Ooookaaaayyyyy . . .
I guess the only thing about this relevant to CS is, how will this affect her future novels?
You know, that’s really insulting to a lot of Christians. I haven’t described myself as one since I was a teenager and I’m still pissed on behalf of my parents.
I know she’d gotten a big religious readership for her more recent Jesus novels - I doubt they’ll care much for whatever she’s calling whatever she’s doing now.
Maybe she’ll write something worth reading again now.
Why would it have any effect on future novels? I get the impression that her values/beliefs have not changed, just that she no longer belongs to a particular church. I expect her writing will remain much the same. Lots of angsty vampires feeling sorry for themselves because they’re immortal and beautiful. I quit reading her after the body-snatcher book (forgot title).
Eh, she’s just pissed about the Churches irrational and biggoted anti-vampire stance.
It is rather hypocritical, since their core sacrament involves blood-drinking . . .
You may find it insulting but with the exception of a few denominations, she’s not that far off the mark in terms of what christianity demands.
Someone didn’t check out the United Church of Christ, among other denominations. Most of those beliefs are practically written into their bylaws/articles of faith/whatever.
There are plenty of Christian sects that don’t believe in any of the crap she’s (quite reasonbly) objecting to. I don’t see why she would feel a need to renounce organized Christian religion generally (as opposed to renouncing particular sects that do endorse that crap).
You’re thinking of Stephenie Meyer.
Does Anne Rice still even ping the radar? I gave up on her years and years ago.
Because after she publicy announced her conversion, she started writing novels from a definitely Christian (for a certain value of such) POV, such as Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt.
May the Gay Vampire Jesus be with you all.
You’re saying Oakminster renounced Anne Rice because of a generalization drawn from a similar writer’s characteristics?
Interesting.
There are plenty of churches she could join that would fit her. The entire Covenant Network of Presbyterian Churches, for example.
And I don’t see why that would change. She still believes the same stuff, and I’d expect her writing to continue to be influenced by those beliefs. Though it might be kinda funny if she did a “Donkey Ears on the Pope” kinda thing…
That was my first thought too. OK I’m not religious but I do know there are such huge number of Chrisitan churches, you probably could find one that suits your beliefs.
Mmmm…I’ve seen her attitude before with some people raised Catholic. (And IIRC that’s what she converted, or rather reverted to.) My husband has it, as a matter of fact.
They just can’t see any denomination of Christianity other than Catholicism being “true”. They’re newbies, Johnny-come-latelys, and lack the authority that comes with being The First Christian Church. Only the RCC “counts”.
So when she became disenchanted with the RCC again, she didn’t really have the option in her mind of moving to a more liberal denomination. The RCC had branded itself in her heart as The Only True Church, so she couldn’t take any “lesser” ones seriously.
This is only my supposition, of course, and I know that there are people who convert from the RCC to Protestant churches, and are devout and happy in their new denomination. But as I’ve said, it’s an attitude I’ve seen more than once before, and I would not be surprised if it’s true here.
You can take the girl out of the Church, but you can’t take the church out of the girl. I quit reading her many years ago for that very reason.
See TVTropes page: Christianity Is Catholic.
[Alec Guinness]Anne Rice… that’s a name I haven’t heard in… a long time…[/Alec Guinness]
Anne Rice was born with one great book in her and she decided instead to spread it over 20. If she’d written the Bible it would be 9,834 books to date and still growing, and every character a bisexual whining aristocrat.