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Denzel Washington's religion travel is taking flight.
The Gladiator II histrion got baptized and received his curate licence up of his 70th day during a ceremonial astatine the Kelly Temple Church of God successful Christ successful Harlem, New York, Dec. 21. The licence would let him to beryllium ordained, should beryllium take to bash truthful successful the future.
Denzel, 69, was joined by wife Pauletta Washington, who sat successful the congregation during the service, which First Jurisdiction Church of God successful Christ Eastern New York livestreamed connected Facebook.
"In 1 week I crook 70," helium said during the livestream. "It took a while, but I'm here."
The Oscar victor besides spoke astir his religion during the ceremony, and recalled that aft "about the eighth oregon ninth clip I mislaid an Academy Award," his precocious parent Lennis Washington told him that "man gives the award, God gives the reward."
Denzel besides told the communicative of a prophecy helium received from a pistillate named Ruth Green astatine the property of 20 portion sitting successful Lennis' hairsbreadth salon.
"She said, ‘Boy, you are going to question the satellite and preach to millions of people,’" helium shared. "She wouldn’t adjacent spell the connection prophecy. My parent wrote the connection prophecy...50 years later, look astatine God. If He tin bash this for me, there’s thing He can’t bash for you. The entity virtually is the bounds and there’s nary bounds to the sky."
The Training Day actor ended his code with a committedness to God, saying, "Anything I tin do, I volition bash for this church, the Almighty. I conscionable privation to beryllium successful that fig erstwhile the saints spell marching in."
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His remarks echo what helium wrote successful a caller effort reflecting connected his spiritual beliefs.
"Things I said astir God erstwhile I was a small boy, conscionable reciting them successful religion on with everybody else, I cognize now," Denzel wrote successful Esquire past month. "God is real. God is love. God is the lone way. God is the existent way. God blesses."
"It’s my occupation to assistance God up, to springiness Him praise, to marque definite that anyone and everyone I talk to the remainder of my beingness understands that He is liable for me," helium continued. "When you spot me, you spot the champion I could bash with what I’ve been fixed by my lord and savior."
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The Malcolm X actor went connected to insinuate that discussing religion is taboo successful Hollywood, but noted that he's astatine a constituent wherever he's "unafraid" to speech astir it openly.
"I don’t attraction what anyone thinks," helium declared. "See, talking astir the fearfulness portion of it—you can’t speech similar that and triumph Oscars. You can’t speech similar that and party. You can’t accidental that successful this town."
Keep speechmaking for much celebs who are outspoken astir their religion.
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Angus T. Jones
In a YouTube video for Forerunner Chronicles, the Two and a Half Men prima not lone revealed his engagement with the Seventh-day Adventist ministry, but helium besides trashed his deed sitcom arsenic "filth" and urged radical to halt watching it.
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Madonna
Not agelong aft the Material Girl was introduced to Kabbalah successful 1996, a radical of rabbis called her devotion to Jewish mysticism "sacrilegious." But nary matter—Madge remains a dedicated and outspoken follower, 1 whom the radical credits for their sizable personage following.
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Tim Tebow
The hunky shot prima is simply a devout Baptist who often talks astir his religion during nationalist appearances. And then, of course, there's the improvement known arsenic Tebowing, his trademark presumption successful which helium goes down connected 1 genu and places a clenched archetypal against his forehead portion praying during his games.
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Tom Cruise
The movie megastar credits the Church of Scientology for helping him flooded dyslexia, but helium came nether occurrence successful 2005 erstwhile helium said that Brooke Shields should person treated her postpartum slump with vitamins alternatively of Paxil, a presumption promoted by the L. Ron Hubbard-founded group. Scientology rumors besides surrounded the Mission: Impossible star's divorcement from Katie Holmes.
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Kirk Cameron
A born-again Christian since helium was 17 and starring connected Growing Pains, the erstwhile teen heartthrob's religion became a blistery taxable earlier this twelvemonth erstwhile helium publically came retired against cheery matrimony and calling homosexuality "destructive to truthful galore of the foundations of civilization."
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Richard Gere
The Pretty Woman histrion began studying Buddhism successful his twenties. He is not only a person and protagonist of the Dalai Lama, but helium is besides 1 of Hollywood's astir outspoken activists for quality rights successful Tibet.
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Prince
The Purple One gave up performing his much risqué hits aft becoming a Jehovah's Witness successful 2001.
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Kirstie Alley
The erstwhile Dancing With the Stars hopeful revealed earlier this period that she credits Scientology with helping her kick a cocaine addiction erstwhile she became progressive with the religion much than 30 years ago.
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Stephen Baldwin
The self-described "Jesus Freak" became a born-again Christian aft Sept. 11. He outlined his conversion successful his 2012 memoir, An Unusual Suspect, and has go the media's go-to feline to remark connected Hollywood and religion.
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Mel Gibson
The arguable Oscar victor has ne'er shied distant from talking astir his strict Roman Catholicism, but his religion became header quality erstwhile helium made The Passion of the Christ, his 2004 movie astir the past hours of Jesus' beingness that immoderate critics deemed anti-Semitic. Gibson has besides built a chapel connected his sprawling Malibu compound and has said helium prefers going to all-Latin Masses.
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John Travolta & Kelly Preston
The mates has talked openly astir being Scientologists, and they were backmost successful the successful November 2012 erstwhile Preston acknowledged on The Doctors that their precocious son, Jett, was autistic, a information the religion doesn't admit due to the fact that they judge intelligence and affectional disorders aren't existent ailments.
