Posted on 02/04/2012 4:12:03 PM PST by bimboeruption
HOLLYWOOD star Liam Neeson is considering giving up his Catholic belief and becoming a Muslim.
The actor, 59, admitted Islamic prayer "got into his spirit" while filming in Turkish city Istanbul.
He said: "The Call to Prayer happens five times a day and for the first week it drives you crazy, and then it just gets into your spirit and it's the most beautiful, beautiful thing.
"There are 4,000 mosques in the city. Some are just stunning and it really makes me think about becoming a Muslim."
Liam was raised in Northern Ireland as a devout Catholic and altar boy and was named after the local priest.
But the star — whose wife Natasha Richardson died aged 45 in a skiing accident in 2009 — has spoken about challenges to his faith.
He said: "I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about?
"I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism."
Liam was criticised in 2010 after claiming Narnia lion Aslan — voiced by him in the movies — is not based on Christ as CS Lewis had claimed but in fact all spiritual leaders including Mohammed.
His latest film The Grey, about an oil drilling team who crash in freezing Alaska, is released in the UK on Friday.
He said: “I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What’s it all about?
“I’m constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.”
The Holy Bible answers His Questions......To bring Glory to God.
I feel sorry for Liam.....Cults have a strong attraction
with Beauty,Words,Emotion.
But Jesus said, “I am the way the truth and the Life”
“No One comes to the father, but by Me”
I think the loss of his wife has cracked the foundations of his Faith.
You ought to do a little more research. The overwhelming majority (80% by some estimates) of western converts to islam (outside of the prison system) are career women in their 20s to 30s.
Weird headline alert.
Neeson wants to do “standup, parody, improv... slapstick”.
Enjoy yourself liam, I hear they are loads of laughs. Right up your alley.
The new rulers instituted a system called Devshirme, under which likely boys and girls from Christian villages were selected each year to become slaves of the Sultan, the boys circumcised and turned into the soldiers of his Janissary army (or government drones, slaves in any case). And the girls, well, what do you think? A born Muslim could not, under Islamic law, be a slave. Christians? No problem. The whole Ottoman government from the Grand Vizier on down were enslaved in this way.
Before you call it a "beautiful" faith and fall in love with the muezzin's call to prayer, dig a bit deeper Liam. Educate yourself or at least have a conversation with people in the region whose ancestors lived under the Turkish boot heel for several centuries.
I thought that skit was hilarious.
The look on Warwick’s face alone was worth it.
Fixed it.
What an IDIOT!!
He’s either emotionally twisted, or early dementia has set in. Anytime I’ve heard the call to prayer (movies, news programs or documentaries) it’s sounds like a wounded beast groaning for help, or a man who is seriously challenged when it comes to singing. Beautiful...uh, no. Jewish cantors, Christian gospel singers or choirs,or monks chanting (hell even the mormon tabernacle choir)are miles above the mohammedans call to prayer, as they hide in their mosques preaching hate (and hiding weapons). Shudder to think,and these ba$tards file lawsuits claiming church bells are offensive in Europe and the U.S. Wake up Western Civilization, the barbarians are in your midst and want one of three things from you; conversion, submission or your death. Take your pick or get ready to fight, to the death. They won’t have it any other way.
Converting to Islam is actually kind of a chick thing.
It seems to me that part of it is the surefire attention getting costume.
I haven’t seen a study, but my impression is that the converts in the U.S., are much more likely to wear the uniform than the imported Muslims.
I too heard it when I was in The Kingdom in 1990-1991. Ungodly hours they kept.
Mostly it was taped. However, one time, during a live wailing, the dude succumbed to a coughing fit.
Me and the boys laughed our motha-effing ashes off.
Brings a smile to me it does :)
His comments about Aslan show him to be confused. The sacrificial scene is not consistent with anything Mohammed said.
Oh PLEASE!!! NO REAL Catholic would give up their relionus beliefs because of what some immoral leaders do!!! It;s like giing up your citizenship in America because Clinton got BJ’s in the Oval office! get real.....these people were just looking for an EXCUSE and someone to BLAME.
“...over 4,000 mosques in Istanbul....” well,how many were former Christian churches, especially the Grand Mosque,which was an Orthodox Christian Cathedral. So much for tolerance from the religion of peace.Study the history of islam; you’ll know what it really is in the first ten minutes, the enemy of the West, going on 1,400 hundred years and counting...tick,tick,tick....
Except for isolated pockets, its seems like the candlestick was removed from Western Europe over one hundred years ago. It wasn't the homosexual's infiltrations of the Roman Catholic priesthood (and the slow response of their hierarchy to this infiltration), although that certainly didn't help...
Whether it was Darwinism, or Biblical Higher Criticism, or political correctness ('all roads lead to heaven') or Marxism or Nationalism or Gaiaism -- I can't say. But somehow 'Christianity' became a 'myth' and fairy-tale in Europe. It would make for an interesting postmortem. It should be a warning to us, and also spur us to prayer: that the Lord will have mercy on us, and also that those 'isolated pockets' in Europe can be the launching sites of a new Revival fire.
AMF Hoss.
I will never watch one of his movies again. Stupid moron.
Exactly. That "Call to Prayer" that he finds so moving is a call to slaughter and enslave Christians and Jews and pretty much anyone else who doesn't believe.
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