Posted on 07/30/2010 7:57:36 AM PDT by NYer
Novelist Anne Rice remains committed to Christ. But she is quitting Christianity.
The “Interview With The Vampire” author, who in recent years has spoken publicly about her faith and written a series of novels tracing the life of Jesus, wrote on her Facebook page Wednesday that she was finished with organized Christianity.
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 outside. My conscience will allow nothing else.
She followed that post a few minutes later with more details:
As I said below, 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.
On Thursday, Rice posted a series of passages from the New Testament:
Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.
But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
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Luther opened Pandora's box when he said anyone could interpret scripture. Here is yet another victim.
Don’t care about her theology, but the movie rendition of the vampire shtick seriously one-upped the gayness factor of the genre.
Anne Rice has every right to refuse to be anti-secular humanist but she should remember that humanism is the worship of man over Christ and is thus hypocritical in her logic.
Pure anti-protestant bigotry.
Pure anti-protestant bigotry.
HAHAHA...LOONEY ANNE
Perfect example of the seeds that were thrown on the path and sprouted for a very short time.
I quit the organized ‘church’ years ago, when I got divorced.
I was still pretty active and concerned with those things so I went to see them about what to do if I was divorced, but wanted to have a church wedding again if I got married again.
They said no, it was so terrible, it’s not allowed, and etc etc etc.... but if I gave them $400 it would be OK
Something about that just didnt feel right any more
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This sounds as much like a political conversion as a rejection of religion. I suppose that makes sense, though.
>> “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.”
You blame Protestantism for this? It doesn’t appear to me that she’s quitting based Protestant/Catholic disagreements and scriptural interpretation — she’s quitting based on items that the vast majority of Protestants and Catholics agree about.
SnakeDoc
but if I gave them $400 it would be OK
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Thats interesting...
What did “they/them” say the $400 was for ???
I have tried to be tolerant, but the Left beat it out of me.
To be Pro-Democrat means being Anti-Christ...
“In the name of Christ,” she rejects the fundamental standards of personal morality.
My wife and i were just talking about that scripture a few days ago. Excellent analysis.
What a shame! We must pray for her.
“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.”
This dingbat must be on drugs. She wants to be pro-Democrat AND pro-life? That’s impossible!
multi ergo audientes ex discipulis eius dixerunt durus est hic sermo quis potest eum audire
Many therefore of his disciples, hearing it, said: This saying is hard; and who can hear it?
Like many of those who have been fooled today, her real god is Caesar.
It was only a matter of time - if you spend much of your time writing and thinking about “vampires” it won’t be long before evil creeps into your consciousness.
And yet Jesus spoke to anyone, not just the religious leaders. So do you think he would expect his words now to only be spoken through a specially trained cadre of religious elite? What’s the purpose of the Holy Spirit? Is he just loitering here picking his teeth?
“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.”
Her statement tells us all we need to know about her. She can refuse these things because God has given her the ability to choose, like the rest of us. That does not mean that she is right. She will deal with the consequences.
So many people have been brainwashed into a distorted and watered-down version of Christianity over the last 50 years that Anne Rice may not even be in the minority in her moral relativist world view. Very sad.
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