You will never guess which 90s heartthrob started their own religion..

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 photo credit: dailymailUK

Well, if you give up, the answer is Andrew Keegan. Yep, the curly-haired hunk that we grew up drooling over in "Camp Nowhere," and years later on "10 Things I Hate About You," has created his own spiritual movement: "Full Circle."
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Keegan became "enlightened" in 2011 when he, and two of his friends, were attacked by gang members in California. One of them pulled a gun on Keegan's manager and a huge fight erupted. Keegan was rushed to the hospital and received stitches for his injuries.
What made this event even more significant for Keegan was the fact that it happened around the time the earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan. He felt that these two events were related, and it led him to a "higher calling."
He recalled looking at a lamp bulb on the street and it exploded. He then told reporters that another event happened that truly began his journey into "spiritual enlightenment." He was staring into a quartz stone that was on an alter, and suddenly, it jumped off the table (it could have been a jumping bean, dude).

Currently, Keegan's Church houses many followers. His followers see Keegan as a leader. In fact, it is Keegan who has the "ultimate say in all things."
Their services consist of a lot of new age music, mantras about living the frugal life, meditations, healing energies, etc. Like I said though, "Master" Keegan has the ultimate say in all things. Supposedly he "knows all things as well."

(cue "Twilight Zone Theme.")

Folks, I heard about this story last week, and it still isn't less bizarre to me. One has to wonder what kind of drugs Keegan is on to achieve such a monstrous ego? I mean, there isn't even a 12 step program for this. I'm all for people finding spiritual enlightenment, but, finding it through a washed out has-been who has just given up is not the way to spiritual enlightenment. Sure, Andrew Keegan did some work in the 2000s. He had his stint on "7th Heaven (playing a single father who had a major hard-on for Mary Camden)," which I now find kind of ironic, since that was a show about a Christian family. Here we are talking about one of its guest stars inventing his own religion.

I used to think that Kirk Cameron was, perhaps, the craziest religious fuck to have ever come out of the 90s. Now, we have Andrew Keegan. I'm not sure if he's on the same caliber as Kirk Cameron. I mean, Keegan probably is more open-minded than Cameron, so he deserves brownie points there. But, Kirk Cameron certainly doesn't have the ego that Andrew Keegan has.

Oh Andrew Keegan, when I was in my teens, I had posters of you on my ceiling above my bed. If I knew that you were egotistical and delusional, I would have just kept them on my wall next to my window.

It is okay to be spiritual. I'm all for spirituality. But, for Christ's sake, no one is important enough to start a religion that all people take seriously.
Andrew Keegan, be spiritual and please come back to acting!

In the meantime, I guess I will have to remember the old Andrew Keegan and watch "Camp Nowhere," "10 Things I Hate About You," and "7th Heaven (and fast forward through the godly parts)."


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