Hollywood's 'Most Powerful Christians'

[rossid]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301560,00.html

FoxNews.com links to this original article at BeliefNet.

http://www.beliefnet.com/gallery/hollywoodchristians.html? pgIndex=0

Just on impulse I voted for Denzel Washington as more powerful than Mel Gibson.

Also found a video article on this topic at FoxNews.com.

[SueQ]

Um, Martin Sheen is a Christian? I didn't know that.

[clemsontigers23]

Miley Cyrus is mentioned as an up-and-comer. Hopefully she'll stay that way.

[rossid]

Um, Martin Sheen is a Christian? I didn't know that.It says he took his name from Bishop(?) Fulton Sheen.

[Pixie Wildflower]

Very interesting!

[EmmoGomer]

I've no idea who half (if not more!) the people are on the list!! They can't be that big and famous!!

[middletree]

I've no idea who half (if not more!) the people are on the list!! They can't be that big and famous!!

There's a difference between powerful and famous. The most powerful people in the film and TV industries are behind-the-scenes people.

[EmmoGomer]

Sure, I did realise that ;). I just thought it was interesting that being English I was clueless (yes I know I am most of the time :D) about the majority of the mentioned people on the list!

[pamcharlie]

In an q and a dvd i have kevin smith director of clerks and dogma mentions that he is a christian and that he believes in God etc and on the dogma dvd in an interview he mentions that too. anyway does anyone know if morgan freeman is a christian.

[Valpo]

cool list!

[VerbumReale]

Um, Martin Sheen is a Christian? I didn't know that.

Actually he's a very devout Catholic. From what I have seen I believe him to be a very sincere man of faith.

[VerbumReale]

Here is a link to the web-site for the church that Denzel Washington and Angela Bassett are both members of

http://www.westa.org/

From their statement of faith they seem Pentecostal

[Johnny 59]

Um, Martin Sheen is a Christian? I didn't know that.

He's also a recovering alcoholic, so it stands to reason he would have a "god of his understanding."

[VerbumReale]

He's also a recovering alcoholic, so it stands to reason he would have a "god of his understanding."


Care to clarify what you mean by that??

[Johnny 59]

Care to clarify what you mean by that??

Step 3 of the 12 Suggested Steps of AA:
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

The 12 Suggested Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous*

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

*From:
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
The Story of
How many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism
NEW AND REVISED EDITION
(Second Edition)
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS PUBLISHING, INC.
NEW YORK CITY
1955
pp. 59-60

[VerbumReale]

Step 3 of the 12 Suggested Steps of AA:
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

The 12 Suggested Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous*

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

*From:
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
The Story of
How many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism
NEW AND REVISED EDITION
(Second Edition)
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS PUBLISHING, INC.
NEW YORK CITY
1955
pp. 59-60

So you were just making an observation, you weren't necessarily accusing him of some sort of pluralism or universalism???

[Johnny 59]

So you were just making an observation, you weren't necessarily accusing him of some sort of pluralism or universalism???

No, not at all. Just making an observation regarding his faith in general not specific to any particular religious tenet or lack thereof.:)

[rossid]

I could not find faith info on Morgan Freeman...

[VerbumReale]

No, not at all. Just making an observation regarding his faith in general not specific to any particular religious tenet or lack thereof.:)

Thanks for clarifying. I didn't think you were, just wanted to make sure.;)

[sandyandporter]

I could not find faith info on Morgan Freeman...

Wow... I've been googling for awhile and here's what I've found...

From an interview with Morgan and Jack Nicholson:

"Indeed, the pair differ on many of the big questions in life. Freeman believes in God, though not as embodied by himself in a film like "Evan Almighty" or "a white man up in the sky who looks down on us. . . . What I believe about God is there is that part of all of us, that is the only thing you can call it. You can call it anything you want to, actually. . . . So God suffices."

I'm not sure what this means but it was all I could find!