{"id":20053,"date":"2022-07-26T16:15:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T20:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=20053"},"modified":"2022-07-26T16:15:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T20:15:53","slug":"christian-director-andy-erwin-wants-chris-pratt-to-keep-standing-for-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2022\/07\/christian-director-andy-erwin-wants-chris-pratt-to-keep-standing-for-jesus.html","title":{"rendered":"Christian Director Andy Erwin Wants Chris Pratt to \u201cKeep standing for Jesus\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Christian director Andy Erwin took to Instagram to defend actor, Chris Pratt from criticisms he has received \u201con either side\u201d as Erwin stated, for his faith. The post shared an image from an interview Pratt did with \u201cMen\u2019s Health\u201d magazine. \u201cReally admire how this guy represents truth in love. Uses his platform to point people to a very real God, not religion,\u201d the director of movies \u201cUnder Dog\u201d and \u201cI Can Only Imagine\u201d wrote in his post<\/a>. He then ended the post admonishing Pratt to \u201cKeep standing for Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite being a very popular and bankable movie star, Pratt has faced a series of criticisms<\/a> throughout the years for his faith. In 2018, he was giving a speech at the MTV TV & Movie Awards<\/a> while receiving the Generation Award. Seeking to say something inspirational, he said, \u201cGod is real. God loves you. God wants the best for you.\u201d Over two decades before giving that speech, Pratt was a 19 year old actor struggling \u00a0to make ends meet when a man went up to him and said that Jesus had told him to talk to him<\/a>. After talking with the man, he left his friends to go with him, leaving behind a planned night of partying. He gave his life to the Lord soon after and, seemingly miraculously, was spotted by a director and given his first role.<\/p>\n

As his roles in shows like \u201cParks and Recreation\u201d began to propel him into stardom, Pratt would take opportunities to speak about faith. After a 2019 interview with \u201cThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert,\u201d actress Ellen Page, who now identifies as a man and goes by the name Elliot Page, called out<\/a> Pratt for attending Hillsong Church. Page declared the church to be \u201canti-LGBTQ.\u201d Pratt has since denied having ever attended Hillsong and despite many of Pratt\u2019s co-stars coming to his defense, these types of attacks have become common against him, particularly on social media. He has even been criticized for making posts about his family, with some people interpreting posts where he praises his wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, as criticisms against his ex-wife, Anna Faris, and their son.<\/p>\n

From the Christian criticism \u201ceither side\u201d that Erwin mentions in his post, the \u201cMen\u2019s Health\u201d<\/a> interview could be interpreted more as Pratt stepping back from his faith rather than standing up for it. In the article, Pratt refers to his speech at the MTV Awards as \u201chubris,\u201d religion as \u201coppressive,\u201d and says, \u201cI didn\u2019t know that I would kind of become the face of religion when really I\u2019m not a religious person.\u201d His comments are more in tune with a \u201cspiritual but not religious\u201d generation and are more palatable to a Hollywood community that has essentially blacklisted actors like Kirk Cameron<\/a>, who has been much more open in sharing his opinions on things like gay marriage, homeschooling, and \u201creligion.\u201d Whether or not Pratt will land on a solid foundation of faith or find himself with a faith more like the world requires can be best summed up in some of his closing lines in his \u201cMen\u2019s Health\u201d interview: \u201cIt\u2019s like,\u00a0Don\u2019t forget where you came from. Don\u2019t forget who you are.<\/em>\u00a0And part of me is struggling with who I am maybe not being who I was.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christian director Andy Erwin took to Instagram to defend actor, Chris Pratt from criticisms he has received \u201con either side\u201d as Erwin stated, for his faith. The post shared an image from an interview Pratt did with \u201cMen\u2019s Health\u201d magazine. \u201cReally admire how this guy represents truth in love. 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