CELEBRITIES RUINED BY RELIGION

Tom Cruise

John Travolta

Kirstie Alley

Religion or mental illness?

MJ wasn't ruined by religion, he was ruined by an abusive money grubbing father, a weak mother, mental illness, and his own paedophilia.

Kirk Cameron

Janine Turner

Adam Baldwin (presuming his conservatism is religion-based)

Pretty sure the Osmomds were a Mormon family before they became a famous family. I don't think religion ruined them. Marie just happens to have some mental health issues.

Naomi Judd

Natalie Cole

Clifton Davis

Vanity

Patricia Heaton

Arnold Swarteneger (He quoted his faith once or twice as Cal. Gov.)

Gloria Gaynor

Ricky Skaggs

Randy Travis

Austin Peck (His preaching on the DOOL set annoyed many & contributed to his departure)

Jimmy Walker

Fred "Rerun" Barry

Jennifer O'Neil

Little Richard

Kim Fields

Lisa Whelchel

Nancy McKeon

Kevin Sorbo

Eduardo Verastegui

Star Jones

Justine Bateman

Mel Gibson

Melissa Reeves

Scott Reeves

Marilyn McCoo

Willie Ames

Adam Rich

Tiffany

Patti Labelle

Dack Rambo

Lulu Roman

Trace Adkins

Barbara Mandrell & her 2 sisters

Buddy Ebsen

Sheila Walsh

Susan Howard

Carol Lawrence

Dean Jones

Pebbles

Donny Osmond

Donna Summer

John Schnider

Wayne Newton

Chuck Woolery

Donna Douglas

Susan Richardson

Cindy Williams

John Ratzenberger

Orson Bean

Jamie Farr

Neal McDonough

Lee Meriwether

Crystal Bernard

Joyce Dewitt

Erin Moran

Shirley Jones & Hubby

Craig T. Nelson

Dawnn Lewis

Grace Lee Whitney

Meadowlark Lemon

Tim Conway

Alice Cooper

Marcy Walker

Isn't Tim Tebow's religion part of his charm?

Every country music celebrity.

T O M CR U I S E

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Reminds me of Liberace in "The Loved One"

How did i make this list? I was fighting for gay rights in 1978 with Gena Rowlands and Jane Alexander since before most of you lil knuckleheads were born.

Barret Oliver

[quote]Pebbles

Really? I guess she didn't have a gay old time being Bamm-Bamm's beard all those years.

[quote]Marie just happens to have some mental health issues.

They just say that because she's the only one who isn't a homophobe.

I wouldn't really say I was "ruined."

Mickey Rooney got fairly chummy with those Hollywood Christian types in his later years.

Jean Harlow

Vanity was ruined by crack , and abusiive music industry.

Cat Stevens

Janet Jackson

Maureen McCormick

Madonna

Juliette Lewis

Cat motherfucking Stevens

Did R7 just blurt out a bunch of random names. Shirley Jones and Marty Ingels weren't religious. Shirley was/is an old school republican, but not religious. Adam Rich? Tiffany? Lee Meriwether? Cindy Williams?

Kim Fields is a religious nut

Todd Bridges

Melissa Joan Hart

Yoo-hoo! Over here, queers. God loves you, but me, I'm not fond of legal protections for minorities.

Madonna is religious?? Which part?

Victoria Jackson

Vanity

Tom Cruise

Isaac Hayes

Laura Prepon

Danny Masterson

Mel Gibson

Nancy Cartwright

Cat Stevens

Dave Chappelle

Tyler Perry

Katt Williams

[quote]he was ruined by an abusive money grubbing father

Who was a devout Jehovah's witness.

Jane Russell

Agnes Moorehead

Y'all just posting people that you find annoying because you feel their art/music/otherwise work was influenced by religious views and you don't like it.

"Ruined by religion" means predatory destruction. I'd say River Phoenix's parents dragging their kids into the "Children of God" cult did real damage.

I'm a Gay icon, the ORIGINAL drag queen, how the hell did I make this list?

Who are half the people on r7's list? Wtf

Tiffany Brissette

Justin Bieber, well he was pretty well ruined before but now I notice he always thanks God at every awards show.

I taught Lisa Whelchel how to be more Gay Friendly.

But which "God," r38?

I taught Kim Fields how to shave her legs, and how to reach womanhood, before Queen Latifah got to her.....

Donna Summer

Josh Henderson

Stephen Baldwin

I didn't know Adam Baldwin (unrelated) was religious too.

Chilli from TLC. She keeps on posting Scriptures on her twitter. And she has said some pretty homophobic things on her twitter as well. ......Where in the scriptures does it say 'thou shall not mess with married men and spread your pussy like it's jiffy peanut butter?'

Jen Lilley from "Days Of Our Loves" - Jesus Freak

R44 It sounds like bad metaphors will take her down not religion.

I see the issue R44. To clarify: The scripture is "spread yo' pussy" not "spread your pussy"

Chris Pratt

R4

He seems fine.

And you get bet your pansy asses they are ALL going to Heaven. The others---not so much.

Whitney

One could say that people like Mel Gibson, Mel Jackson, et al. were ruined by mental health issues rather than by religion, but some of us think that anyone who's aggressively religious has mental health issues to some degree.

I have another one for the list, though he's a minor entry: Jim Caviezel.

The Pope. He had that whole "barely legal" thing wrapped up. What happened?

hoooouhhhhhhhh

R52 What was "ruined" about Jim Caviezel?

The KKK were religious, i guess they are all in Heaven too right?

[quote]What was "ruined" about Jim Caviezel?

After his first big success in THE THIN RED LINE, he became very vocal about how religious he was, what kinds of roles he would and wouldn't play, how he wouldn't do any kind of heavy love/sex scene because of his religion, etc. "Ruined" is too strong a word, but I think all of that had a negative impact on his career, given that he was gorgeous and a decent actor.

Agnes Moorehead? Really? Details, please.

Yes how bizarre that someone would want to live their life in a moral way and be at grace with the God of their choice. Jim Caveizal has had a perfectly fine career he is not an amazing actor with incredible charisma. I think he has done pretty well for himself. Practicing Catholic and all. He also happens to be a nice guy . Married forever and adopted his children.

Jennifer Garner

Tom Cruise is the poster child on this issue.

God and religion are 2 separate things. What you do in your own time is your business but i don't like it when so many religious fanatics use their Bible to spread hatred and bigotry towards people who are different than they are, especially when a lot of them are hypocrites and are living more dirty than the people that they are condemning. GOD IS LOVE.

I eat shit.

Anita Bryant

Loretta Young

Pat Boone

Tom Landry

Cissy Houston

That fat wannabe singer who was on the last season of American Idol.

Erika Christensen is another celeb ruined by Scienotology.

everyone except Pope Francis. he seems weirdly immune to the crazy.

[quote]I didn't know Adam Baldwin (unrelated) was religious too.

I was fan of his up until that incident where he went into a homophobic rage on twitter.

oh please, R69, most of datalounge is homophobic rages. forgive and forget, bitch.

It's good to see that DL didn't put me on this list.

Did anyone say Chris Pratt?

Wasn't Chris Pratt a stoner in Maui and screwing girls in his van?

Beck.

Justin Beiber - those Hillsong nut jobs take 10% of their members income. Imagine what hell they are doing with Justin's millions, nothing good i'm sure.

R73: There's nothing in the Bible against weed.

Whitney Houston--a lesbian raised by a fanatically religious mother who pressured her to give up the love of her life, which drove her into a self-destructive spiral filled with drug addiction and an abusive husband. All in the name of money and God's supposed will.

Didn't Cissy say she would rather have Whitney dead than come out as gay? That's how deeply gone this woman was. So consumed and brainwashed by religion she'd give up her own flesh and blood daughter (with a voice that sounded like it was a gift from God), to appease some fairytale made up by people thousands of years ago.

Unfortunately, poor Whitney just wasn't that bright and ended up internalizing all that poison. And it destroyed her, literally--and in the end probably destroyed her daughter too.

What tragic irony that Whitney and her daughter are dead, but that evil woman, Cissy, continues to live, feeding off all that money her bled from her own daughter. I honestly don't know how she can sleep at night.

Everyone from this commercial:

Religion sure ruined that fella named Jesus.

R76 it's sad

Talk about irony...Oprah (a closeted lesbian herself) asking Cissy about her closeted lesbian daughter.

What a fucked up world we live in. We're all taught to hate ourselves in one way or another.

Guess we can officially add Prince to this thread.

Prince was listed in the original post.