Did Actor Shia LaBeouf Become a Christian?

In October, Shia LaBeouf shocked some people with some big news: he converted from Judaism to Christianity while filming Fury.

The guy who plagiarized another author’s play and then shamelessly plagiarized his tweeted apologies for plagiarizing – the guy who got arrested for disrupting a live performance and openly admitted he was an alcoholic – the guy who has made the news for more negative or just plain bizarre things than he has for good reasons – yeah, that guy became a Christian.

He’s still definitely Shia, but he says something major has changed. Here’s how he put it:

I found God doing Fury. I became a Christian man, and not in a f***ing bulls**t way — in a very real way …I could have just said the prayers that were on the page. But it was a real thing that really saved me. And you can’t identify unless you’re really going through it. It’s a full-blown exchange of heart, a surrender of control.

He says he became a Christian man during the movie Fury by spending time with Brad Pitt and director David Ayer. These two men helped him come to faith in different ways – a man raised Christian but who rejected it, and one who is still a Christian in Hollywood.

Shia has always been Catherine’s Hollywood crush. She says she’s always had faith in him. And you could definitely tell he was searching for meaning. Just a couple years ago, he said, “I have no idea where this insecurity comes from, but it’s a God-sized hole. If I knew, I’d fill it, and I’d be on my way.”

I love Shia’s story because he breaks the stereotype people sometimes have about Christians.  Um…  like this one.

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