Jennifer Garner: F is for faith ... and F-bombs

Jennifer Garner (Photo: Twitter)

Actress Jennifer Garner, who appears in and now is promoting the new movie "Miracles From Heaven," recently visited pastor T.D. Jakes and discussed her faith and how it's always been a part of her life even though she doesn't talk about it much.

But her testimony has been tainted by a nearly simultaneous appearance online of a video of her reading a parody of a children's story that is punctuated, in every verse, with the F-bomb.

One of the verses she reads is:

All the kids from daycare are in dreamland,
The froggy has made his last leap
Hell no you can't go to the bathroom,
You know where you can go?
The f--- to sleep.

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Her Christian testimony was covered by Charisma News, which posted video of her discussing the impact her role in the movie has had on her life.

"I will say that being around this community, and while I've always gone to church in West Virginia, that when I got back to Los Angeles, I was talking to my kids about the movie, and they said, 'Mom, you don't take us to church,' and we went that Sunday, and they went today without me," she said.

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"That decision was a direct gift from this movie, and for that I'm very grateful," she said.

She explains she's never spoken much about faith.

"It's just something that we've always done, believed in, never really talked about," she said.

"So in that way it stretched me, because you can't be out in front of a movie like this. … I could lie and not say anything about it … but it's not fair to the film, it's not true to me and, and so it's made me really look at my town of Los Angeles and realize we don't talk about faith," she said.

"It is not a conversation that we have between takes on set," she said.

She also pointed out that there's "no bridge" between those of faith and others.

"That's part of what I love about this movie is that it’s a normal, wonderful family who happen to have leaned on their faith to guide them through the hardest thing in their lives," she said.

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But only a week after that interview appeared, Vanity Fair posted her video reading the "expletive-laden story."

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The report explains the story is from Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortes, who published a "parody children's book" called "Go the F--- to Sleep" in 2011.

"Samuel L. Jackson recorded the audiobook in classic deadpan, while Werner Herzog put an accented spin on his version," the report said.

"But what those and other celebrity readings lacked was the chipper-but-frazzled delivery of a mother on the verge. That's exactly what Jennifer Garner delivers in this poolside reading of the best-selling book."

The report noted her children, Violet, 10, Seraphina, 7, and Sam, 4.

"Garner said it was her children, particularly her eldest, Violet, who have helped her through a rocky split from husband Ben Affleck," the report said

The first lines from the story include:

The cats nestle close to their kittens,
The lambs have lain down with their sheep,
You're cozy and warm in your bed my dear,
Now go the f--- to sleep.

Each subsequent last stanza line includes the foul language.

Read the history of the attacks on marriage and the family, from the days of Karl Marx and Margaret Sanger to those now pushing for mandatory recognition of same-sex “marriage,” in “Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left has Sabotaged Family and Marriage.”