Justin Bieber famously got his start in the music industry at the age of thirteen after being discovered on YouTube. Several multi-platinum R&B records later, he is now twenty-one, and frequently mocked on Late Night for his bad boy antics, which include: vandalism, an arrest for drag racing his Ferrari while intoxicated, and carrying a pet monkey with him wherever he goes. In a recent interview with Complex magazine, the Biebs attempts to reinvent himself as a self-aware recording artist and emerging adult.
Portions of the interview in which Bieber talks about his Evangelical Christian faith have gone viral. In Complex, Bieber says that he loves Jesus and wants to be like him, and that Christians have left “a bad taste in people’s mouths” by being “overly pushy with the subject, overly churchy and religious.” At this point, I think everyone is tracking. He then says, “It doesn’t make you a Christian just by going to church.”
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