In an interview with Men’s Health later in 2022, Pratt directly addressed the rumors that he attends Hillsong. “I never went to Hillsong,” he said. “I’ve never actually been to Hillsong. I don’t know anyone from that church.”
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Regarding why he did not clarify that earlier, the actor said, “I’m gonna, like, throw a church under the bus?” Pratt reportedly attends Zoe Church lead by Pastor Chad Veach, as well as attending a Catholic church with his wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger.
Brown asked Pratt how he handles “opinions or narratives” that are false. “I kind of rely on this biblical wisdom: Proverbs 26:20,” Pratt replied. That verse says, “Without wood a fire goes out; without a gossip a quarrel dies down.”
“So I give it time,” Pratt said. “I see something about myself that’s not true, and…I understand why it’s out there, because this algorithm-driven passive entertainment is really meant to just capture our attention.”
“Nothing captures our attention more than being morally righteous where we are not the person that we’re judging,” he explained. “You know, it’s very easy to have a very strong moral opinion about somebody else.”
“And you can be presented with a narrative that puts you into that posture that makes you a very lucrative target for these big businesses to kind of mine your attention and keep you focused,” said Pratt.
Pratt referred to “judging things from a point of view of righteousness” as “America’s pastime.”
When the actor sees something in the news about himself that is false, he waits for 36 hours. “That’s kind of the new news cycle,” Pratt said. “And then if it doesn’t go away, I give it another 36 hours. And I can do that 36 times. And if it’s still not gone away, it’s only been six weeks. And then usually things go away by six weeks.”
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If the controversy has not died down by that point, Pratt might address it. “But otherwise, you have to kind of divorce yourself from it” and keep in mind the wisdom from Proverbs. “You can’t really put out fire with gasoline, you know?” Pratt observed.
