English comedian and actor Russell Brand recently spoke with Fox News host Tucker Carlson where he shared a powerful message about his faith in God and the role it plays in his daily life. Brand emphasized the “need for God,” where he said he could not “cope in this world” without him.
Russell Brand is widely known as an actor who has appeared in many movies, his comedy, and as a podcast host where he has provided commentary on current political issues facing the world. See a clip from the interview with Tucker Carlson below.
Carlson introduces Russell Brand as his guest, “Russell Brand has been an actor, comedian, a podcast host for decades. All of a sudden he’s one of the most forceful voices for the truth in the English-speaking world. He’s also deeply interesting person, a lot of insights about God, Mason Russell Brand. We sit down with him for a long conversation a brand new episode, Tucker Carlson today. Here’s a small part of it.”
Brand begins the segment by discussing his personal spirituality, “As much as I might enjoy the feeling of privilege and luxury and I’m certainly making no claims to be an ascetic. I remember what reality is, I remember that my wellness is contingent upon spiritual connection upon certain values and principles. And they I am sorry to admit involve sacrifice and self scrutiny about my own conduct and behavior, which is often for sure, and I’m working on improving myself I continue to work on improving myself.”
He continues, “So when I sort of him morality, sort of as bombast, or when I hear rhetoric, divorced from compassion, it makes me feel uneasy. So I’ve been blessed with a very practical spirituality like many desperate people, I need spirituality. I need God or I cannot cope in this world. I need to believe in the best in people. I need to believe that there are new alliances possible new ways of us communicating because I see atrophying and corrupt systems delivering get more misery to people and I think it’s increasingly necessary that we find new ways of framing that conversation and looking into our hearts when we’re speaking.”
Brand also spoke about how the lifestyle associated with his stardom led to serious vices which clouded his view of life. However, after cleaning up his addiction he was able have a different perspective on life. He said, “The fact was, I just didn’t have enough self discipline to resist the allure of stardom, and I fell face first into the glitter, and I’m only just pulling myself out now but once I stopped drinking and taking drugs, it became clear that there was a lot more on offer the ability to in fact, as they say recovery, the term recovery is undergirded by the idea that we recover the person we’re intended to be. And this idea of intention, I think, is rather beautiful because when you live in a nihilistic post rationalistic materialistic world where there can be no tell us where there can be no glory, where there can be no meaning. None of us are meant to be anything, but the idea that there might be a purpose for you, that there might be something that you can become this. I found this idea very engaging and very comforting.”
Russell speaks more on his worldview saying, “My worldview is formed by spiritual principles rather than political spin principles that my values are derived from quite simple ideas around kindness, community acceptance, gratitude, and I’m making no claim to practice these principles, anything like perfectly, but at least I know what I’m aspiring to. And I know that my spirituality is about my conduct and how I behave rather than telling other people how they should behave.”
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