Anne Rice leaves Christianity
Legendary author Anne Rice has announced that she’s quitting Christianity.
The “Interview with a Vampire” author, who wrote a book about her spirituality titled "Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession" in 2008, said Wednesday that she refuses to be “anti-gay,” “anti-feminist," “anti-science” and “anti-Democrat.”
Rice wrote, “For those who care, and I understand if you don't: Today I quit being a Christian ... 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 then added another post explaining her decision on Thursday:
“My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me," Rice wrote. "But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been or might become.”
**Since when was Christianity something about followers...isn't it about following Christ? If you feel Christianity is about being anit-gay or whatever...isn't that because Christ has said that "marriage between a man and a woman"? What does it have to do with being apart of Christianity. She has it completely wrong.
Weird. That is all I can say. Weird,weird, weird.
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Interesting how mankind likes to blame their weaknesses on something else.. Someone needs to tell that chic that we have not been promised that it will be easy, but it will be worth it. Aren't you glad for your understanding of the gospel and how He wants the best for us, for eternity?
ReplyDeleteThat is just crazy. Thanks for sharing. It was interesting.
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