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"But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people"

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It lands like a modest sentence, but it’s really a quiet pitch for a total identity swap. Cliff Richard isn’t arguing doctrine; he’s describing a behavioral before-and-after that sounds like lived experience: Jesus doesn’t just comfort you, he rewires how you see yourself and how you treat the people in your orbit. That’s the intent - not to win a theological debate, but to make faith legible as character change you can measure in the mirror and in relationships.

The wording does a lot of work. “Attitude” is ordinary, almost casual; it drags the cosmic down to the daily. No talk of miracles, heaven, or sin. Just posture. That rhetorical choice fits Richard’s public role as a pop musician who had to translate conviction into mainstream language without sounding like a preacher. It also sidesteps the culture-war version of Christianity and aims at something harder to argue with: anyone can test whether a belief makes them less bitter, less self-absorbed, more patient.

There’s subtext in the two directions of change: “towards yourself” comes first, hinting that self-contempt and self-inflation are twin problems, and that faith offers a steadier self-image. Then “towards other people,” the social proof. If the change is real, it leaks outward.

Context matters: Richard’s career unfolded in a Britain increasingly suspicious of public piety. Framing Jesus as an attitude shift lets him present religion not as tribal identity, but as personal renovation - a softer claim, and a sharper one, because it stakes everything on observable transformation.

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Cliff Richard (born October 14, 1940) is a Musician from England.

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