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Date Posted: 22:30:30 12/13/08 Sat
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Gina
's message, "To Brad, because he doesn't believe in God" on 09:59:52 12/13/08 Sat
That Marine sounds like a typical religous person (intolerant, scared, and threatened of others views) and typical Military meathead "tough guy".
Anyways, as i said before Brad has talked about religion in the past, and i found these quotes from several interviews he gave over the years...
[PITT, THE PRODUCT of a strict Southern Baptist upbringing in Springfield, Missouri, and though he’s no longer particulary religious himself – although he does believe in God – Pitt says he admires his parents for their dedication to their beliefs. Religion just isn’t his thing, too much “like rival high schools”.
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Another interview from 1992....
Q - Are your parents very religious?
Brad - "I don't like that word. They're very dedicated, and I completely admire them for it. What I'm talking about is growing up with someone else's views. You grow up believing certain things: Doctors always heal, or whatever. Then, one day, some things don't add up and the next day you lose your faith. It's a scary place to be."
Q - Did that happen to you?
Brad - "Yeah, I would say that it did."
Q - When?
Brad - "Oh God, I don't want to do this. It'll break my mom's heart. We're very tight, and we've spent a lot of hours talking about this. I think it would break her heart to have it floating around out there, like garbage."
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An interview in 1997...
Q: What is your relationship with the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan buddhism?
Brad: "Unfortunately, with the Dalai Lama none. He has very urgent matters to deal with, we never got the chance to meet. About buddhism, well, you can't avoid to be touched by the culture, when you have the chance to spend time with that beautiful, peaceful, patient, generous people. But buddhism is not for me, or any other religion. I grew up as a christian, but right now I'm agnostic."
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Another interview in 1997...
As a fellow product of the Bible Belt, and given the spiritual nature of Seven Days, I’m curious whether religion ever influenced his decision to make a film.
“No,” he says without hesitation. “What I got most from church was going to a place once a week, sitting this wooden bench, and then my mind would go to bigger things of the day or the next week-girlfriends and school and things. It was an important time, and I like that - that you always take that time out in the week to do that. I don’t agree with everything-and I don’t want to knock anyone’s religion-life’s tough enough. But I did value that. Now, are you going to ask me if I turned Buddhist?”
“Did you?”
“No,” he says with a sly grin. “I think that once you give up religion, you’ve got to give up all religions. That’s the way it seems for me. Everyone has their own religious code, and that’s what I respect. It’s a beautiful thing-actually, it’s huge. But, I just couldn’t keep it from what I saw along the road.”
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From an 1999 interview...
When Pitt talks about his childhood, the details are usually slight. Though the bonds still seem to be strong between him and his family, I suspect that, to an unusual extent, he had to completely leave the world he grew up in - the eternal one as well as the external one - to become who he has become. There is one subject he refers to time and time again, and that is religion.
"I would call it oppression," he says, "because it stifles any kind of personal individual freedom. I dealt with a lot of that, and my family would diametrically disagree with me on all of that."
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