Teenage heartthrob left Hollywood to focus on family

But he was struggling internally whether Hollywood was where he needed to be. And then he had something call to him; his faith.

Kirk Cameron, wearing a tuxedo with a red bow tie and a red cummerbund, attends an event, circa 1982. (Photo by Vinnie Zuffante/Getty Images)

When he was growing up, his family was not religious. The actor said, “When I was growing up, we didn’t go to church.”

“If you had asked me, I would have said I would be in the category of an atheist at 16 years old, 17 years old,” he surprisingly revealed later.

“I think I caught my atheism—it was by contagion,” he shared, he was referring to his teachers who taught him science and other subjects and regarded religion as “just a fairy tale.”

A chance encounter made the young boy reconsider his relationship with faith.Continue reading…

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