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 ‘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 !!!

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Well, I can say for myself that when I came to realize the extent of what I term paganism- defective beliefs that mostly predate Christianity- as the bulk of Christian culture in practically all contexts, it became only a matter of time until I walked out.

I’ve seen claimed elsewhere that Anne Rice’s son is gay. She’s also not entirely psychologically stable, whatever that means. But she’s also in her early sixties, when many women I know seem to become radical. They tell me they’ve been compromising and holding back and allowing distortions of truth all of their lives, and now they’re tired of it and have everything to gain and little to lose by living to integrity- in and by and for the truths they had felt necessary to suppress.

I read walkout stories and am always reminded of something Joan Didion wrote. She described those popular children’s books where the child is supposed to look for something hidden in a picture. One of the pictures is of a nice tree with very ornate and complicated green foliage. No one sees it at first, but the black lines distinguishing the leaves in a section of the tree form a terrifying tiger’s face. And once a person sees the tiger in the tree, s/he can never look at the tree picture again without seeing the tiger.

I think Anne Rice has seen the tiger in her tree, i.e. the inadequate humanity or inhumanity in Ancient World religious tradition. It’s an innocence that can’t be recovered. It can be whitewashed by agreeing with it, but at an obvious price in integrity.

I’m an atheist, but the idea that Christians have only recently turned bad is silly.

(Note: There are and always have been a number of fine Christians.)

On the other hand, this strikes me as a bit silly given there are Christian groups and individuals that support every position she lists and it is also indirectly hurtful to those groups and individuals by playing into the cultural myth that they don’t exist.