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Hope for the Future? Chris Pratt Mentions God (Gasp) During MTV Awards Speech.
Check out Chris Pratt’s acceptance speech during the MTV movie awards. My biggest surprise was that he actually got cheers when he mentions God. I’m shocked they didn’t bleep out the word God on MTV, since it’s considered profane on that channel.
Should there be some hope for the future?
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David French at NR noted this as well today … No, you’re not perfect ‘Just The Way You Are’
Well done Chris Pratt! Righteous.
Well done, Chris Pratt!
I would love to see photos of those folks who cringed in their seats during his speech . . .
That’s ridiculous. It shouldn’t be shocking at all.
Some 80 to 90 percent of American believe in God, depending on the survey. Every major Christian holiday is essentially a national holiday. It’s almost impossible to get elected to high office unless you profess belief in God.
Your argument has nothing to do with what I said. My comment was specific to MTV, which is incredibly progressive and full of folks who get pretty squirmy when you mention God. Yes, I know this because I know people who work there. You can take that how you want.
That’s quite the truth-bomb to a few generations raised to believe just the opposite. I read this last night, but I think it took until this morning for it to really sink in.
David French draws the comparison with Romans 7:
Chris Pratt’s paraphrase:
Boom.
I agree it was a ray of hope. Coming from him, it carries more weight with them.
I love all the superhero Chrises – Evans, Hemsworth, Pratt and Pine – but Chris Pratt is my favorite and he has now pulled out even further ahead. Very gutsy speech. I would call it brave, but even if he takes a career hit in Hollywood, he has Avengers Infinity War Part 2 coming out and should be set for life. But definitely gutsy.
Thank you for sharing this! Very powerful. I like how he sprinkles it in with other stories. I anticipated that he might make just the one God point, but he came back to it–again and again. Bravo!
I wonder what the percentage is, in Pratt’s industry.
I think the poop science got past the MTV censors! That is a joke but still poop science and the truth about God all in the same speech, only Chris Pratt pulls it off I think.
Yes, sad but true. Except for the part about using the bathroom at a party, none of it (should have) sounded gutsy at all.
Well, the Democrats did boo God in Charlotte.
That is letting your cultural freak flag fly. That is standing up for what you believe in the belly of the beast. That is speaking Truth before the cultural temporal power.
Preach it, Brother Chris!
Not so with Bernie Sanders.
An absolutely fascinating point. Potty humor is completely fine but G-d is taboo. Frankly, I liked the potty humor in the middle of the heavy stuff. Ligher stuff makes the heavier stuff more enjoyable. Notice all those sex jokes in Shakespeare.
I have many of the same concerns about love and sex. Somewhere along the line, love became more taboo to talk about than sex. I have a non-coc compliant story about that but it’s not good that sex becomes more important than love.
Well the chances his character does not make it back for Part 2 has increased with this little speech.
Maybe high office requires a belief in a God but anything below that and mentioning Christ is taboo. Too much chance of offending the Anti-Christ types and causing a HR incident.
Do you have any evidence for this?
Good point. OK, he was brave (or stupid).
Okay, so I was tempted to reply to this that Bernie Sanders is, as with most things, an unusual case.
However, then I looked into it.
Bernie Sanders doesn’t seem to be part of an organized religious group. He describes himself as a secular Jew and says he’s not particularly religious. Ethnically and culturally he seems to be Jewish, even if he’s not religious. (I find no incongruity there.)
So, if I had to guess, based on my quick googling, Bernie Sanders may well be an atheist. But idk if anyone had put the question directly to him.
However, if Bernie Sanders is an atheist, like most atheists in elected office Washington, he is not out about it.
This is a trope in conservative victimism circles, that everyone in Hollywood hates religion and blacklists anyone who is openly religious.
But Hollywood is first and foremost a business. Chris Pratt is not only a star in Avengers movies, but in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, they’re not going to write him out because he said something religious. That’s just nonsense.
But isn’t there a difference between the internal culture of MTV, and broadcasts to the nation where the audience is that 80-90% who believe in God? From a business standpoint, you don’t bleep God because those people have dollars to spend with your advertisers, no matter how squirmy the director gets over it.
Wonderful speech.
On a somewhat related note, a cousin of mine, who is pretty progressive, told me the other day that she thinks a huge problem in America is the way men are marginalized and told not to be men. So some of the cultural messages are taking root…but I fear it may be too late.
This is why nobody like you, Fred. #PokeTheBear
Mods (and Fred): I’m kidding! Aren’t you glad I’m back?
First, just because people say they believe in God, doesn’t mean they are religious. Second MTV, is a niche audience. Like any cable channel that gets bundled in with other channels they can afford to be niche, and they don’t have any plans to change that, that I can see. Some of the most raunchiest garbage has been produced by MTV, it hasn’t been about music in 30 years ever since the first Real World.
“Religion is God’s way of explaining Himself to us”. – Me, paraphrasing Lewis
And one specific MTV program was also linked to a dramatic reduction in teen births. (Yes, I know, the finding is disputed.) So, yes, there’s a lot of garbage. But it’s not all garbage.
Yes it is doubtful that there is sufficient evidence that the show actually reduced the amount of teen births. But considering the fact that some of those teen moms went on to do porn, it is hardly a great example.
“It’s almost impossible to get elected to high office unless you profess belief in God” is a trope in atheist victimism circles.