{"id":32938,"date":"2018-03-28T15:07:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T19:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32938"},"modified":"2018-03-28T15:07:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T19:07:26","slug":"every-saint-has-a-past-and-every-sinner-has-a-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32938","title":{"rendered":"Every Saint Has A Past And Every Sinner Has A Future"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Alice<\/a>

Alice Cooper, American rock singer. Taken at the 2007 Scream Awards (Photo credit: Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

All of us have some tendency to judge a person based on what we think we know about them and predict their future based on that judgement. However, every now and then something comes along that shows us how limited and incorrect our judgement can be.<\/p>\n

Yesterday an article was posted at The Daily Wire<\/a> that convinces me that sometimes God laughs at all of our conclusions about other people.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

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In an interview with the New York Daily News<\/a>‘ Confidential<\/a> published Sunday, legendary rocker Alice Cooper<\/a> said his personal relationship with Jesus Christ<\/a> saved him from going the way of Jim Morrison<\/a> and Jimi Hendrix<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cooper gave the interview a week ahead of the debut of NBC’s<\/a> live version of “Jesus Christ Superstar,” starring John Legend and featuring Cooper as King Herod, the role he played back in 1996 when he recorded what writer Andrew Lloyd Webber<\/a> called the “definitive<\/a>” version of “Herod’s Song.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0While Cooper did talk some with Confidential about the new production, what earned the headline was his account of his journey out of a self-destructive rock and roll lifestyle 37 years ago, for which the now 70-year-old rocker credits Christianity<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Everything that could go wrong was shutting down inside of me,” he said. “I was drinking with Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix and trying to keep up with Keith Moon<\/a> and they all died at 27.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thirty-seven years ago, one of his binges landed him in a hospital, where a doctor diagnosed him as a “classic alcoholic.” Cooper told Confidential his desire to drink ended that day as he faced the reality that he must put the bottle down or die. His return to his Christian roots is what prevented him from falling back into his unsustainable lifestyle.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“My father was a pastor, my grandfather was an evangelist. I grew up in the church, went as far away as I could from it \u2014 almost died \u2014 and then came back to the church,” he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“There\u2019s nothing in Christianity that says I can\u2019t be a rock star,” he said. “People have a very warped view of Christianity. They think it\u2019s all very precise and we never do wrong and we\u2019re praying all day and we\u2019re right-wing. It has nothing to do with that. It has to do with a one-on-one relationship with Jesus Christ.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Part of the reason he was able to keep himself on the straight and narrow was his wife, whom he married in 1976 and who is also a Christian, and the couple’s commitment to reading the Bible and staying connected in their church. Cooper told the outlet that he has never been unfaithful to his wife, performs a daily Bible study, and regularly attends church on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wow. Just wow.<\/p>\n

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