jboot, you are making some hasty generalizations I believe. What makes us a member of the Body of Christ? Is it adhering to a specific church’s teachings or is it faith in saving grace and a relation with Jesus? I don’t plan to further discuss/argue with you and especially the athiests on here. But you have judged with certainty someone that you really don’t know.
If you would like to know about Rice, the information is easy to find. I was intrigued after I saw her testimony on iamsecond.com. Then I saw a book at the library she wrote “Christ the Lord, Out of Egypt”. Except for what I assume is Catholic theology about Mary, the book was very good, telling the story from Jesus’ boyhood perspective. Her path to being a Christian was addressed in the prologue I think, of that book. Thank goodness the ultimate judgement is not ours to make, agreed?
I do not presume to say "Anne Rice is damned" because I do not know. But neither can I say that she is saved. I believe that anyone who can repudiate the church so thoroughly (and so publically) as she has is in a precarious place. It is telling that she has returned to writing the erotic horror stories that she repudiated when she converted just a few short years ago. 2 Peter 2:15-22 comes to mind.