Pitt-y the fool…

Being interviewed recently in the German magazine BILD, Brad Pitt had this exchange with the interviewer…

BILD: Do you believe in God?

Brad Pitt (smiling): No, no, no!

BILD: Is your soul spiritual?

Brad Pitt: No, no, no! I'm probably 20 per cent atheist and 80 per cent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.

How exactly "No, no, no!" equates with being only "20% atheist" isn't explained by Brad, who goes on to repeat that little mantra again when asked if his soul is spiritual. Now, it may be matter translation from German thought to English thought, but if one says they do not believe that that there is a God, why would you think they believe in the existence of the soul – which apart from God has no meaning – and that this useless soul would/could choose to be "spiritual" ?

But should that little quagmire of neo-philosophical swill not be enough to slake your hunger for ignorant nonsensical new-agey baloney, Mr. Pitt then regales the reader with his deepest thoughts on the meaning of life:

After saying "I don't think anyone really knows.", he goes on in the next sentence to illustrate that what he really means in the first sentence is only the first half of the sentence 'I Don't Think'. How else to explain such a pathetic statement as he next makes? The first half of the sentence is just plain ignorant, and the second half makes the entire thing downright stupid. There's no point in thinking about it before you die?

Is there no point in testing a car's brakes before you floor the gas pedal and race headlong towards a steep cliff?

Is there no point in checking the chamber of a pistol before putting your eye to the barrel and pulling the trigger?

Is there no point in checking for onions and carrots before entering a cannibal's hottub?

Someone needs to tell Mr. Pitt that the only opportunity that one has to ponder the meaning of life is while one is actually among the living – after that…

peace/faith/hope/love in Christ Jesus

serloren

"If there were no God, there would be no atheists." - G.K. Chesterton