Anne Rice Quits Christianity in The Name of Christ
by Best-selling Author Anne Rice tells her fans that she quits Christianity.
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Anne Rice, the 68-year old best-selling author of gothic and religious books, announced in her Facebook page recently that she quits “Christianity”. She made two different posts that drew public attention. 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.”
She clarified her statement on her following post:“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.”
Thousands responded to her public message; I’m one of them who was challenge by her strong statement. It made me ask: What does it mean being a true Christian? Are fiction novels with witchcraft and wizardry themes evil? There’s a discussion board about this in the Harry Dresden fanpage in this link- CLICK HERE.
She said in an interview that she wants to get out of that “confusion”; that in order to know Christ, she has to go to the “wilderness”. She also mentioned that she’s still against abortion. She had returned to Catholicism years ago, and now she’s leaving organized religion.
Here’s an excerpt from Anne’s Profession of Faith:
“In 1998 I returned to the Catholic Church… I realized that the greatest thing I could do to show my complete love for Him was to consecrate my work to Him—to use any talent I had acquired as a writer, as a storyteller, as a novelist—for Him and for Him alone… Thence began my journey into intense Biblical study, intense historical research, and intense effort to write novels about the Jesus of Scripture, the Jesus of Faith, in His own vibrant First Century World.”
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