Comedian Rob Schneider converts to Catholicism, vows to show 'Christ's forgiveness'

Christian Post ^ | 11/13/2023 | Ryan Foley

[SeekAndFind]

A famous comedian has announced his conversion to Catholicism and repentance for what he characterized as a failure to show “Christ’s forgiveness” to those he disagreed with.

Rob Schneider, a “Saturday Night Live” alumnus known for starring in the comedy movies “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo” and “The Animal” as well as his multiple appearances in Adam Sandler movies, announced on X on Oct. 31 that he had converted to Catholicism. Schneider’s post, which coincided with his 60th birthday, began with a declaration that “I am the luckiest man in the world” and featured shout-outs to his wife, Patricia, and their three daughters, Elle, Miranda and Madeleine.

I want thank ALL of the lovely people for their kind birthday wishes for me today on my 60th birthday.
I am the luckiest man in the world.

I have a wonderful partner in life, my beautiful wife Patricia and three lovely daughters; Elle, Miranda and Madeline.

Today, I am reminded of what Dr. M Scott Peck told me over 30 years ago: At 40, you feel like you can conquer the world and there’s a sense that nothing can stop you.

But at 60 you realize the very real fragility of life and temporariness of it all. A humbling knowledge that there is indeed a time limit for all things and that God’s design though perfect, is precious far beyond its brevity.

Today, I am also reminded of the Hindu story that my friend Bill from Lowell Arkansas told me about a man at his funeral. Looking at the man, “Would this man lying here ask for more riches and Gold from the world? Would this man ask to be more famous and well regarded by others? Would he ask to be taller or look more handsome? No. The only thing this man lying here today would ask for was much simpler…more time.”

If you are reading this now, then you too have time! Use it wisely, use it unwisely too! But USE it. Be IN it. Be aware that you are part of ALL of it and that the separateness you sometimes feel is an illusion. Just as your heart beats without being told, you are as integral to the Sun that fires and the planets that circle it as your heart is a part of you.

For the atheists, God loves you too. The mistake you make is to think the universe is a stupid thing that just bumps into things and expands ignorantly and without reason or intelligence.

And that somehow we human beings, with our intelligence is just some kind of ‘freak’ universal accident.

To you I say this, if there is such a thing as kindness, empathy, compassion and love…it is because you found it in other people. And as my dear friend Norm Macdonald once said, “We are part of this universe, indeed a mere fraction of it, so if we have kindness and love, how much more the universe itself.” For if we are capable of love, it is because it is endemic to the universe itself.

To quote Alan Watts, “For we didn’t come ‘in’ to the world, we came ‘out’ of it. We are the universe evolving to the point of consciousness, so that the universe, us, can experience existence and life in all it’s wonder and beauty and glorious exuberance.”

Lastly, as I am a new convert to Catholicism, I offer my apology for my lack of Christ’s forgiveness to my fellow man.

I was so angry at the people who shut down schools and indeed the world and who coerced others to do things against their will which hurt many people deeply. I offer my unconditional forgiveness and amnesty.

For how can I stay mad at the famous singer who would not let others in to his Broadway show unless they had an experiential jab. I will never forget how kind he was to me and my friends when he was the musical guest on SNL. How can I continue to hold a grudge against the actor who shamed people like me but has been such a great example for other actors to never give up and keep fighting for their dreams.

How can I still be mad at the lovely actress that said she could no longer be friends with people like me who didn’t ‘get’ it, knowing how incredibly kind she is with every child she meets.

I am humbled by the example of my mother Pilar and how she was able to forgive the WW2 occupiers of her Philippines who killed both her brothers.

At last it is forgiveness itself that is the gift that we give ourselves because it frees us as The Christ intends for all of us to be free.

For His gift of ultimate and unlimited forgiveness is indeed the gift for all humanity.

May God bless you and your families now and forever.

With all my “You can do it” love, Robbie Schneider


pic.twitter.com/DcNq5dZBwu— Rob Schneider (@RobSchneider) October 31, 2023

“Today I am reminded of what Dr. M Scott Peck told me over 30 years ago: At 40, you feel like you can conquer the world and there’s a sense that nothing can stop you,” he wrote. “But at 60 you realize the very real fragility of life and [the] temporariness of it all. A humbling knowledge that there is indeed a time limit for all things and that God’s design though perfect, is precious far beyond its brevity.”

Toward the end of his post, Schneider told his followers, “I am a new convert to Catholicism.” The comedian indicated that his new faith had changed his perspective on life, as he offered “my apology for my lack of Christ’s forgiveness to my fellow man.”

“I was so angry at the people who shut down the schools and indeed the world and coerced others to do things against their will which hurt many people deeply,” he recalled. “I offer my unconditional forgiveness and amnesty.”

Schneider outlined several examples of people he believes need forgiveness without naming them directly. “How can I stay mad at the famous singers who would not let others into his Broadway show unless they had an experimental jab,” he asked, referring to the COVID-19 shots. “I will never forget how kind he was to me and my friends when he was the musical guest on SNL.”

“How can I continue to hold a grudge against the actor who shamed people like me but has been such a great example for other actors to never give up and keep fighting for their dreams. How can I still be mad at the lovely actress that said she could no longer be friends with people like me who didn’t ‘get’ it, knowing how incredibly kind she is with every child she meets.”

Schneider said he was “humbled” by his Filipino-born mother, Pilar, who “was able to forgive the [World War] 2 occupiers of her Philippines who killed both her brothers.”

He added, “It is forgiveness itself that is the gift that we give ourselves because it frees us as Christ intends for all of us to be free. For His gift of ultimate and unlimited forgiveness is indeed the gift for all humanity.”

The comedian concluded his message by stating, “May God bless you and your families now and forever.” Even before he went public with his new experience as a Catholic, Schneider has emerged as one of the more vocal conservatives in Hollywood in recent years.

Earlier this year, Schneider repeatedly weighed in on LGBT-related issues on his X account. In an April 19 post on X, which was known as Twitter at the time, Schneider reacted to a story about a female athlete “getting spiked in the face by a male competing with the women.”

“This sh– has to stop,” he said at the time. “If the parents, coaches, and ‘women’ athletes ALL REFUSE TO PLAY against these men …IT ALL STOPS!”

Two weeks earlier, on April 4, Schneider shared his thoughts on a video featuring the director of Boston Children’s Hospital’s Gender Multispecialty Service, maintaining that “a child will often know that they are transgender from the moment they have any ability to express themselves.”

The woman pointed to “trying on [an opposite sex] sibling’s clothing” and “playing with ‘opposite gender’ toys” as well as “girls ‘trying to stand to urinate’” as examples of young children identifying themselves as members of the opposite sex born in the wrong body.

“If kids put their arms sideways and run around the room they might be airplanes!” he sarcastically suggested in response to the video. Schneider’s advocacy against body mutilating sex-change surgeries, puberty blockers and opposite-sex hormones on minors dates back to at least last year, when he told Blaze Media host Glenn Beck that the genital mutilating surgeries amount to a “crime against humanity.”

[daniel1212]

And yet Protestants threw out seven entire books of Scripture.

Which, as abundantly shown on FR many times, is simply parroting a prevaricating, ignorant refuted assertion. Study The Canon and the Apocrypha before trying a denial.

[ebb tide]

See how all of the prots have come out from under the rocks to protest one man’s conversion to Catholicism.

It’s no different than Satan’s anger that another soul that has been yanked from his evil grasp.

They don’t even care what Schneider has converted from. They just care that he converted to the One, True Church.

[ealgeone]

As some seem to object to your very well documented website, I offer this.

44Now He said to them, “These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”

Luke 24:44 NASB 95

*****

Those who understand what Jesus is saying will understand He just cited the Jewish OT which did not contain the Apocrypha. We can always learn something when we read the Bible.

For those interested more here:

https://www.blueletterbible.org/faq/don_stewart/don_stewart_395.cfm

[moonhawk]

FR is not what I consider a source of De Fide doctrine.

[ealgeone]

FR is not what I consider a source of De Fide doctrine.

Not aware of anyone claiming it was.

[daniel1212]

I see you’re pimping your own website again. It’s quite tiresome.

Oh yes,just look at all money ($0) that it requests and obtains, plus all (0) sign up/subscribe requests and (0) cookies. And all the hits (Average Daily Traffic Page Views 22.9).

No wonder I link to it!

Actually, if I knew of better documentation for what I link to it for (and which I can edit, add to) then I would(and often do for such) provide links to it.

Meaning that your pitiful recourse to another spitwad is exposed for what it is.

[metmom]

I think it's amazing (amazingly sad, that is), that you think yourself competent to judge another person's salvation based only off the datapoint that he's a Catholic. So all Catholics are "lost," in your view?

And the irony of you, a Catholic, complaining about that is not lost on anyone but Catholics.

Catholics themselves think they are competent to another's salvation based on the fact that they are NOT Catholic.

The hypocrisy of your comment is staggering.

[daniel1212]

Those who understand what Jesus is saying will understand He just cited the Jewish OT which did not contain the Apocrypha.

You mean "in all the Scriptures" (Lk. 24:27) even though some claim there was no established authoritative body of wholly God-inspired writings yet. Which Catholicism says we need their magisterium for.

And as if even some RC scholarly sources do not affirm the Prot. canon as being that of the Jews.

And as if Luther set the canon for Prots. And as if that was even one of the charges in his bull of excommunication. And as if his personal opinion on the canon was without substantial RC scholarly support.

And as if the Deutercanocal books were not translated by Luther and printed in Prot bibles for hundreds of years.

Then there is the appeal to the LXX, as if we even had a 1st c. copy of any, and as if they were as large as the 4th c. editions, and as if they even were uniform, and perfectly corresponded to the canon of Rome.

[ebb tide]

Actually, if I knew of better documentation for what I link to...

So there is no better source than you.

I get it. It's called Pride.

[moonhawk]

I was referring to your statement that my contention had been refuted here on FR many times. Or words to that effect.

Anyway, when were the Keys to the Kingdom handed over to those doing the refuting? I don’t recall Peter or his successors doing so.

[daniel1212]

FR is not what I consider a source of De Fide doctrine.

And your statement must also apply to what you and your comrades post. however, FR is and can be a source of Truth to the degree that it is or can be substantiated by reputable sources, which for you, can extend beyond the limited amount of teachings considered to be infallibly true, having been solemnly defined by the Church's magisterium or have been taught by her ordinary universal teaching authority as binding on the consciences of all the faithful. If you want to restrict veracity to them (as judged by you) then you will die of poverty in extended debate.

For such are limited, and far from comprehensive, and thus other sources are needful, from encyclicals to encyclopedias to your own notes in your own official Bible as well as to editions of your canon law and Catechisms, which are not infallible documents, and can be changed (and have), with the latter only presenting teaching of your Church "without elevating the doctrinal status of those teachings beyond what they otherwise have" as Ratzinger said in the Introduction to the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

And yet there is no infallible list of which magisterial level (3, or 4?) each teaching of your Church belongs to, and thus which level of submission is required. And which, and their meanings see debate, as is well-evidenced here with most vocal FR RCs here in their dissents, and reproofs of some encyclicals, encyclopedias and own notes in your own official Bible(and the NABRE translation itself) as well as editions of your canon law and Catechisms.

What is your own position on the veracity of all the above? And on changes in the CCC over the years? And on the veracity and authority of Vatican Two? And on submission to your present pope?

As for my page on the canon, these are substantiated from Catholic as well as other sources.

[daniel1212]

Actually, if I knew of better documentation for what I link to...

So there is no better source than you. I get it. It's called Pride.

Which is just another desperate ad hominem spitwad (your last one(s) having failed), since not knowing of a better documentation for what I link to for simply does not equate to pride, and my site does not even provide my name of FR handle, but is an honest reply, while in fact the whole site needs work to bring it up to mobile device viewing standards, and fix typos.

Thus as before, your recourse to ad hominem only impugns you, and as the RM mod advised,

If the other guy is throwing spitwads at you on an “open” thread it probably means he has run out of ammunition. Take it as a backhanded compliment. You won, walk away.

May God grant you “repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.” (2 Timothy 2:25)

[daniel1212]

I was referring to your statement that my contention had been refuted here on FR many times. Or words to that effect.

Well, the fact is that they have. As is the premise of the novel and unscriptural premise of ensured perpetual magisterial veracity (EPMV) of office, under which Rome asserts she is and will be infallible whenever she speaks in accordance with her infallibly defined (scope and subject-based) formula, which renders her declaration that she is infallible, to be infallible, as well as all else she accordingly declares. And also presumes protection from at least salvific error in non-infallible magisterial teaching on faith and morals.

Anyway, when were the Keys to the Kingdom handed over to those doing the refuting? I don’t recall Peter or his successors doing so.

Nor to you, or to a church whose distinctive Catholic teachings are not manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, in particular Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the gospels).

Which never taught that Peter was the "rock" of Mt. 16:18 upon which the church is built, interpreting Mt. 16:18, rather than upon the rock of the faith confessed by Peter, thus Christ Himself.

For in contrast to Peter (“petros”), that the LORD Jesus is the Rock (“petra”) or "stone" (“lithos,” and which denotes a large rock in Mk. 16:4) upon which the church is built is one of the most abundantly confirmed doctrines in the Bible (petra: Rm. 9:33; 1Cor. 10:4; 1Pet. 2:8; cf. Lk. 6:48; 1Cor. 3:11; lithos: Mat. 21:42; Mk.12:10-11; Lk. 20:17-18; Act. 4:11; Rm. 9:33; Eph. 2:20; cf. Dt. 32:4, Is. 28:16) including by Peter himself. (1Pt. 2:4-8) Rome's current catechism attempts to have Peter himself as the rock as well, but also affirms: “On the rock of this faith confessed by St Peter, Christ build his Church,” (pt. 1, sec. 2, cp. 2, para. 424) which understanding some of the so-called “church fathers” concur with.)

And it is by the essential faith which Peter expressed that church overcomes: "Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?" (1Jn, 5:5; cf (1Jn. 2:13,14,25)

And linguistical debates about the significance of the difference between the Greek (the language the Holy Spirit chose to express the New Testament revelation in) words “Petros” (Peter, or stone in Jn. 1:42) and “petra” (rock) in Mt. 16:18, and what the LORD might have said in Aramaic, never end:

David Garland (“Reading Matthew”, New York: Crossroad Publishing, 1995) contending that there is a very good possibility that the possible “underlying Aramaic” for the “petros/petra” wordplay (possibly “kepha/kepha” in the unknown Aramaic) may well have been “kepha/tnra” – which then separates the Greek “petros/petra” by more than just gender issues; it changes the whole meaning of the wordplay. And this “changed wordplay” greatly advances the (already likely) scenario that Peter is not “the rock” of that verse.Following on what Garland pointed out, Everett Ferguson, in his “The Church of Christ: A Biblical Ecclesiology for Today” (Grand Rapids/Cambridge: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996), also affirms that in the Syriac language, which is a later form of Aramaic, does indeed make the “kepha/tnra” distinction in existing Syriac translations of the Gospel of Matthew:... More, by the grace of God.

[ealgeone]

And one would think there’d be an outcry from Roman Catholics on how their pope is being disparaged on a daily basis by one of their own. Yet, what do we hear: crickets.

[Elsie]

A famous comedian has announced his conversion to Catholicism....

From WHAT?

[Elsie]

Yeah!
IMWTK!

[Elsie]

There are millions of Catholics that are going to be in heaven.

As are Protestants.

The OTHER guys in the game?

We’ll see.

[Elsie]

Amen!