Speaking to Theo Vaughn during a July of 2023 interview, now-baptized Christian and WWE superstar Hulk Hogan explained the background to his Christian faith. According to the Hulkster, he found faith when he was young, then drifted from it in his heady days as a young man, but gradually found his way back to the church after hearing John 3:16.
Hogan’s comments on the matter came when Vaughn asked him about his faith and family and home life growing up. Vaugh asked, bringing up the point, “Did y’all go to church and stuff growing up or was there any faith in y’all’s home?”
Responding, Hogan talked about his faith early in life and how he grew up going to church in Tampa, saying, “I went to Balls Point Baptist Church. I went to Ball Point elementary school over in South Tampa, and I went to Balls Point Baptist Church with my mom once, and then one of my buddies was there that I went to elementary school with and I started going with his family every Sunday and I love the Lord will freaking get you with that.”
Continuing, Hogan noted how he didn’t really get much out of it when he was younger, but then as he got into his teens he started playing guitar for a youth group. “And so I didn’t get it because I was so young. But then later on, I was like 13 or 14 years old, I was playing guitar, a buddy of mine who I played football with in junior high school. He had a, a little Christian youth group and he said we need somebody to play guitar. So I went up there with this guy named Hank Lindstrom and I started playing guitar,” he said.
And then that’s when I started listening to scripture. “And then when I heard that John 3:16, ‘For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.’ Bam. It hit me, you know, and I accepted Christ as my savior when I was 14. I was saved.”
However, though powerful, the faith didn’t stick, with Hogan saying he drifted from the church as he got older, with faith not really resonating with him: “But then of course, I derailed for a long time, you know, and, went back and forth to church every once in a while. And, my first wife was a Catholic and that really wasn’t my thing. You know, my kids went to a Catholic school and went to a Catholic church. I just, I didn’t feel it didn’t resonate with me.”
Concluding, he described how he got back into the church, saying, “And then my second wife was spiritual, but she wasn’t a believer. So that didn’t work for me. And so this lady here is on the team. So we go to church every Sunday.”
Hogan recently gave a similar message about his faith on social media as well, writing, “I accepted Christ as my savior at 14 years old. The training, prayers, and vitamins kept me in the game, but now that I am one with God, the main event theme of surrender, service, and love makes me the Real Main Event that can slam any giant of any size through the power of my Lord and Savior. And so it is, even now, brother, AMEN!”
Watch Hogan’s recent baptism here:
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