the onion couldn't make this shit up
British comedian Russell Brand, facing allegations of rape and sexual assault from multiple women, doubled down on his commitment to Christianity over the weekend.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2024-04-29/russell-brand-baptized-christianity-rape-sexual-assault-allegations
That article omits that Bear Grylls was there when he got baptized for some reason lol
revealed he was baptized Sunday in the River Thames.
It sounds like he was.
Baptized in Shit is a sick album by crust band Extinction of Mankind
This punk ass had me in the first half watching his YouTube for a bit. He's no different from the people he talked smack on. Sellout loser, i hope they throw the book at him.
CW: sexual assault
https://www.theonion.com/nation-could-have-sworn-russell-brand-was-already-convi-1850849838
the only surprising thing about predators fleeing to bornagain churches is how it only occurs to them after they're exposed like everyone knows the church will help predators, he could've done this decades ago
I was for some reason given tickets to see him talk around 2014, and he wouldn't shut the fuck up about god so honestly i thought he already was 'Christian'
i'm failing to parse this, are we agreeing? or debating if abusers don't come to churches before getting caught? they definitely do, it's just weird that someone like Brand could see the proverbial big flashing billboard advertising they're pro-abuse, while being an abuser, and not think to sign up
I was more referencing how the Catholic Church deliberately and secretly protected child molesters for decades
I think I also misunderstood what you were saying
New Atheist grifters not jumping into bed with Christian nationalists challenge (impossible)
Godless grifters: How the New Atheists merged with the far right
one thing i always liked about hitchens was he was a consistent prick and also wasnt a coward... when challenged on waterboarding he actually did it and was like, oh shit this is torture i was wrong and wrote that article
were he alive hed be clowning on these fools and his jerk-stain of a brother
Hitchens wasn’t just a prick, he was an apologist for imperialism just like these three goons were and still are.
The Trotskyist to neocon pipeline is real. Irving Kristol, 1977: Memoirs of a Trotskyist
i was thinking the same thing. Don't need a video, i was there
The family he married into told you all about the circles he moved in and just how left he was.
Ugh, I have a relative who loves his podcast (and Joe Rogan)
So fucking cringe I hate how these assholes grift people close to me
Guess that when people with actual convictions figured out that he was just a venal prick they stopped being as nice to him. He has been trying so damn hard to be the cool radical who stands up to the man for his entire career, harder sell when the guy is older than the parents of the people he is trying to impress and lech on.
Not sure if this is the same as the Dawkins cultural Christian shtick (99% just Islamophobia), Brand seems like the kind of guy that would fall for the love bombing that churches give converts.
Smart move. Only god can save him at this point...oh wait if she exists, she prolly doesn't like any of this shit. Oh well.
He went balls deep into the CHUD grifting scene. Go get those Christo-fascist clicks.
DEEPLY UNSERIOUS
He’s gonna say “you can’t even say you’re Christian anymore” when they arrest him or cancel him or whatever they call it.
ah ok d'accord
