In his explanation to Maher of his connections to Catholicism, Pratt said, “I go to a Catholic church—my wife is Catholic—but I would probably consider myself to be more Christian than Catholic. I don’t know that I’m necessarily like one or the other.”
“Anyone who believes in Christ is a Christian, right?” Maher asked.
“Right,” said Pratt. “But, like, I wasn’t confirmed in the Catholic Church…I go to a Catholic church. I love it all. I’m a follower of, you know, Jesus.”
“I mean, I made a movie about this, but it was never mean-spirited,” said Maher, alluding to his film “Religulous.” “I was just questioning and having fun with it.” He said everyone he interviewed had a positive reaction about the experience, although “maybe after the movie came out, there was some ruffled feathers.”
“I’m preaching the gospel of ‘I don’t know.’ I don’t know either. You know, I just don’t, I don’t sign on to these things, and part of it is because, you know, they did traumatize me,” Maher said. “I mean, you can believe in Jesus as a god. I don’t, but you can and still be critical of his minions on earth and the things they’ve done.”
“Sure,” Pratt agreed.
“And I’m not getting into even the worst things they do, which is way worse than—I mean, I was never molested or anything,” said Maher.
“I hear you,” Pratt said. “Listen, mankind has been messing this up since the dawn of time because men are—mankind is broken.”
