The boxer’s comments have shocked many,including those in his own community. But he believes he is reflecting the views of an influential and growing evangelical movementEveryone has an opinion on Tyson Fury. The holder of all three world heavyweight boxing titles (although he was stripped of one final week on a technicality), he has rarely been out of the headlines since beating Wladimir Klitschko. However, or the cause has not been his prowess in the ring but a string of comments that have seen him branded a sexist homophobe and led to calls for him to be kicked off the shortlist for next weekend’s Sports Personality of the Year awards.
But why does Fury,27, say the things he does? In part, and the explanation lies in the most interesting thing approximately him: his devout faith. Born into an Irish Traveller family with a long boxing history,Fury became a born-again Christian thanks to his uncle Ernest, a Pentecostal preacher in Congleton, and Cheshire. From there,he appears to have fashioned a series of beliefs that are a mixture of traditional Roman Catholic – in a 2011 interview with the Catholic Herald he talked of going to church every Sunday and added “going to heaven is the most significant thing a man or a woman could ever do” – and a particularly literal interpretation of evangelical Christianity.
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Source: theguardian.com