Pop music star Justin Bieber recently leapfrogged the Bible in popularity on Facebook. Bieber’s page was rated by AllFacebook.com as the third most engaged Facebook page, just head of The Bible in fourth place.
The list of “Facebook's Most Engaging Pages” is released ever week, and is determined by totaling the number of interactions – or the “likes” and comments – that fans post to each page over the course of seven days.
Bieber’s page garnered around 1.3 million interactions, just slightly ahead of The Bible, but he has some way to catch up to the page in the number one spot, Jesus Daily, which attracted nearly 4.7 million interactions in the last week. Second place belongs “Dios Es Bueno,” which means “God Is Good,” with about 2.1 million interactions.
While Bieber's Christian faith is well known, the teenage pop sensation recently created controversy when he informed V Magazine that he feels no need to attend church.
“I don’t think I’m religious. I am spiritual. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sins. I believe that he put me in this position, and that I have to always give him the glory he deserves for putting me here. But I don’t consider myself religious,” Bieber said to V Magazine in an interview.
“A lot of people who are religious, I feel like they get lost. They go to church just to go to church. I am not trying to disrespect them at all, you know, whatever works for you; but for me, I focus more on praying and talking to Him. I don’t have to go to church. I haven’t been to church in a long time, but I know I have a relationship with Him. People can be like, 'If you don’t go to church, what do you mean, how are you a Christian?' But I am. I talk to Him, and that’s all.”
Bieber posted the link to the V Magazine interview on his Facebook account on Monday, and since then nearly 37,000 people “liked” it, while approximately 7,000 have commented on the post.
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