These stars say that they were believers but they lost the faith. Read on to find out why these celebrities who lost their religion say they no longer believe.
Seth Macfarlane
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane says that he was raised Catholic but lost his religion when he was just 11 years old.
Now he says that atheism is “like the civil rights movement. There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.”
Tyler Okonma
Tyler Okonma, better known as Tyler The Creator, was raised Christian. But how he says he “hates” religion and doesn’t believe in Jesus:
“[Religion] keeps people in a box and won’t allow them to do what the f*ck they want. That n*gga ain’t real!”
Larry Flynt
Hustler founder Larry Flynt became a born-again Christian in 1977. But after being shot and paralyzed in 1978, he declared himself an atheist.
John Legend
John Legend says he was raised in the Christian faith but he’s lost touch with his religion:
“You know I have my issues with faith nowadays. I grew up in a religious home, but I’m not religious right now. But I’m trying to get back in touch with the things that were good about the faith that I grew up with.”
Emily Deschanel
The Bones star broke with her Catholic upbringing when she understood their stance on homosexuality:
“a lot of the reason [I’m no longer Catholic] is the stance on being gay in a lot of the churches… I am not a practicing Catholic or any religion right now.”
Bruce Willis
Once upon a time Bruce Willis was a church-going Lutheran. Now he says religion is outdated:
“Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were important when we didn’t know why the sun moved, why weather changed, why hurricanes occurred.”
Donald Glover
Donald Glover started life as a Jehovah’s Witness but now he’s an “airport atheist, only pray when there’s turbulence.”
George Clooney
George Clooney lost his faith but embraced life:
“I don’t believe in heaven and hell. I don’t know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an individual, I won’t allow this life – the only thing I know to exist – to be wasted.”
Javier Bardem
Actor Javier Bardem grew up Catholic but now he subscribes to other faiths: “I’ve always said I don’t believe in God. I believe in Al Pacino.”
Brad Pitt
The former-Baptist is now “20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic.” Does that add up to 100 percent lost-the-faith?
Jermaine Jackson
Jermaine Jackson lost his religion and found another one. The whole Jackson family was raised as Jehovah’s Witnesses. But after a 1989 trip to Bahrain, Jermaine converted to Islam — and even tried to convert his brother Michael.
Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks was born-again in high school. But after being exposed to a number of religions, strayed from organized faith:
“The major religion I was exposed to in the first 10 years of my life was Catholicism. My stepmother became a Mormon. My aunt, whom I lived with for a long time, was a Nazarene, which is kind of ultra-super Methodist, and in high school, all my friends were Jews.”
Shad Moss
Lil’ Bow Wow was a born-again Christian. But Shad Moss isn’t so sure about his faith anymore:
“For some reason the times I gone to church I feel out of place, like its not for me… Church and religion is something that can’t be forced onto someone.
My philosophy is this: I don’t want to practice the word and still be doing the wrong… I don’t want to feel like I’m misusing the church or the lord for the sake of my bad ways.”
Chris Rock
The famous comedian says his blackness caused him to break with the Christian faith. Or rather, as he famously put it, “a black Christian is like a black person with no memory.”
