Logan Paul tells Bryce Crawford he ‘mocked God’ before ‘darkest time’ in his life
Popular social media influencer Logan Paul told Christian podcaster and street evangelist Bryce Crawford that the darkest time he has ever faced in his life was shortly after he publicly disrespected God.
In a recent episode of his "IMPAULSIVE" podcast, Paul, 31, told the 22-year-old Jesus in the Street founder that he felt “the wrath of God” shortly after he “mocked God.” While he didn’t explicitly name the infamous episode, Paul was referring to episode 356 of his podcast in 2022, when he aggressively mocked and belittled the Christian faith of his then-co-host, George Janko. In the episode, Paul suggested that Janko should see a therapist because he didn’t think “Jesus is evolving you in a way that you could be [better].”
“It was pretty dark. Basically, actually, on this podcast … I felt like I had disrespected God. I had mocked God,” Paul told Crawford.
“I shortly thereafter felt the wrath of God. It was crazy. It was almost instantaneous. And at the time I was just like, why is all this happening right now? How is this possible? It was dark. It was the darkest time of my life,” he said.
A month after the explosive episode that drew significant backlash, Paul apologized and shared how he felt God responded to his comments to Janko.
“I’m not going to even say what I said, and I’ll tell you why. The following three weeks have been the hardest period of my f------ life. Buddy, God kicked me in the d--- as hard as He fucking could. As soon as it started happening, I went There’s no way,” Paul said in 2023.
He then shared details on how he felt God had humbled him for the disrespect.
“We started off in Qatar. I got violent food poisoning. I got a $20,000 camera taken away. We land in Qatar, camera stripped. It’s just little things here and there, things are showing up. We mis-scheduled. Again, got violent f------ food poisoning, next day got alcohol poisoning. Our luggage was delayed, so we had no clothes to get to events,” he said before making it clear he is not an atheist.
“Qatar was the first time I felt the wrath of God. I defamed Jesus and God, and I felt His wrath. And by the way, I want to make something clear, and I have something I want to say to you that I’ve been thinking about. I’m not a f------ atheist, I believe in God,” he insisted. “People don’t think I believe in God. It might not identify as the same God as you, but it was very telling to me how the karmic energy of the universe … just went right back around and put me in my place.”
In his recent comments to Crawford, Paul explained that he attended church with his religious mother as a boy, but he always struggled with connecting with Christianity. He said after experiencing what he felt was God’s wrath, he still struggled to connect to faith in Jesus because he isn’t someone who easily accepts things he doesn’t understand.
“I was like, ‘Well, what do you mean I like disrespected God in like a public setting. That could explain it,” Paul said. “And then it took me a while to figure out how to navigate [faith] because I'm also not the person who's like, ‘Oh, my bad. I believe in you now. Forgive me.’ I like need to believe it.”
