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Author Anne Rice 'quits' organized religion because she refuses to be 'anti-gay … anti-feminist … anti-Democrat.'




"Today I quit being a Christian. I'm out," she wrote. "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 10 years, I've tried. I've failed. I'm an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else.... 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."

Walking away from Christianity - Los Angeles Times

very interesting read on what changed her mind about the workings of the catholic church.

i.e. this:

Several commentators on her post have raised the jarring parallelism of recent cases involving two priests. One involves a leading American peace activist, Father Roy Bourgeois, who was excommunicated just four months after delivering a homily during a ceremony in which a woman was ordained a priest in defiance of canon law. The other touches on Steven Kiesle, an Oakland priest who was convicted of raping two young boys in 1978; he served three years' probation. He asked Rome to be "laicized" — to voluntarily leave the priesthood. Years passed before then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger replied that, for the good of all concerned, the case required further consideration. In 1987, Kiesle finally was defrocked, though by then he had become the youth minister at another Catholic parish, where he also molested children.
 
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LOL.
Catholicism isn't " Christian" . It's fucking voodoodoo_doo.
 

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Ann Rice glamorizes vampirism and got her start writing porn. It's not like she was completely committed in the first place.
 
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Author Anne Rice 'quits' organized religion because she refuses to be 'anti-gay … anti-feminist … anti-Democrat.'.

I thought it was weird that the, "68-year-old author of bestselling novels about the sexy undead and, pseudonymously, of various sadomasochistic-inflected tales," rejoined the Catholic Church in the first place.....WTF???:eek:

Also "Anti-Democrat?" WTF is that supposed to mean? JFK, a DEMOCRAT, was famously the first Catholic President of the USA, and, if I had to guess, he's not the only catholic democrat.

I've not read a lot of Rice: I enjoyed the movie "Interview with a Vampire." She should just stick to writing novels that need a good editor (shit, ANNE, how many times do we need to know that New Orleans is old, dilapidated, stinky, hot, humid, and beatiful?)
 
i am not a big rice fan....she converted back to the church after her son and husband died...she was in need of filling a void...


allie how kind and christian of you to judge how committed she was...do you think anyone who leaves the church was simply not committed enough?
 
Why does she think anyone would give a damn about her religion or why she chooses to have it or not have it? Why don't these people who fancy themselves 'celebrities' shut the hell up already, no one gives a damn how they live their private lives.
 
Her son and husband died?

How is noting that she wrote porn and vampire novels un-christian, bones? I'm just saying. That's not the sort of stuff christians generally are into generating.
 
I don't think her family died. I can't find anything about it.
Her husband is a poet, Stan Rice. Her son writes too, I think.

""Well, my birth name is Howard Allen because apparently my mother thought it was a good idea to name me Howard. My father's name was Howard, she wanted to name me after Howard, and she thought it was a very interesting thing to do."

"A writer can’t know everything about what she writes. It’s impossible. You reach deep down and you bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book but you don’t know everything about it. You can’t."

"Once I returned to the Church and began to see the universe as a place that really did incorporate redemption and really tried to understand the implications of there being a God, my identification with the vampires as outcasts, as outsiders and lost souls began to totally wane. It no longer worked for me. I had done it. It had led me to this point."

"I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord."

Anne Rice
 
And while her vampire books are interesting her "writing only for the lord" novels are a wee bit....boring.
 
Good for Ms. Rice. Thinking people must wonder why an organization founded on the principle of love and evolved from the teaching of one person, be that a man or a son of god, who was persecuted and killed by a conservative government would choose to deny rights to other human beings.
There are many good men and women who serve Christian Churches, sadly in the last decades of 20th Century they lost their way. Churches and labor unions as well as political party's are all self serving institutions. No matter what they say, they are in it for number 1.
 
Oh, she and her husband had a daughter who died of leukemia in the 60s.

I guess it's possible her husband is dead..she's 68, I think.
 
Good for Ms. Rice. Thinking people must wonder why an organization founded on the principle of love and evolved from the teaching of one person, be that a man or a son of god, who was persecuted and killed by a conservative government would choose to deny rights to other human beings.
There are many good men and women who serve Christian Churches, sadly in the last decades of 20th Century they lost their way. Churches and labor unions as well as political party's are all self serving institutions. No matter what they say, they are in it for number 1.

Killed by a cosnervative government?

:lol::lol::lol:
 
Ann Rice glamorizes vampirism and got her start writing porn. It's not like she was completely committed in the first place.

how do you know how committed she was? that was the judgemental part

No, it was an observation.

She was quite open about her position on God and the Church. That's how I know. She lost her faith at 18. She regained her faith in Jesus but has always been very dicey about many of the tenets of Christianity.

Like I said, that's not judgmental at all. It's based on her own writings and interviews.
 

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