r/MadeMeSmile • u/CuddlyWuddly0 • Mar 05 '25

Wholesome Moments A Real Gentleman

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u/Robert_Balboa Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25

He was until rumors started going around that he was super right wing and attends far right churches that hate gay people.

He has denied it and says the church he goes to is very welcoming and loves everyone. But the guy who runs the church Pratt goes to admits he modeled his church after a notorious homophobic church who has "camps" they send gay kids to to turn straight.

Then he wrote an article this year saying he won't endorse any candidate which people took to mean he's a trump supporter but is afraid of hurting his career if he admits it since his fan base is mostly marvel nerds.

Then he came out and apologized about his religious stuff and said something like "its not my place to push God on people" and that while he loves God religion itself has been bastardized and he understands why people hate it.

It's just been a strange back and forth.

That said as long as he isn't saying or doing any fucked up stuff to people most people don't care. He's still a huge star for a reason. Because he hasn't really been controversial. He seems like a legitimately nice guy. But who knows I guess. He is an actor.

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u/Sufficient_Toe5132 Mar 06 '25

A pastor who is not endorsing any political candidate is giving the correct answer.

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u/TwoBionicknees Mar 06 '25

they're talking about Pratt saying he won't endorse any candidate. As a hint, most pastors don't have a fan base of mostly marvel nerds, but actors who have been in marvel films probably do.

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u/Decemberbabydoll Mar 06 '25

He won’t publicly endorse a candidate but his financial contributions are 100% democrat of the Goods Unite Us app is to be believed

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u/Nonikwe Mar 06 '25

Right, because everyone gets mad when pastors endorse political views that they align with...

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u/charlie_s1234 Mar 05 '25

He’s hated by me because of his stupid character in Jurassic World

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u/F6Collections Mar 05 '25

Velociraptor’s are supposed to be fucking terrifying. Not some lizard dog thing.

They totally missed the point of Jurassic park with these movies

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u/charlie_s1234 Mar 05 '25

Exactly. And the hero shouldn’t be some buff rough and tumble action hero with magic dinosaur powers. He / she should be an academic struggling to survive using his / her wit and knowledge of dinosaurs.

I hated the JW movies so much 😤

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u/F6Collections Mar 05 '25

Yeah. Dude from ages 5-11 I was terrified of velociraptors.

THINK OF THE KIDS TODAY

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u/new_username_new_me Mar 05 '25

He is “the worst Chris”

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u/ManzanitaSuperHero Mar 05 '25

He sucks. He and his wife bought a gorgeous historically-significant midcentury home in LA, designed by famous architect & landscape architect—and leveled ALL of it. Even the landscape. I have architect friends out there who called me in a fury. Lots of other stuff he’s done that’s not cool, but that’s my big beef.

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u/Arrenega Mar 06 '25

And suddenly it fell into place. He and his wife were the ones who bought, and tore down the Zimmerman House.

This is why the US has no architectural identity, it's just build and tear down, had it not been destroyed last year, it would have celebrated 75 years of existence this year.

Why would someone buy a five bedroom house if what they wanted was a mansion?

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u/ManzanitaSuperHero Mar 06 '25

I agree with you wholeheartedly. It was gross & he’s an asshole. But apparently we’re in the minority and there are hordes of downvoters who think “history, schmistory”.

The house was incredibly important, with not only the home itself but the landscape, designed by renowned architects. It’s a loss. And all so they can build some ugly $10 million McMansion that is way too big for that site.

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u/Arrenega Mar 06 '25

Please, I've read it's a $15 million McMansion.

Reminds me of part of this movie.

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u/Rough-College6945 Mar 05 '25

That's your beef ? He bought something and did what he wanted to his house ? Yeesh.

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u/ManzanitaSuperHero Mar 06 '25

Um. It’s a historical home that was awaiting preservation status. He didn’t inform the city of his demo—on purpose. Sure, go ahead and buy a Frank Lloyd Wright & tear it all down. Who cares, right? Ridiculous.

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u/Rough-College6945 Mar 06 '25

He bought it. Tough shit. If a buy something idgaf what some dorks have to say about my decisions I make with my property.

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u/Smooth_Egg1515 Mar 05 '25

What a dick!

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u/BigBlackdaddy65 Mar 05 '25

Lol, get a grip

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u/ManzanitaSuperHero Mar 06 '25

Yeah! Who cares about historically significant architecture. You’re right! Why preserve anything? Let’s all tear all of it and put up tract housing? Obviously you’re not a fan of architectural history. But many are. And the home was on the list to get preservation status. They did the demo illegally without informing the city of it, bc they knew the significance of the property. But I’m sure an internet troll knows a lot more about historic preservation.

And you’re right! Who cares about demolishing a property down to the damn dirt. Waste? Who cares, right?!

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u/ManzanitaSuperHero Mar 06 '25

I have one. And i understand the importance of historically significant sites. And I also understand why it’s shitty to illegally demo an entire site knowing full well the significance of a property. It was slated for preservation. But, internet troll, I’m sure you understand this much more clearly than I do. Let’s all just level Corbusiers, Wright homes. Meh, who cares! FFS.

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u/MaccDaddyFist Mar 05 '25

He's religious and voted for Trump so by default must be hated by Redditors.

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u/Dementalese Mar 05 '25

Good enough reasons for me to

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u/Prudent_Block1669 Mar 05 '25

Both good reasons to not like him.

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u/Gullible-Grass-5211 Mar 05 '25

And he’s the “rich famous asshole” from Elliot Pages book.

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u/SpiritualBid6613 Mar 05 '25

what did the book say about him? i’ve never read it

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u/THKY Mar 05 '25

So you must be islamophobic, right ?

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u/G2idlock Mar 05 '25

I see where you went with this. Such a dumb straw-man take.

I'll answer in that person's stead; nah, we just don't care for any of them. We don't care to know or hear about them at all, yet that's all religious people ever do. Preach, preach, preach, preach, "DAMNATION", preach... Serves no purpose other than to annoy us.

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u/THKY Mar 05 '25

I’m just putting light on some strange cognitive dissonance, I’m sick of it

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u/vekvok Mar 05 '25

That may be what you think you're doing, but in reality you're just out here making an ass of yourself trying to be a debate bro. They are stupid as fuck also, btw.

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u/THKY Mar 05 '25

Ok so I’m gonna rephrase that for you, are Muslims on your shit list ?

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u/THKY Mar 05 '25

But I’m asking if you’re thought process applies to other people, or if it only applies to white people

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u/THKY Mar 05 '25

I don’t really care to be honest, I highly doubt he is fractionally as bad as you depict him and/or your sources does. Is it bigotry if I say I don’t tolerate people because of the same reasons as you AND they happen to be non white ? Because every time I do criticize them I get called a bigot

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u/vekvok Mar 05 '25

Hmmm, shit on Muslims for being Muslim, and yet the white dude gets the benefit of the doubt.

Showing your true colors here, if they were ever in doubt.

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u/THKY Mar 05 '25

We’re not talking about the same level of misogyny, racism and religion supremacy when comparing Chris Pratt and Muslims, by an order of magnitude, and you fully know it

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u/HalcyonKnights Mar 05 '25

As far as I can find, he didnt vote for Trump, he just didnt endorse either candidate and got a lot o flack for writing a piece on trying to stay neutral in politics. He has a history of contributing to democratic candidates, or at least he did back in the Obama days.

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u/FattyWantCake Mar 05 '25

Two of the worst traits a person can have, short of genocidal.

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u/DeliciousOwl9245 Mar 05 '25

Yeah, I mean those are great reasons.

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u/We-tCoast Mar 05 '25

I used to liked Crisp Rat until I found this out. Haven't seen any of his movies since then but my son likes the Mario movie so we watch that occasionally.

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u/NeonBrightDumbass Mar 05 '25

The comparing himself to Jesus when he got flack for the anti LGBTQ church he follows didn't do him any favors either.

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u/We-tCoast Mar 05 '25

Well he did play the son of a God in one of his movies... guess that probably went straight to his head hahaha

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u/Prudent_Block1669 Mar 05 '25

so you do watch his movies then. got it.

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u/Decemberbabydoll Mar 06 '25

Where did you see he voted for Trump? Or are you assuming that? His political contributions have been 100% democratic according to the Goods Unite Us app

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u/PrezChildMolester47 Mar 05 '25

You told 1% of the story. WTG

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u/MaccDaddyFist Mar 05 '25

and you told none of it. enlighten us.

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u/THKY Mar 05 '25

That’s where tolerance ends for Reddit

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u/PlotRecall Mar 05 '25

Hated by anyone who is civilized you mean and not some caveman superstitious deviant minded witch burner

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u/Abattoir_Noir Mar 05 '25

Ya people are just full of hate and ignorance anymore. God forbid anyone see good in people. Oh, you know this person? You must be a nazi. Oh, your parents are conservative? You must abandon them. No room for nuance or growth or the unknown! I didn't vote so I'm a fascist.

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u/Emergency-Attempt862 Mar 05 '25

Surely you mean theistic. Basically everyone is religious

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u/imnotgayisellpropane Mar 05 '25

I just hate his stupid face. I dated a guy who was just like Andy from Parks (pre-April) who looked like him. I just get bad vibes. And he's a sub-par actor.

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u/Unusual_One_566 Mar 05 '25

It’s because he’s religious and republican. People don’t realize you can like the art and not the artist. I don’t like Stephen King as a person, but as a reader, I love his books. It’s sad that you can’t like a person just for who they are as a human. It’s all politics these days. My grandmother was republican and my grandfather was democrat, they were married 55 years. My husband and I have different views, we’ve been together for 12 years.

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u/jadedcynicalAF Mar 05 '25

Racism bigotry misogyny .. sorry Trumper.... that ain't politics. That's hate speech and hatred. You don't get a pass claiming that that kind of vile garbage is just politics.

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u/vekvok Mar 05 '25

Their old arguments are tired now, but as we see, they keep throwing them out willy nilly.

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u/Aristosus Mar 05 '25

If you knew an artist liked to have sex with children, would you still go with that argument?

Don't try to make it seem unjust for people to make judgments about a person based on the values they support, and then refuse to support their work.