Never heard of Hilary Mantel or the Booker Prize.
Maybe it’s not really meant for respectable people or Pharisees. But sinners are welcome.
Oscar Wilde
She lost her religious faith at age 12 and says that this left a permanent mark on her: the “real cliche, the sense of guilt. You grow up believing that you’re wrong and bad. And for me, because I took what I was told really seriously, it bred a very intense habit of introspection and self-examination and a terrible severity with myself. So that nothing was ever good enough. It’s like installing a policeman, and one moreover who keeps changing the law
During her twenties, she suffered from a debilitating and painful illness. This was initially diagnosed as a psychiatric illness, for which she was hospitalised and treated with anti-psychotic drugs. These paradoxically produced psychotic symptoms; as a consequence, for some years she refrained from seeking help from doctors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Mantel
In a way she is correct.
The Catholic Church is for sinners, the poor, the lost, the downtrodden and all those who are not “respectable.”
There are about 400,000 current Catholic priests and there have been 4,000 molestation cases in the past 50 years. That works out to less than 1% when you consider that we are dealing with a population over time, one that probably includes over 800,000 priests. You know liberals are dishonest when you compare their shock over this scandal with their indifference to the universal abuses from socialist governments, from Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany through today. Liberals disgust me. As for priests, more than 99% of them deserve our respect, which makes them a whole lot better than leftists.
I looked her up. She writes wacky books against faith. What do we expect.
“I think that nowadays the Catholic Church is not an institution for respectable people.”
No, just saints.
I am very grateful to finally be entering a stage in my life in which idiots amuse me. Ms. Mantel certainly qualifies. It is much better than being bothered by it all. Also, I have read that abuse in public schools is much higher than in the religious community, but they, like liberal pols, rely on media as protecters.
Shouldn’t Christians be praying for this woman?
What IS it about us that elicits contempt, derision and scorn as automatic responses? (I am including ME in this question.)
Does God love her any less than he loves me?
What am I doing when I vilify an object of his love?
There is a line between refuting ideas that distort the truth and attacks and judgements upon persons. I believe the former is God pleasing; the latter pleases the evil one.
Color me “unrespectable”.
Well nuts! I just down loaded her latest book on my iPad after getting the first as a gift...
I hate helping these lib jerks...
Her fictionalized books about Cromwell had positive reviews, and if that’s your thing, you oughta read them (not mine.) However, her accidental arrival at the hard truth about the Catholic Church (because, yes indeed, it is not for the respectable!) only illustrates what one writer said recently in an interview I’ve read: “As a rule, the artist is stupider than his work.”