/17/2011 - 4:02pm.
I agree with what you said, and I'd like to add that certain fuckheads, namely this idiot Brad, probably just say shit like that to look ~edgy~
Did he not get married in a church or... Actually, I take that back, since he went and fucked on the whore of Babylon while married, so maybe he really doesn't give a shit about Christianity after all.
Submitted by Hekki on Tue, 05/17/2011 - 3:37pm.
I don't see what he said that was so wrong. It's a free country and he can choose to find religion stifling if he wants to.
I certainly do.
It's not as if he called religious people unthinking zealots and meddling hysterical troublemakers!
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THIS!
It's a choice to believe in God's plan. He doesn't, so what. And in his defense, he was asked, he wasn't screaming it on the mountain.
*passes around communion wine*
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