Not only does Brad Pitt dish about Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie in the new issue of Parade magazine, he also shares his opinions on religion and gay marriage. Although Pitt grew up in a devout Christian family, the actor admits religion no longer “feels right” for him.
"I grew up Baptist, and then the family switched over to more of an evangelical movement, probably right around the time I was in late high school. There’s a point where you’re un-tethered from the beliefs of your childhood. That point came for me when it was finally clear my religion didn’t work for me,” the Moneyball star reveals.
“I had questions about Christianity that I could not get answered to my satisfaction, questions that I’d been asking since I was in kindergarten. I realized it didn’t feel right to me, that one question just led to another,” he explains. “It was like going down a rabbit hole, each answer provoking another question. There were things I didn’t agree with.”
Despite his new beliefs, Pitt says he and his family still get along. “We don’t see eye to eye on this one, yet at the end of the day we love each other, we’re still family,” he tells Parade.
As for gay marriage, Pitt says he feels “sadness” for those who try to keep it from becoming legal in all states. “I don’t mind a world with religion in it. There are some beautiful tenets within all religions. What I get hot about is when they start dictating how other people must live,” he says. “You grow up in a religion like that and you try to pray the gay away. I feel sadness for people like that.”
