Posted on 07/29/2010 1:53:32 PM PDT by TaraP
Well, some stars like Amanda Bynes use technology like Twitter to tell the world they are retiring. Some stars like Kelsey Grammar announce the end of his marriage. But today Anne Rice became the first pop culture figure I know that decided to break up with Christians, and she did it using facebook.
On her official website she posted the following announcement via her facebook feed this afternoon:"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.
I find her writing to be compelling, and her personality appealing. I've followed her career for some years. She seems to be going through a bad patch. Could probably use a prayer or two.
She had a daughter who died young.
Dear Anne,
Mazel Tov!
“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.”
Weird statement. The only thing she’s okay with being is anti-christ.
BTW never heard of her.
Worshiping the self as a god is incompatible.
Sounds to me like she is casting her lot in with the “live for today” temporal ways of liberalism.
Mankind's moral and legal rebellion against his Creator has had a profound impact on the way he views God's law. Instead of welcoming God's concern for His creatures, some have declared war on God (Psalm 2:1-4) and mock His lawful ways.
I read some of her early books, before they started getting stupid and just a vehicle to show off her latest interests. Lestat was her favorite character across the novels. Even though Interview is about Luis, Lestat is still the center of the her vampire universe. She had a knee-jerk reaction to the overly-popular Cruise being chosen for the role, especially since she wanted Rutger Hauer (who is a much better actor than Cruise). She later realized Cruise actually did pull it off fairly well, at least wasn't the disaster everybody expected. But they were all out-acted by Kirsten Dunst who played Claudia, the child vampire.
Dunst was ok, but I think her performance has been way overrated because she was a kid doing adult material. I liked the art direction, photography and score (a replacement score, done in like ten days), but the movie was a snore.
My suspicion is that she has another vampire novel in the works, but figures she has to disavow her brief embrace of Christianity in order to really hook into the Twilight fan base. But hey, I'm a cynic.
So libs quit Christianity so that they won’t feel any guilt over being pro-gay, pro-feminism, pro-death, pro-marxist. No surprise there.
Makes me want to go and “friend” her just so I can call her an idiot.
Anne Rice is typical of many who call themselves Christians who want to live by preference rather than by conviction to the Truth.
I am avid student of the late Dr. Edwin Louis Cole who wrote in his book “Real Man” about a lesson he learned from renowned Pastor A. R. Bernard of Brooklyn, New York, taught him the difference between preferences and convictions. It is the reason that a lot of churches are being torn apart today because of preferences rather than convictions. Dr. Bernard’s thoughts are:
1. People who live by preferences can be negotiated out of their preferences. Convictions are non-negotiable.
2. People who live by preferences weaken under pressure; those with convictions grow stronger.
3. I think this is important. People who live by preferences always dislike those who hold convictions.
We all have a lot of preferences in life. We have preferences with regard to music,cars and clothes. That’s OK, and it is what makes us all unique. But when it comes to the Truth in God’s Word, these are not preferences to us; but are rock-solid convictions which offend weak minded people like Anne Rice who have not truly embraced the faith.
William F. Buckley once characterized people who pick and choose Catholic principles they either wish to follow or wish to disdain as “Cafeteria Catholics”. Also reminds me of Orson Welles in the movie Moby Dick, where he had a great bit role as a New England preacher. His five minute sermon to the whalers deals with Jonah and the Whale and focuses on how Jonah (before the storm and the whale) hires a ship to take him to a land where God does not reign and where His laws do not apply.
Exactly...you can quit something you never were in the first place. If you are truly saved...you can’t “quit”.
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