Actor Chris Pratt has never been one to be shy about his faith. From sharing Bible verses on his Instagram posts to boldly encouraging youth to follow God at the Teen Choice Awards, Pratt uses just about any chance he can to spread the word of the gospel.
“I want to thank God. I always do that when I’m up on a big platform in front of a bunch of young faces,” Pratt charged the Teen Choice audience back in 2018. “I say ‘I love God, that’s my thing, I love him! And you should too!’”
In an interview with the Associated Press, Pratt opened up about why sharing religious messages with his fans is so important to him:
“It is an authentic thing for me, and that kind of a message, it may not be for everybody, but there is a group of people for whom that message is designed. And nothing fills my soul more than to think that maybe some kid watching that might say, ‘Hey, I’ve been thinking about that. I’ve been thinking about praying. Let me try that out.’”
But Pratt’s openness about his faith has often put him under fire from the liberal masses who have called him “homophobic,” “bigoted,” and more.
What happened this weekend on Twitter is a prime example.
On Saturday night, TV writer Amy Berg staged a little game on the social media platform. Featuring a quadrant with pictures of Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Chris Pine, and Chris Pratt, Berg wrote “One has to go.”
The post launched an onslaught of cruel attacks against Pratt for his faith values, church affiliations, and political stances—so much so, that his name started trending on Twitter, with over 55,000 tweets being generated.
The cutting remarks spanned from Pratt being an anti-LGBTQ Trump supporter to him “radiating a homophobic white Christian supremacist energy”: