Chris Pratt

[lea1977]

Chris is apparently quite religious, would that explain how he treated pets?

[FotoStoreSheila]

I wrote him off when he said with a straight face that he wants Hollywood to tell more stories about the "average, blue collar Americans", like 99% of the movies released since 1920 haven't been.

[Metairie]

Apr 27, 2017 12:45:39 GMT -4 luminosa said:

On why he won't take pics with fans.

"If I go out and want to do normal things, I have to be comfortable disappointing people. So I just don’t take pictures with people. Because that’s not about enjoying the moment; it’s about stealing the moment to brag about later," he said. "So I say, ‘Would you settle for a handshake?’ And then they take the picture anyway."

Half of me gets it. The other half makes me go- shut the eff up. Brag about it later? Yah. That's what fans do. They meet someone they admire and enjoy and they are excited.

IKR? We have a thread on this very forum dedicated to celebrity sightings.

Chris would do well to remember that these so-called braggarts* pay his salary by purchasing movie tickets.

*I'm not referring to those who cross personal boundaries like trying to take pictures in a restroom or take pics of his minor son after being asked not to.

[dragonflie]

Apr 27, 2017 22:42:46 GMT -4 lea1977 said:

Chris is apparently quite religious, would that explain how he treated pets?

Maybe- ultimately I don't care. "Oh, he's religious, thus he treats his pets like shit." Still an ass in my book.

[Metairie]

Apr 27, 2017 22:42:46 GMT -4 lea1977 said:

Chris is apparently quite religious, would that explain how he treated pets?

Not trying to be obtuse, but can you please explain what you mean by this? I practice my faith, and my pets are among the most spoiled, loved creatures on the planet. My sister said she wants to come back as my cat in her next life. Didn't realize there was a correlation between being religious and mistreating pets. FTR, he & his wife are horrible for what they did to those poor pets

TIA!

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There are some Christians who wholeheartedly believe that humans are superior to animals and that it's important to maintain that distinction. From Christianity Today:

Christianity teaches that humans are unique in all of creation: we are conscious of our existence, aware of death, capable of works of great creativity, and the only part of creation that bears the image of God. Humans alone have eternal souls, which confers unique moral status...The Scriptures tell us that animals are soulless creatures, and will perish with the rest of creation. We will not see them while our souls rest with God; when Christ returns and our bodies are resurrected, we will live in the new heavens and new earth—where there may be new, not resurrected, animals.

As usual when it comes to the Bible, it's all about interpretation. Evangelicals tend to believe in the above interpretation and, from the way Chris Pratt describes his faith, it sounds like he is a born again Christian.

“In Maui, about four weeks before I was discovered to go to California, I was hanging with my buddy. I wasn’t quite old enough to drink, so we got somebody to go in and buy us some alcohol. This guy came by and was like, ‘What are you doing tonight?’ I was like, ‘Oh, I dunno. I was just gonna wait out here, my friends are gonna buy me a bottle of Carlo Rossi and a sixer of Milwaukee’s Best Ice. So he’s like, ‘Will you fornicate tonight?’ I was like, ‘I hope so.’ ‘And drugs and drinking?’ It’s like, ‘Most likely, yeah. Probably all three of those things. I mean, at least two of them, possibly all three.’ He was like, ‘I stopped because Jesus told me to stop and talk to you. He said to tell you you’re destined for great things.’ My friends came out, and I was like, ‘Hey, I’m gonna go with this guy.’ I gave my soul to Jesus within, like, two days. I was stuffing envelopes for his organization, Jews for Jesus. I’m not even sure, at that age — I was 19 years old — I knew what Jewish was.”

[Ginger]

I remember reading that when he became friends with Anna Faris (who was married at the time so they were just friends first) he told her all about his pornography collection and all of the sexual adventures he'd been having as a single guy in LA. And that was circa 2006, so I don't know just how strict he is about the whole born again thing.

That anecdote sounds a lot like those stories you hear from Scientologists who talk about somebody giving them a copy of Dianetics and that's how they went on to achieve the greatness for which they were destined.

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Yeah, it doesn't quite all add up. It's possible conservative and christian media have exaggerated things. I checked out the outtakes for Parks and Rec where Chris Pratt made a joke about Kim K.'s sex tape and, well, that wasn't a very Christian thing for him to say.

[Metairie]

Thanks highondegrassi! I have never heard of the superiority of humans over animals in a religious connotation other than the creation story, but in my interpretation that just means that humans have a responsibility to other living things. To me, a living creature is a living creature, except maybe lizards, posssums, rats, and flying cockroaches!! But I'm far from evangelical and am not born again, so there's that.

[Coffeecakes]

I am with you on flying cockroaches and raise you ALL cockroaches. They are the devil.