[Clemenza]

Gene Roddenberry was raised as a Baptist, but became an atheist in adulthood. Isaac Asimov and Harlan Ellison are two Jewish Sci Fi writers that I can think of (and I'm not big on Sci Fi, or fantasy for that matter).

Of course if ANY genre makes me want to vomit it is "Magical Realism," which seems to be the province of Catholics.

[Tax-chick]

Salman Rushdie is a “magic realism” writer - and NOT a Catholic. I like Isabel Allende, myself, although my Spanish has faded since college so that I have to read her books in translation.

[blackpacific]

Do you have any examples of “Magical Realism” that are specifically Catholic?

[nickcarraway]

What about Borges, you don’t like him?

[nickcarraway]

I think Magic Realism descends from writes like Dickens, Poe, Gogol, Dostoevsky, eventually to Kafka. I’m not crazy about Gabriel Garcia Marquez and ones like that. But Jorge Luis Borges is definitely a keeper.