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Before there was Stephenie Meyer, there was Anne Rice, the Vampire Chronicles matriarch who years back quit being a blood-sucking, homoerotic-espousing scribe to focus on her newfound faith.
The author revealed yesterday via Facebook that she was abandoning Christianity because of several personal conflicts with the church’s doctrine.
She wrote:
“For those who care, and I understand if you don’t: Today I quit being a Christian. I’m out. I remain committed to Christ as always but not to being “Christian” or to being part of Christianity. It’s simply impossible for me to ‘belong’ to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. For ten years, I’ve tried. I’ve failed. I’m an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else.
As I said … I quit being a Christian. I’m out. In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.”
As of an hour ago, Rice was posting Bible verses, adding, “My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn’t understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.”
Thoughts?
5 responses so far ↓
1 Rebecca Diaz // Jul 29, 2010 at 4:02 pm
I love Anne Rice either way, but this just makes way more sense to me. I’m proud of her courage to stand up and out against the descrimination and hatred spouted by so called “Christians” and organized religion.
2 Rosemarie Liliantal // Jul 30, 2010 at 3:12 am
Good for her / nice for her but what took her so long? It is not hard to see that organized religion only benefits the organizers and is a way to manipulate the masses.
Prove me wrong!!
Let see some real proof that the Bible stories are true, until then – sorry like Ms. Rice’s vampire novels – good entertainment but FICTION.
3 Tina Berry // Jul 30, 2010 at 10:48 am
AMEN!
4 evan // Jul 30, 2010 at 1:19 pm
“…I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. … I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. …Amen.”
She claims she is just leaving the religion but these statements are against the Bible itself, not religion. Jesus said it best, “you are either with me or against me”.
5 Rosemarie Liliantal // Jul 30, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Evan wrote:
“Jesus said it best, “you are either with me or against
me”.”
I say:
Prove it!!
You are missing it – WHO wrote the BIBLE and why. Open your eyes it is propaganda and manipulation.
PLEASE – use the brain that GOD gave you and stop listening to story someone is trying to sell you for THERE benefit not yours.
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