Author Ann Rice says goodbye to Christianity

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Gothic author Anne Rice has had a long and difficult road in search of religious truth and it is doubtful that her travels have ended. But she has made a significant change of course recently. She has left Christianity for the second time.

As author of the The Interview with a Vampire series, Anne Rice has cemented herself in popular culture. The books are decidedly atheistic and has re-imagined the vampire myth without the fear of crucifixes and holy water for the modern generation. Rice left the Roman Catholic Church at the age of 18. But in 1998, after Rice nearly died in surgery and later went into a diabetic coma, she returned to her childhood religion.

In a very public statement, Anne Rice dedicated herself to “glorifying God” and began working on her “Christ the Lord” book series. It was hard to imagine how someone who wrote the famed Vampire series could return to Christianity. It certainly confused many of her fans. It wasn’t just a return to religion, but the veracity of that return which really made some of her fans scratch our heads.

On July 28th, Anne Rice posted on her facebook fan page that she is quitting Christianity. However, she is not necessarily leaving belief in God or even belief in Jesus. The statement is a little puzzling, but Rice makes it clear that her departure from religion is not theological as much as it is moral. Here is what she said:

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 followed that status update up with this update an hour later:

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.

While Anne Rice has quit Christianity, she has not yet returned to atheism and secular humanism. But this is at least a strong step in the right direction and may inspire others to re-evaluate the morals that Christianity indoctrinates.

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APG
13 years ago

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If I could meet her in person, I would
love to say “Thank you Anne Rice –
for so very articulately stating what
I have felt in my heart for years” !!!!

One’s ‘Faith-in-Christ’ should IN NO WAY
be tied into the man-controlled ‘Religion’
that so many refer to as “Christianity”
(especially that apostate, psuedo-religious
political-movement called ‘evangelicalism’)

It took me forever to realize that my
relationship with God (as established
through Christ Jesus, God The Son) was
IN NO WAY dependent on the apostate
psuedo-religious movement sweeping
America in the name of the “church”.

If Christ were walking the earth today,
a lot of these same “religious” types
would be the first to demand that He
be ‘crucified’ — and based merely on
who He chose as FRIENDS (women,
gays, foreigners, immigrants, the poor,
the rejected, the downtrodden, the rich,
men, old, young, happy, sad, and so on).

The “evangelicals” (not to be mistaken
for TRUE FOLLOWERS of Christ) and
other “church” types have essentially
hijacked the Christian ‘Faith’ in order to
turn it into a mammon-worshipping,
power-mongering, “Religion” of hate.

These people are more akin to a system of
ANTI-CHRIST (i.e. “against”-Christ) than
to anything tied into WHO CHRIST IS.

Their evil has reached such profound levels
that even people who know and love Christ
are turned off from them and their words
(again proving these “church” types are
really nothing more than anti-Christ,
self-righteous Pharisees and are not
even remotely related to Jesus Christ).

Never again will I waste my time stepping
into the psuedo-religious social-club that
is known as “church” or associate myself
with the political-clique that is known as
‘christianity’ — because FROM NOW ON
— I realize that I do NOT “need” either
in order to have a relationship with MY
LORD JESUS CHRIST (in fact, those
two entities were actually ‘interfering’
with my relationship with God)

THROUGH CHRIST — GOD HAS OPENLY
EXPRESSED HIS LOVE TO ‘EVERYONE’
(no matter if rich, poor, gay, straight, male,
female, sickly, healthy and so on) — AND
CHRIST (not the so-called”church”) IS
‘THE DOOR’ and ‘THE WAY’ TO GOD!!

ALL ARE WELCOME TO APPROACH AND
TO ENTER THROUGH ‘THE DOOR’ TO GOD!!

NO ONE IS REJECTED BY JESUS CHRIST !!!

JESUS LOVED AND LOVES EVERYONE !!!

LET’S ALL TRY TO REMEMBER
THE BIBLE VERSE OF ‘JOHN 3:17’:

“For God did NOT send His Son
into the world – to condemn
the world, BUT that the world,
THROUGH HIM, might be SAVED !!!!”

JESUS CHIST – and *not* the institution known
as “the church” or the religion called “christianity”
— IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE!!!

LIKE MANY OTHER PEOPLE – I AM DONE
WITH THE CHURCH & WITH CHRISTIANITY
— AND FROM HERE ON OUT – MY FOCUS IS
ON (AND FAITH IN GOD RELIES IN) JESUS
CHRIST AND JESUS CHRIST ALONE !!!

.

Reply to  Professor Mike
13 years ago

Maybe she has taken the view that “I love Jesus, it’s his followers I can’t stand!”

The only good vampires are the ones like in Near Dark and Dusk til Dawn. Campy, bloody, cool, and badass.

Reply to  Mother Hen
13 years ago

Remember Dark Shadows? Back in the 70’s…creepy stuff!…on Black and white TV’s too.

Reply to  Teeluck
13 years ago

Dark Shadows, and Barnabas Collins was the vampire.

13 years ago

Krell, are you saying this is purely propaganda to sell books? Gasp!

13 years ago

I suspect that she has a new book that she has written and soon to be published, detailing her ordeals and tribulations of her “Christian journey”.

13 years ago

WHile I don’t like her books, and friends in the business who know claim she is an obnoxious primadonna with an ego the size of Manhattan, I can’t fault a single word.

Though I do wonder if she is planning on making a return to the romantic vampire genre now that Twilight has just re-popularized it. (Homoerotic French Country vampires are far more erotic than prepubescent sparkly ones IMHO.)

Jess
Reply to  Mother Hen
13 years ago

Good, I can now go and repurchase the Vampire Chronicles I got rid of when she went all wonky on me. Oh and totally ditto the sparkly vampires and Vampire Diary type vamps. I want my vampires sexy and bloody and with some substance. Don’t want them flirting and twinkly in sunshine. The woman that foisted that crap on the populace, is Mormon so what does she really know about vamps? Nothing, give me Rice, Charlaine Harris and Laurell Hamilton kind of vampires any day.

SJ
13 years ago

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.
Amen indeed.

13 years ago

Sounds like the lady has read my book…

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