Chris Pratt is a major Hollywood star: Passengers, Jurassic World, Magnificent Seven. Contrary to expectations, he is also a Christian. Liberals have a hard time understanding.
Vanity Fair's Rich Cohen sought to explain it:
O.K. Let’s stop for a moment. Because this is strange and so distant from what we expect of a movie star, especially of the clever, slapdash, wise-guy variety. But everyone needs a story to make sense of their life. Even the most successful. The extreme demands explanation. For Pratt, success, so extreme it scared him, is explained by metaphysical intervention. Which caused him to take control. In that moment, he yielded. His path has been clear ever since.
In Cohen's telling, Pratt's story of faith can't be real — it must be psychologically explained. Unfortunately, this is the kind of bigoted view of faith liberals have shown us again and again (attacking religious freedom as a smokescreen to discriminate against LGBT people, or targeting Chip and Joanna Gaines, because their beliefs might make them "hateful" people)
Chris Pratt described his conversion from a sinful lifestyle to Christian living.
I was sitting outside a grocery store—we’d convinced someone to go in and buy us beer. This is Maui. And a guy named Henry came up and recognized something in me that needed to be saved. He asked what I was doing that night, and I was honest. I said, ‘My friend’s inside buying me alcohol.’ ‘You going to go party?’ he asked. ‘Yeah.’ ‘Drink and do drugs? Meet girls, fornication?’ I was like, ‘I hope so.’
I was charmed by this guy, don’t know why. He was an Asian dude, maybe Hawaiian, in his 40s. It should’ve made me nervous but didn’t. I said, ‘Why are you asking?’ He said, ‘Jesus told me to talk to you . . .’ At that moment I was like, I think I have to go with this guy. He took me to church. Over the next few days I surprised my friends by declaring that I was going to change my life.
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