Source: USA Today
Anne Rice, the famous novelist for New Orleans who’s son is gay, has announced she will no longer consider herself a “Christian,” although she remains a firm devotee of Christ, because the faith’s denouncement of homosexuality.
Rice and her son shared their thoughts openly:
“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.”
Rice writes about contemporary characters living in worlds of chaos, especially spiritual chaos within the realm of a technologically shifting world, where data recovery on self and searching are key. Not data solutions for business, but data on the brain and the soul’s imprint.
The mother of novelist Christopher Rice, who is gay, goes on to say:
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.
In a USA TODAY profile of Anne and Christopher, Rice talked about growing up Catholic, drifting away as a teen and marrying an atheist. After the death of a young daughter, she began writing her vampire books,…about lost souls looking for answers, so in a sense I was always on this journey back. I do get people saying, “How can you be such a fool to believe in God?” I sense many are young Goth kids who feel abandoned. I just say, look, you’re looking for the same things that I was, transcendence and redemption. I found what my characters were looking for.
Even now, as she tosses off organized religion, Rice posts that she’s still… an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God … Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.
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My Take: All I’ve got to say is hallelujah! I’ve got nothing but respect for Rice for doing this. It’s time more so-called “Christians” with fame and fortune reconsider their ties to a faith that promotes wars and hatred against anyone who doesn’t fall in to the so-called Christian mold.
I don’t care if you make lockpicks or run a home based candle business, or have a million-company that manufacturers cell phones, if you all yourself a Christian you should promote love and tolerance.
The Christian church uses so many social lock out tools aimed at keeping young, gay men and women away from faith and worship. This makes about as much sense as burning Scentsy wickless candles in the rain. Why ostracize people when your faith is supposed to promote the teachings of Jesus on love and compassion?
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