{"id":2998,"date":"2009-07-24T14:34:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T14:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2009\/07\/quote-of-the-day-brad-pitt-on.html"},"modified":"2009-07-24T14:34:18","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T14:34:18","slug":"quote-of-the-day-brad-pitt-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2009\/07\/quote-of-the-day-brad-pitt-on.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day: Brad Pitt on God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bradpitt.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/import\/imgs\/bradpitt.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"208\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/span>Brad Pitt recently gave an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bild.de\/BILD\/news\/bild-english\/celebrity-gossip\/2009\/07\/22\/brad-pitt-interview\/inglourious-basterd-star-on-angelina-jolie-and-six-kids.html\" target=\"_blank\">interesting interview to the German magazine Bild<\/a> in which he opens up about his spiritual life&#8211;or lack thereof.<br \/>\n<strong>BILD:<\/strong> Do you believe in God?<br \/>\n<strong>Brad Pitt<\/strong> (smiling): &#8220;No, no, no!&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>BILD:<\/strong> Is your soul spiritual?<br \/>\n<strong>Brad Pitt:<\/strong> &#8220;No, no, no! I&#8217;m probably 20 per cent atheist and 80 per cent agnostic. I don&#8217;t think anyone really knows. You&#8217;ll either find out or not when you get there, until then there&#8217;s no point thinking about it.<br \/>\nEarlier this year Pitt also opened up about religion when he <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2009\/01\/brad-pitt-opens-up-about-relig.html\" target=\"_blank\">spoke to Rolling Stone<\/a> about how he felt &#8220;stifled&#8221; growing up in a religious community (he was raised Southern Baptist).<br \/>\n&#8220;It was too much of what you shouldn&#8217;t be doing instead of what you could be doing. I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives. It drives me mental.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Pitt recently gave an interesting interview to the German magazine Bild in which he opens up about his spiritual life&#8211;or lack thereof. BILD: Do you believe in God? 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