Anne Rice No Longer a Christian
July 31, 2010 by Jennifer Mercado · 3 Comments
Anne Rice, best known for her gothic novels, the most notable of all being “Interview with a Vampire”, has declared that she is no longer a Christian.
Rice said that although she is no longer a part of any denomination, she remains a believer. As a matter of fact, she continues to read theology and continues to post Biblical passages on her Facebook page.
According to her what made her renounce Christianity were the child abuse scandals in the church which was compounded by the church leader’s defensive reaction, and by the ex-communication of Sister Margaret McBride, a nun and hospital administrator who had approved the abortion for a woman whose life was in danger.
Rice wrote on her Facebook page last Wednesday that, “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. In the name of … Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.”
Speaking from her home near Palm Springs, California, Rice said, “I came to the conclusion that if I didn’t make this declaration, I was going to lose my mind.”
No, she didn’t quit Christianity, she shows she never truly believed. A disciple of His follows Him, is grieved at the actions of sinners committed in His name, but could never stop following Him on His own terms.
She said on the news she is still a follower of Christ, but not a Christian. She has mistakenly associated the word Christian with Catholic, and they are not interchangeable. You can be a Christian and Catholic, or a Protestant, or Non-Denominational. You can also be any religion and not a Christian, even though you may claim to be. A Christian follows Christ and His teachings, and believes he or she is saved by faith in Christ. People did not first start calling themselves by that name, but others, onlookers, gave it to them. When others see Christ in you, that’s when you are truly a Christian.
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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 ‘THE 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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