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Christian Hollywood Comeback · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for American Mama. Dear Mama, are Christians making a
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  comeback in Hollywood? Well, let's ask our American mama. Mama, Mama,
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  and joining us now our American Mama. Terry Netterville. When we first
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  started doing these American ground segments for American Ground Radio, we started doing the
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  American Mama segments back with you in and Denise. Several years ago, we
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  did a segment on Chris Pratt when he won a Children's Choice Award from Nickelodeon.
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  Yeah, and he gets up there a room full of screaming kids,
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  and he says, yeah, I've got ten points I want to get across
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  to you, and one of them is believe in God. I do.
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  In the place erupted. Yeah, it erupted. They loved it. They
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  loved every minute of it. I was so impressed because in Hollywood, Yeah,
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  it's actually courageous to stand up for your faith, to stand up for
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  Christianity. And the reason why it's courage is because people will come and attack
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  you if you say Jesus is the Way in the light and the truth right
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  as Chris Pratt does, and people have come after him. And he just
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  did an interview because you have Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy
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  three coming out and people women attacking him saying, oh, you're a bigot
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  because you go to a church and they hate gay people. And he was
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  asked about this and he says, look, two thousand years ago, the
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  world hated Jesus. This isn't anything new. I'm okay with people hating me
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  because they hated Jesus too. Yeah, how remarkable is that. Can we
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  just stop for a second and say, what a legend? What you know?
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  The think about all the kids that just hurd himself. It's okay if
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  people hate me. Yeah, he's okay with it because he stands with God.
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  Right. I love this too, because he said it has recently been
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  suggested that I belong to church which hates a certain group of people and is
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  infamously anti LGBTQ. Nothing could be further from the truth. I go to
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  a church that opens their doors to absolutely everyone. And then he says this,
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  my faith is important to me, but no church defines me or my
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  life. Well, that's another good one of the things that ask Christians a
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  lot of us get wrong. Yeah, the church is not the building the
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  church is the people, right, okay, and all of us are flawed.
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  There is none good, right, So you can't say we're not going
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  to let someone who's flawed into our church because we've got to be following we
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  made them in. If you're a flawed yeah, which I am. I
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  need to be in the church. There you go. I need God,
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  I need him in my life, right, you know. And I will
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  say there are some in Hollywood that maybe don't shout out their faith. They
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  don't, you know, use a megaphone and get that their Christianity across.
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  But speak with convictions, yes, right, they just don't. They don't.
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  They're worried about being canceled or whatever. But I do love the fact
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  that his the director of the Field, James Gunn. Yes, I love
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  that he said, because these people on the left, activists are trying to
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  cancel Chris Pratt. They want somebody else to come into that part because he's
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  a Christian. Yeah, and they've said they've labeled him as homophobic and transphobic,
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  and it's not true. Right, So he said, he said,
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  why why for what? Why would I get rid of him? Because if
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  you're made up utterly false beliefs, about him for something that someone else told
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  you about him. That's not true. Chris Pratt would never be replaced as
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  star Lord, but if he ever was, we would all go along with
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  him. Now there you go, powerful stuff. One of the things about
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  Chris Pratt and I obviously we don't know him personally, but what you see
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  is that everyone who actually interacts with him, everyone who works with him,
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  loves him. They love him whether they're Christians or not. I don't think
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  James gunn is as a Bible quote and Christian right right, But he says,
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  I'm with Chris Pratt. Why do you think because as Sean, I
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  mean, his light is shining from within. He's got God's love inside of
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  him. So he's not going to he doesn't care what the haters say.
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  He's going to continue being a good, God loving person. He's going to
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  treat everybody with kindness as the Bible says. He's not going to judge as
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  the Bible says, and he is going to shine like a diamond because he
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  is filled with God's love and his glory. And when he gets the chance,
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  yes to speak about God, he points people to him. He's unafraid
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  unabashedly, unashamed to preach the gospel. Yeah, I love him for that.
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  He's married to m Arnold Schwartzenegger's daughter and when yes, and when they
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  had their baby girl, Um, he says, I'm like, I'm just
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  thrilled to have a healthy baby girl or a healthy baby the girl. Yeah,
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  I think so. And all the haters came out saying that he was
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  actually being Yes, they tried so hard to cancel, and he just that
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  made him angry. But he because of who he is, He's like,
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  I stand on my faith. I know what I said, I know what
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  I meant. They're trying to hurt me. They're trying to harm me.
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  But this is what he said to end it all. And I thought this
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  was pretty funny. He said, when it comes to handling the haters,
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  he said, it's like anything else, like a rhinos, stick your head
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  down, you keep driving forward, you have thick skin, and if anyone
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  gets in your way, you stick the horn right up there. A you
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  know, like he's able to use humor. And I think a lot of
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  his fellow actors love and appreciate him because of that humor, right, and
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  because he does have a loving spirit. And I thought, you know what,
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  that's what we need to do. We need to be like that rhinos,
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  stick our head down, move forward, a loving spirit with thick skin.
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  Yes, you gotta have. That's that's really really interesting. And look,
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  there's been other Christian movies that have had success. Kelsey Grammar's had some
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  success, Jonathan Roomy's becoming a star. Maybe there is a comeback for Christian
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