Megan Fox Speaks in Tongues

deacon blues · #1 01-24-2013, 04:18 AM

Interesting

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By Christine Thomasos , Christian Post Reporter
January 15, 2013|2:20 pm

Megan Fox, 26-year-old actress, may be known for her roles in movies like "Transformers" but the new mother was raised in church and recently spoke about her battle with fame, and speaking in tongues at her current place of worship.

Fox will appear as the cover girl in the February issue of Esquire magazine, where she opens up about speaking in tongues, similar to the biblical account described in Acts 2:1-4. The actress revealed that she first began speaking in tongues at the age of eight, growing up in a Pentecostal church in Tennessee.

Fox, the wife of actor Brian Austin Green who recently gave birth to a son last September, said she is making church a priority these days. In the Esquire feature story, she described what it feels like to speak in tongues.

"It feels like a lot of energy coming through the top of your head – I'm going to sound like such a lunatic – and then your whole body is filled with this electric current. And you just start speaking, but you're not thinking because you have no idea what you're saying. Words are coming out of your mouth, and you can't control it," the actress explained to the publication. "The idea is that it's a language that only God understands. It's the language that's spoken in heaven. It's called 'getting the Holy Ghost.'"

While the actress opened up to Esquire about healing taking place in her church where she's seen "crazy things happen."

"I have seen magical, crazy things happen. I've seen people be healed. Even now, in the church I go to, during Praise and Worship I could feel that I was maybe getting ready to speak in tongues, and I'd have to shut it off because I don't know what that church would do if I started screaming out in tongues in the back," Fox admitted.

While Fox is an avid church attendee, she is known to the world as an actress who rose to fame after appearing in the 2007 blockbuster film "Transformers." Still, the actress is not comfortable with being a celebrity.

"I don't think people understand. They all think we should shut the (expletive) up and stop complaining because you live in a big house or you drive a Bentley," Fox told Esquire. "So your life must be so great. What people don't realize is that fame, whatever your worst experience in high school, when you were being bullied by those ten kids in high school, fame is that, but on a global scale, where you're being bullied by millions of people constantly."

While some have viewed Fox as a sex symbol, the actress does not want that role to define who she is.

"I felt powerless in that image. I didn't feel powerful. It ate every other part of my personality, not for me but for how people saw me, because there was nothing else to see or know," Fox told the men's magazine. "That devalued me. Because I wasn't anything I was an image. I was a picture. I was a pose."

While Fox once admired women who were considered sex symbols like Marilyn Monroe, she decided to remove the tattoo of the late actress and model who rose to fame in the 1950s and 1960s.

"I started reading about her and realized that her life was incredibly difficult. It's like when you visualize something for your future. I didn't want to visualize something so negative," Fox told Esquire. "She wasn't powerful at the time. She was sort of like Lindsay. She was an actress who wasn't reliable, who almost wasn't insurable.... She had all the potential in the world, and it was squandered. I'm not interested in following in those footsteps."

As much as Fox seems to detest fame, it is no wonder that she recently quit Twitter after only days of joining the social networking website.

"I thought that 2013 might be the year that I finally blossomed into a social networking butterfly, but as it turns out, I still hate it," the actress told thousands of fans before deactivating her Twitter account.

Fox will appear on the Esquire magazine cover that will hit newsstands on Jan 22.

deacon blues · #2 01-24-2013, 04:28 AM

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The Transformers star and new mom bares almost all in lacy lingerie on the cover of the latest Esquire magazine, and inside she opens up about her curious childhood as a member of a religious group that taught her to speak in tongues.

“The energy is so intense in the room that you feel like anything can happen,” said Fox referring to her surreal experiences growing up at a Pentecostal church in Tennessee. “They’re going to hate that I compare it to this, but have you ever watched footage of a Santeria gathering or someone doing voodoo? You know how palpable the energy is? Whatever’s going on there, it’s for real.”

The brunette bombshell, who has an obsession with the unusual went on to reveal, “It feels like a lot of energy coming through the top of your head — I’m going to sound like such a lunatic — and then your whole body is filled with this electric current.

“And you just start speaking, but you’re not thinking because you have no idea what you’re saying. Words are coming out of your mouth, and you can’t control it. The idea is that it’s a language that only God understands.

“It’s the language that’s spoken in heaven. It’s called ‘getting the Holy Ghost,” explained Megan, who gave birth to son Noah on September 7, but admitted that the experience was far from miraculous!

RandyWayne · #3 01-24-2013, 07:16 AM

I've never been a "fan" per say of Megan Fox (maybe because I just didn't care for any of the Transformers movies), but everything I've read about her over the past couple of years tells me she really has her head on straight and truly does seem bothered when people are more interested in her appearance (she IS a brunette bombshell by the way).

deacon blues · #4 01-24-2013, 07:34 AM

What do you think about her comparing speaking in tongues to vodoo?

RandyWayne · #5 01-24-2013, 07:39 AM

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Originally Posted by deacon blues

What do you think about her comparing speaking in tongues to vodoo?

I may have read between the lines too much but I have had similar thoughts when comparing certain worship styles found in apostolic church's to certain behaviors found in religions -most often practiced in the Caribbean. Certainly there is a lot of the same psychology involved.

As far as flat out comparing some tongues to voodoo, I just can't get myself to say that as I feel it is treading on rather dangerous territory to do so. She is young though.

deacon blues · #6 01-24-2013, 08:18 AM

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Originally Posted by RandyWayne

I may have read between the lines too much but I have had similar thoughts when comparing certain worship styles found in apostolic church's to certain behaviors found in religions -most often practiced in the Caribbean. Certainly there is a lot of the same psychology involved.

As far as flat out comparing some tongues to voodoo, I just can't get myself to say that as I feel it is treading on rather dangerous territory to do so. She is young though.

Reading those articles inspired me to write the "Demystifying Gifts of the Spirit" thread. It's a subject I have a lot of interest in. I believe in these things but I have also seen a lot that disturbs me and doesn't seem right. And a lot of the people I deal with that seem to almost want to force that kind of atmosphere at church seem to lack spiritual maturity in many other areas. It's like they want to get that emotional high and they are addicted to it. Or they feel, like they haven't been with God without it. I think it marginalizes Jesus and church becomes a free for all rather than something that honors Him and keeps Him at the center if why we worship.