{"id":13429,"date":"2018-07-13T14:47:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T18:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=13429"},"modified":"2018-07-13T14:47:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T18:47:37","slug":"mario-lopez-speaks-baptism-christianity-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2018\/07\/mario-lopez-speaks-baptism-christianity-hollywood.html","title":{"rendered":"Mario Lopez Speaks Out About Baptism, Christianity and Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MarioLopezAAFeb09\"<\/a>Hollywood has long been known for being rather hostile to faith. Christianity especially is treated by many as a sort of dirty little secret. Other people in the entertainment business, however, refuse to allow the status quo of Tinsel Town to silence them. One of those who continues to live out his faith despite the cold reception to his beliefs in Hollywood is Mario Lopez.<\/p>\n

Lopez, an actor and popular E! News host, recently spoke out about what it is like for Christians who work in the Hollywood dominated entertainment industry. \u201c[Faith] is alive in me,\u201d Lopez said. \u201cIt\u2019s not really as prevalent [in Hollywood] as I think it should be.\u201d Lopez also mentioned the hypocrisy that is common in Hollywood. Though \u201cdiversity\u201d is a common buzzword today, Lopez noted that Hollywood only embraces some forms of diversity. \u201cThey don\u2019t embrace diverse thought,\u201d Lopez said. Instead, there is the expectation that everyone in Hollywood thinks \u201cthe way the Left does entirely.\u201d<\/p>\n

As such, it is unsurprising that Hollywood was baffled by the recent success of independent, faith-based movies such as \u201cI Can Only Imagine\u201d and the flop of the star-studded \u201cA Wrinkle in Time\u201d that removed almost all of the original book\u2019s Christian references. \u201cThe films that have come with a spiritual aspect [manage] to be very successful,\u201d noted Lopez. \u201cI think little by little, it\u2019s making an impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bart Millard, the writer of the song \u201cI Can Only Imagine\u201d and subject of the hit film of the same name, commented that the anti-Christian forces in Hollywood were \u201cscratching their heads wondering what in the world has just happened because [the success of the faith-based film] came out of nowhere\u2026to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for Lopez, he remains an outlier in Hollywood and seems to have no intention of hiding his faith away simply because others in Tinsel Town disapprove. He recently traveled to Israel to be baptized in the Jordan River. He posted a short video documenting his baptism and said that the event was \u201cmoving.\u201d One can only hope that outspokenly Christian celebrities such as Lopez encourage other Hollywood Christians to stand up and refuse to be cowed into hiding their faith. Maybe then, Hollywood will begin to truly embrace diversity including diversity of opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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