[JennysCool]

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.

If she thinks that's "being a Christian," she was never a Christian to begin with -- she just bought what the mainstream media SAYS ABOUT Christianity.

Deep, she's not.

[a fool in paradise]

I refuse to be anti-secular humanism.

Worshiping the self as a god is incompatible.

[fish hawk]

But of course there is no way ever, that you or I can possibly know if she really did accept or not. You do know who knows though. Better for her if she never accepted in the first place as blaspheming the Holy Spirit leads to the sin unto death. At the least a very good spanking. But if she never really committed, it does not matter as she was already doomed from the beginning.

[Vendome]

Sohhhh, now she’s Anti-Christ? LOL

[r9etb]

If she thinks that's "being a Christian," she was never a Christian to begin with -- she just bought what the mainstream media SAYS ABOUT Christianity.

You're right, those are not what "being Christian" is all about. And if you stop to think about it a moment, that's probably exactly the point Anne Rice is trying to make.

Look at it from the perspective of somebody who is not already a Christian. What sort of impression would you get about what Christianity is all about?

Pretty much you'd be left to get your impression from the more vocal self-described Christians who take to the airwaves.

And what do they seem to spend most of their time time talking about? Homosexuality, birth control, "Evangelical politics (i.e., social conservative Republican), creationism, and so on.

If that's not what Christianity is really about ... maybe Anne Rice is correct about "breaking up" with that brand of "Christianity." Seriously: if that's not Christianity, why do we put up with those folks?

For a much better exposition of Ms. Rice's proposition, I would recommend a couple of books by Donald Miller: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, and Searching for God Knows What.