As if listening to the courageous testimonies of Russell Brand’s victims in court wasn’t distressing enough, there was something else about this trial that sickened me to my soul.
As a lifelong, practising Christian, I found it utterly repugnant to watch the self-styled Messiah use God as his defence, parading his supposed new faith as if proof of his goodness and innocence.
Even as he stood in the dock awaiting sentencing, Brand made the sign of the cross across his chest.
Now that the trial is over, we have a right to ask the question: was his conversion to Christianity in 2024 –
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