Aaron Rodgers' Family 'Dismayed' by the Quarterback's Comments on Religion as Their Feud Continues

Mar. 15, 2025

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During an intimate conversation with girlfriendDanica Patrickon herPretty Intensepodcast, Green Bay Packers quarterback said that he had trouble connecting with his religious community as a child.

“Most people that I knew, church was just… you just had to go,” the Super Bowl XLV champion recalled.

“They were dismayed,” says the insider. “The family is very dedicated to their Christian faith.”

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Rogers, 36, has beenestranged from his family– includingBachelorettestarJordan Rodgers– for several years. He has not spoken publicly about the reasons behind the estrangement, but the insider tells people that religion is a part of it.

In a 2017 interview with theNew York Times, the family patriarch, Ed Rodgers, said that “fame can change things,” and that Aaron allegedly stopped talking to his family members at the end of 2014, shortly after he began dating actressOlivia Munn.

During thePretty Intensepodcast, Rodgers told Patrick that he has gone down a path to a “different type of spirituality” that is more meaningful to him than what he experienced as a child.

“I don’t know how you can believe in a God who wants to condemn most of the planet to a fiery hell,” he said. “What type of loving, sensitive, omnipresent, omnipotent being wants to condemn his beautiful creation to a fiery hell at the end of all this?”

Rodgers did not specifically refer to himself as an atheist, but he said that religion can divide people.

“Religion can be a crutch, it can be something that people have to have to make themselves feel better,” Rodgers continued. “Because it’s set up binary, it’susandthem,savedandunsaved,heavenandhell, it’senlightenedandheathen, it’sholyandrighteous… that makes a lot of people feel better about themselves.”

source: people.com