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Alan Ritchson pls don't stop giving me reasons to love you, lol.
This dude is definitely my favorite Hollywood rising star.
I didn’t know his name before today, but now I think he’s awesome! I might even give his show a try.
He has three main shows that he's part of, the first is Blue Mountain State, it's a raunchy college football comedy, not that great, but Ritchson steals the show, the next is a comic book series, Titans, based on DC's Teen Titans, he plays Hawk and as someone who read Hawk & Dove he plays Hawk near perfectly, so the third is Reacher, this is the first series where he's the star, very good detective style series about a former Military Police Officer who headed a special investigations squad, but now lives a "Billy Jack/Rambo-esque" lifestyle of traveling and putting down villains.
All three are fantastic in their own way, Ritchson also has a few movies he's been in as well.
Blue mountain state is such a hilarious parody of US college sports culture.
Ritchson is always type-casted as a jock cool-guy because of his looks, but I think he has quite a decent acting breadth.
Interesting. Thanks!
Reacher is fantastic television and I highly recommend it. Easily binge-able
Good to know. Appreciate it!
I'm impressed just by this. It isn't often that you see a self professed Christian celebrity actually calling out the hypocrisy of evangelical Christians and pointing out they've become antithetical to Jesus' teachings.
He's using his platform in a way that's been sorely missing in society. For evangelicalism to properly die, it needs to be defeated at both the polls and from within.
Every "real" Christian I know can't stand Trump and all of this other garbage, it always seems to he the fake Christians who tell people that they should go to church while they themselves don't, and similar folks who seem to love Trump and the prosperity gospel.
Don't get me wrong, I know there are whole congregations of idiots, but I'm just saying the ones I know personally who are very into their religion yet retain their open mindedness seem to be the ones who are against this crap, meanwhile "religious types" like my own father who never go to church and constantly try to push religion on me and the rest of the family, always seem to be the Trumpers. (Also not surprising my dad is a retired LEO)
Yeah that's my general experience too. "Real" Christians understand that they're not supposed to judge, because they're sinners like everyone else. They might not like abortion, but they don't want to legislate their beliefs nor judge someone who does get one.
Jesus chose to hang out with prostitutes and poor people. He protected them from self righteous crowds, and fed the hungry and healed the sick. He even happily paid his taxes lmao. He didn't go establish a theocracy or force people to do things. He told people to love each other, no matter who they were. The Good Samaritan is a parable against xenophobia and racism.
Biblical Jesus is actually a pretty cool dude. The WWJD crowd would do well to actually act like him.