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Another week, and yet another depressing interview with Brad Pitt. The self-loathing boy toy of Angelina Jolie will reveal in this week's Parade magazine that he has turned his back on religion and God in favor of humanism. That will certainly score Brad some points. Parade is the insert that comes with the Sunday newspaper so many folks will attend church on Sunday morning and then come home to read Brad wax poetic about fear and loathing on the paparazzi trail and how God is a myth.

Did Angelina Jolie Drive Brad Pitt Away From God? (Image: Wenn)

One would almost feel sorry for him if it didn't seem like he was only doing all of this for publicity, then complaining that he is hounded by paparazzi. The easy answer Brad might receive if he would actually think about it - stop giving interviews all the time and perhaps they paps will stop bothering you.


The interview makes Pitt look flat out awful. Pitt says he's sad and once again gives his best shot at depth. He doesn't pull it off but he will turn off even more fans and expect the Brangelina backlash to gain steam after this. Pitt turns his back on God and grants us this infinite wisdom, "When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self," he says. "I had faith that I'm capable enough to handle any situation. There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible."

Apparently it wasn't Angelina Jolie that turned Brad off God it was some random girlfriend. "She helped me more than anyone else as far as setting off in my own direction," he explains. "It was my first year in college and I was pushing back against the religion thing. In my eyes it was a mechanism of guilt , this engrained system, used to keep the flock in servitude." Brad was raised a conservative Southern Baptist. "Guilt is the thing I find most evil about it. It's the thing I rail against the most. She helped me in defining what I believed."


"Religion works," he goes on. "I know there's comfort there, a crash pad. It's something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it's comforting. I grew up believing in it, and it worked for me in whatever my little personal high school crisis was, but it didn't last for me. I didn't understand this idea of a God who says, 'You have to acknowledge me. You have to say that I'm the best, and then I'll give you eternal happiness. If you won't, then you don't get it!' It seemed to be about ego. I can't see God operating from ego, so it made no sense to me."

Here's a memo to Brad Pitt. You are trying way too hard to come across as philosophical and a deep thinker. No one is going to turn to you for any kind of guidance in their lives except for the few sycophant fans that are still hanging around. It may be time to listen to what Angelina reportedly told her pal at a bar.

"Just shut up and look pretty."