I haven't been following the news on this, but I saw a headline yesterday and thought WTF?
If Jesus is the only way you can abstain from drugs, alcohol and casual sex... well, that's on you, brother. I mean, good for you, whatever keeps you on the straight and narrow, but don't make it a general rule.
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I will check out some of the news on this soon. I admire the man in many ways, but I thought the headlines were disappointing and ... I don't know man!
Same here. A definite feeling of disappointment. Isolating, too, to think the only people who seem to think the same way as you are all turning to something you can't support, you can't endorse. I dunno. I think it's a political play, so to speak, in the sense that a lot of the people in this right-thinking sphere are Christian, and maybe this conversion is a way of tapping into that audience/solidifying his community?
Don't know, but what I used to admire about Brand was precisely his center position and his fluid approach to spirituality. If you're now saying oh man it's Jesus or nada, it's kind of a turn-off.