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Denzel Washington gets baptized and becomes a minister after saying religion is ‘not fashionable’ in Hollywood
Page Six ^ | 12/22/2024 | Tamantha Ryan

Posted on 12/22/2024 7:04:28 PM PST by vespa300

Denzel Washington has added a new role to his lengthy resume.

On Saturday, the “Gladiator II” actor was baptized at the Kelly Temple in New York City and received his minister’s license.

During the baptism, Washington, 69, spoke to the congregation about his faith before he was immersed in water.

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To: vespa300

So he just did a man-man makeout scene for Gladiator. It didn’t make it into the final edition, but, why?


41 posted on 12/23/2024 2:08:07 AM PST by lurk (u)
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To: stylecouncilor

Ping


42 posted on 12/23/2024 2:27:56 AM PST by windcliff
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To: vespa300

None of the ‘Hey Yogi’ people have posted their hate yet.
They are too embarrassed to do that on a religious thread.


43 posted on 12/23/2024 3:03:03 AM PST by Doctor Congo
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To: lee martell

“The Catholic way is to be sprinkled with Holy Water by your neighborhood pastor.”

That’s cute and all, but the Scriptural way is immersion. The Bible says that Jesus “came up out of the water” after his baptism.

The Greek word baptizo literally means “to immerse, dip, submerge, or plunge”. (I didn’t take Greek in seminary, but my fiance did and I helped him study.)


44 posted on 12/23/2024 3:18:10 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: pops88

I’m with you on that. After 75 years of being a Baptist, we started attending a PCA church (Presbyterian Church of America) last spring. In most ways, PCA is more conservative than the Baptist churches in our area — eastern TN which is SUPPOSED to be the “buckle of the Bible Belt and Baptist country.

My issue is their take on infant baptism, and their what it signifies. If we had children, we wouldn’t be going there.


45 posted on 12/23/2024 3:23:32 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

“He always struck me as Mensch.”

Agree. There always was something about him that made you think he was a good person. I like his acting, and he’s very handsome!


46 posted on 12/23/2024 3:25:46 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: vespa300

He was perfect in his role in “The Book of Eli”, my favorite
Denzel Washington movie.


47 posted on 12/23/2024 3:31:30 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Mozzafiato
Trying to get ahead of the Diddy indictments

Why would you say something so stupid?

48 posted on 12/23/2024 3:41:38 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: UnBubba

Amen Brother. Jesus Christ, fully God, fully man. That holy thing, undefiled, and he gives me his righteousness free if I hunger for it. We have to be perfect to get to heaven. To get to heaven, we could not have ever committed a single sin not even in thought.

Who has that? Nobody. Only he had it and he imputes that perfection to me. And the cross makes it all legal. Love and Justice kissed at the cross. He can now take the sinner to heaven legally for without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin. What a God! Jesus Christ......amen.


49 posted on 12/23/2024 4:44:04 AM PST by vespa300
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To: bray

I believe in the latter rain, yes. God is going to save many even in Hollywood because he is coming soon. The signs are there. The gospel is going around the world. Sadly, most will reject it and accept a false gospel that looks real. But God will save those who thirst. Amen.......it’s happening.


50 posted on 12/23/2024 4:47:36 AM PST by vespa300
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To: Fungi

What has Denzel done, that you can share that would deem him to be like the race hustler, con artist Sharpton?


51 posted on 12/23/2024 5:19:52 AM PST by Mastador1
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To: vespa300

Such a lovely man. My kid and I waited outside in the cold for him to come out of his dressing trailer when he was in our city and our own neighborhood filming a movie. It was late on a school night, but it seemed important to me. He came out and my son immediately approached him with the pad and paper we had brought with us, to ask for an autograph.

Three young black kids happened to be passing by at that moment, and when they saw who it was, they jumped for joy and yelled, “Den-ZEL! Den-ZEL!” He seemed to recognize that we had waited for him for some time, but they had arrived by happenstance; so he spoke to me and my son kindly and finished the autograph before turning to the other kids, who were too young to be out on the streets unaccompanied long after dark. He chatted with each of them, asking why they were out at night and whether their mothers knew where they were, while they leapt around in excitement. After some moments he told them he had to go, he was due on the movie set. As they started to run off, he called after them, “Stay in school, now!”

I was so impressed by him. And that was 30+ years ago.


52 posted on 12/23/2024 5:38:00 AM PST by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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To: Karliner

Our priests go to Brookline, Mass. (https://www.hchc.edu/holy-cross/ )
to study before being ordained


53 posted on 12/23/2024 5:46:59 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: vespa300

Baptized and immediately becomes a minister.


54 posted on 12/23/2024 5:49:31 AM PST by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: All

I bet he can give a really good sermon


55 posted on 12/23/2024 6:00:26 AM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Karliner

You can get baptized again when if you rededicate your life to Christ


56 posted on 12/23/2024 6:05:46 AM PST by wardaddy ( .If the GOPe didn't go wobbly slightest incoming flak we'd always win in)
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To: lee martell

“The Catholic way is to be sprinkled with Holy Water by your neighborhood pastor.”

Literally no Catholic pastor does that. Affusion - pouring of water onto the person’s head - is the most common way in the Western Catholic Church. Immersion is still the most common way in Eastern Catholic Churches.


57 posted on 12/23/2024 6:41:26 AM PST by vladimir998 ( Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: wardaddy

Maybe that is what he’s done? Proud he became a minister.


58 posted on 12/23/2024 7:42:47 AM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: escapefromboston

https://www.youtube.com/@inspirejourney70/featured

Denzel and others, words of inspiration.


59 posted on 12/23/2024 7:56:25 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: vespa300

Kelly Temple is a Pentacostal non-denomominational church.

https://www.kellytemplecogic.org/


60 posted on 12/23/2024 8:05:12 AM PST by Wuli
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