Russell Brand, a Hollywood actor and comedian, announced Friday that he would be baptized on Sunday.
” Baptism. This Sunday I’m taking the plunge! How was it for you”? Brand wrote on X ( former Twitter ).
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Brand claimed in a film that he had heard the phrase” an opportunity to kill and been reborn, an opportunity to leave the past behind and been reborn in Christ’s brand,” that you could live as an “enlightened and awakened people.
The 48-year-old actor suggested that as the modernity’s empty value system crumbles and leaves people wanting more, more people are returning to Christianity.
The growing interest in Christianity and the return to God seems to me to be obvious, he said,” but I know a lot of people are sort of cynical about it.”
” All of us become increasingly aware that there is this eerily familiar awakening and beckoning figure that we’ve all known all of our lives inside us and around us as our value systems and institutions crumble,” as meaning deteriorates in the modern world. And for me, it’s very exciting”, he declared.
Brand joked that he might also be getting baptized in E. coli and toxoplasmosis, and that he intends to get baptized in the proverbially dirty River Thames.
” I may be leaving behind the sins, but I might be picking up some pretty serious viruses”, he said.
In 2023, Brand underscored his need for God in his life, insisting that without Him, he” cannot cope in this world”.
” I need spirituality”, Brand told Fox News host Tucker Carlson. ” I need God, or I cannot cope in this world”.
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The Forgetting Sarah Marshall actress said to Carlson,” I remember what reality is” as much as I might enjoy the luxury and privileges.
” I remember that my wellness is contingent upon spiritual connection, upon certain values and principles”, he continued,” and they, I’m sorry to admit, involve sacrifice and self- scrutiny about my own conduct and behavior, which often falls short, and I’m working on improving myself”.
” Like many desperate people, I need spirituality”, Brand said. ” I need God, or I cannot cope in this world. I have to believe in the best in people.
In his introduction to the segment, Carlson noted Russell Brand has been an actor, comedian, and podcast host for decades, but” all of a sudden, he’s one of the most forceful voices for the truth in the English- speaking world. He also has a lot of insights about God and is incredibly fascinating. Amazing, Russell Brand”.
Brand told his followers that he was reading The Problem of Pain, a 1940 book by C. S. Lewis that explores the significance of suffering in human life, this past December.
In January, he said he was reading Rick Warren’s The Purpose- Driven Life , and that he desired a “personal relationship with God”.
Brand acknowledged that he has not fully grasped some of the prayers in a video that explained how to pray the rosary in April.
” For meditation today, we’re going to do something a little bit different. We’re going to chant the holy rosary”, he said. ” Now, I do n’t know all of the prayers, like it begins and ends with certain prayers. But today, we’ll be looking at the chant itself”.
At the end of the prayers, Brand said,” I’m a little blissed out”.
