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Exclusive: ‘Vampire’ Author Anne Rice Explains Why She Abandoned Catholicism & the Bible

Posted on February 6, 2012 at 7:06am by Billy Hallowell
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Anne Rice Talks About Her Faith, the Bible & Her New Book The Wolf Gift

Author Anne Rice (AP)

Author Anne Rice is known for her fascinating literary works. Her first novel, “Interview With a Vampire,” published in 1976, went on to be a smash hit and a number of her books, including “Interview” were adapted for the big screen. I recently spoke with Rice, 70, about her decades-long career, her passion for writing, social media (she’s a huge fan) and, most interestingly, her journey from atheism to Catholicism to — an ambiguous faith standing.

While it was intriguing to hear Rice discuss her new book, “The Wolf Gift” (coming out on Feb. 14), her highly-successful career and her penchant for connecting with fans on social media (she has 569,865 “likes” on Facebook — and counting), it was her faith journey that was most captivating.

Knowing that Rice had announced her faith — then rescinded her Catholicism — religion was the main focus of our discussion. What was, perhaps, most striking was her ability, despite her stated confusion over her current faith views, to be open and honest. In addition to sharing candid opinions, she showed confidence in her uncertainty.

For most of her adult years, the famed author was an atheist. At the age of 18, she dismissed God‘s existence as a fallacy and didn’t change her mind until later in life. It was then in 1998 that Rice became a Catholic, surrounding herself with statues, artwork Bibles and other religious symbols. The process from non-believer to Christian adherent, she says, was a gradual one. One day, after researching and reading extensively, she finally realized that she believed wholeheartedly in God.

“I was in New Orleans and I was doing a lot of research on the Jews in history and I was so impressed with the spirituality of the Jews — the face that they still exist today,” she explains. “I fell in love with all of that and I began to see God in history. I‘m not sure there’s evidence now of God in history.”

This last line was intriguing. After studying the Jews and recognizing their historical significance and interconnectedness with a Higher Power, Rice has since abandoned such a notion.

In 2010, after 12 solid years as a believer, she announced her departure from the Catholic Church. “Today I quit being a Christian,” she wrote on her Facebook page, going on to call Christians, as a collective, a ”quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious and deservedly infamous” group. These words were surprising to many journalists, especially considering that they were coming from a woman who had so openly embraced the faith.

Here she is in a CBN interview just months before leaving Catholicism behind:

During our exchange, I asked her to explain her harsh 2010 characterization of Christians. In addition to voicing concerns with the way in which Christians treat various groups, Rice went on to say that she cannot allow herself to believe that every human being deserves hell, calling such a belief “monstrous.”

“When I walked away [from the faith], I was rejecting the whole thing. It was the whole system of Christian belief — that a remnant of people would be saved from the fire,” she said. ”I don‘t believe the God of the universe would create a place called ’hell.’”

Considering her hard-hitting departure and the rejection of the core beliefs she held dear, I asked if there was a specific breaking point that led her away from the church. At the heart of the matter was her personal distaste for the church’s teaching on abortion and gay marriage, among other issues — something she said was difficult for her from the start of her initial conversion.

“I had already come to realize that I didn’t believe in the theological underpinnings of the Christian system,” Rice explained. “I could have kept quiet and kept going to church if it had not been for the pressure exerted by things the Catholic Church was doing.”

Among these “things,” Rice cited the infamous pedophilia scandal and what she saw as a massive coverup. She maintained that “the conduct of the hierarchy was absolutely shameful.”

“There was a total disregard for American law…shifting priests rather than stopping them for what they were doing,” she continued. “The Catholics have done everything they can to confuse the issue publicly. They‘ve even stooped to level of saying priests don’t abuse more than anyone else.”

To this point, Rice said that the church should have “a zero number of abusers” and that such an insinuation — that priests aren’t any more likely than the general public to engage in molestation — was a poor defense at best.

But her reasons for leaving the church extended far beyond the sex-abuse scandal. Another issue that ate away at her was the church’s handling of homosexuals, as the famed author went on to say that the Catholic church “scapegoats gays.”

“The other thing was the relentless persecution of gay people…the vilifying of gay people,” she said. “The Catholic Church doesn‘t recognize anybody’s civil marriage and here they were coming out of their churches to stop gay people from civil marriages.”

She also went on to cite the case of Sister Margaret McBride, a Catholic nun and hospital administrator who was excommunicated by Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted after she authorized an abortion to help save a woman’s life at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. This, for Rice, was the proverbial “icing on the cake.”

“[The sick woman] was a mother of four children and she was dying in a fatal pregnancy. [The bishop] truly wanted that woman to be abandoned with that fetus,” Rice explained. “My disgust with Roman Catholicism just reached its max so I left.”

This, of course, led me to ask about her opinions about abortion — an issue that continues to be at the core of socio-political debate. While she expressed her wish that women would have their children rather than opt for abortion, she said that she doesn‘t support laws that would criminalize a woman’s right to choose. She went on to rail against many in the pro-life movement who have stood firmly opposed to abortion procedures.

“[Those opposed to abortion] don’t support contraceptive information. They’ve started a war on Planned Parenthood,” she said. “I can‘t quite believe they’re really all that concerned with human life. They’re too blind to the lives of woman involved — there’s a focus on the unborn that seems disingenuous.”

So, all this considered, where does that leave Rice today? She remains “committed to Christ.” When asked what, exactly, that means in practice, she attempted to explain:

“Everyday, I’m asking myself that, because my faith in the Christian belief system totally collapsed. I realized a lot of what I believed about Jesus was rooted in lies and falsehoods. What I’ve tried to preserve is a love for and a trust in God. Jesus coming here is the most beautiful love story I’ve ever heard.

I know I feel a palpable God — with a human face. I can’t really tell another person what I believe that is. I believe that there is a maker of the universe that knows every hair on our head — and has made this entire universe and is very aware of us and I hope and pray this maker of the universe loves us and — and I think he does.”

She characterized her current faith walk as “a state of confusion,” which, regardless of whether one agrees with her assessment of Christianity, is a bold and transparent admission.

As for the Bible, Rice no longer views it as something that should be read literally and she claims that “the maker of the universe [wouldn't] write everything down in [only] two languages in one part of the world.”

Considering these changes, Rice says she’s still looking for ways through which she can worship God. She says worshipping with others is a beautiful experience, but she has serious reservations — obviously — with associating herself with specific churches.

Rice’s faith is something that, much like her writing, has gone through intense transformation. Her formerly staunch Christians views have now dissipated, as she seeks to swim through spiritual uncertainty on a search for greater meaning.

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Comments (717)

AmericanWarrior
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:41am
Another fine example of a self-proclaimed authority on the origin & sustenance of the world & mankind… It just happened..!!.. Really..?.. Hell is Hot Anne… might want to invest in some asbestos underware!
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- Miyegombo Bayartsogt
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:21am
  Ha! Christians surely do love their hell. Christians, for all their fake loving and compassion, are awfully eager to cast their fellow humans into the firey pit so the “saved” can find endless enjoyment watching the tormented writhing sinners. I would rather send my time in hell than be trapped for an eternity with Christian sadists in some squalid, sadsack heaven. Of course, you never know. Your vengeful, spiteful, moody God might also have a sense of humor and cast all the “good Christians” into hell and save heaven for the unsaved as unsaved people aren’t so annoyingly servile.
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- zman173rd
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:51pm
  Notice how they start comming out of the woodwork like roaches? Whenever a “famous” person says “there is no ”god” all the non-believers jump on the bandwagon. I believe HELL is what you make it. If you intentionallt sinned your whole life or did things you know was wrong but made those “adjustments” and “justifications” in order to accept them within your mind, and the time comes when you meet your God. He will will accept you for all your sins because at that time you will TRULY believe (seeing is believing for the non-believers.) But you will realize then that you are unworthy of his forgivenss and love. THAT WILL BE YOUR HELL. What else would an eternity of that emptiness be but HELL?
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- Tandem2011
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:20pm
  Belief in hell and devils, like global warming, is superstition for the masses. All religions, including atheism and the Democratic Party, are based on faith in what cannot be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. In fact, the faithful fear doubt and doubters. One can have faith in a tree to grow…or faith that it will rain fruits upon them in a severe drought. But religious faith without respect for the scientific method is as blind as a toddler on the freeway. Good luck on your path to the curb, my friend.
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- Miyegombo Bayartsogt
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:38pm
  “Death is nothing to us, since when were are, death has not come, and when death comes, we are not.” Epicurus
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- attack5804
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:41pm
  Who the frig cares?
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- koyettsu
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:43pm
  I don’t like her books, she can‘t make up her mind to save her own life and honestly I really don’t care what she believes or thinks.
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- Twobyfour
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:55pm
  zman173rd, so you know too… May I ask… how did you find out how it works?
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- TomFerrari
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 3:25pm
  A “catholic” friend of mine recently explained to me that he doesn’t believe in it either. He said he does it for his wife.
  
  He went on to explain to me, that HE believes in REINCARNATION.
  He further explained WHY he believes in reincarnation…
  “Because rivers come up out of the ground.”
  “Fish and stuff.”
  
  No kidding. These were his exact words. NO TYPOS.
  Now, mind you, he is likely twice my age, but, he was also a corporate executive too!
  
  Sometimes there is just no explaining or understanding why people believe what they believe.
  And, I’m thoroughly convinced that many people do not even know WHY they believe what they believe.
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- Cousin_of_Marx
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 4:03pm
  I agree with her.
  No God, no Devil.
  No Heaven, no Hell.
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- ReynMansson
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 5:14pm
  Anne Rice is a Deist like Thomas Jefferson. But if you look at a macro-analysis of recent polls and studies on American’s Faith there is only one possible conclusion, we are a nation of Agnostics. About 25% go to church with some frequency, generally believe in their faith’s story. About 15% know they don’t believe in anything vaguely supernatural. The rest, 60% don‘t know and for the most part don’t care either.
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- Brooke Lorren
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 5:35pm
  Most Christians that I know don’t “love hell”. Many of us don’t wish it on our worst enemy. I personally prayed for Sadaam Hussein to repent within the last hour of his life, and I‘m sad to see that he didn’t repent. I admit, I’m a rather selfish person, so I don’t do all that I could do to reach others, but I do pray for others every day, help out in Sunday School, and write stuff on the internet in the hopes that maybe one person would change their minds and avoid hell some day.
  
  No, I don’t “love” hell, and I wish that nobody would ever go there. At the same time, we all are allowed free choice, and I wouldn’t want to be a robot without the ability to choose.
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- iono12345
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 6:50pm
  as opposed to the self proclaimed religious zealots, who have studied one mystical book, so all must be true, why because the book tells me it is true, glory be to the Ori…..man if I were a gigazillionaire I would make every Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and Jew travel and the experience the world and different religions….once eyes are opened the world would be a more peaceful place and humanity really would care for each other…..oh one more thing ATHEISM is not a religion it is like not collecting stamps is a hobby…
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- isit1984yet
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 6:55pm
  1. You need to reread the last part of the article. She is still learning her faith. She didn’t become an athiest again.
  
  2. Who are you to judge?
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- Kitkarr
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 7:04pm
  Can‘t speak to what is actually going on under the surface in this woman’s spirit, but it is impossible to “…quit being a Christian.”
  
  Sorry, prince of this world, this isn’t a victory. Keep trying, though, your time is running short.
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- gemmeri
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 7:38pm
  TOMFERRARI – It all sounds very basic & earthy & it cracked me up, so it can’t be all bad. I like fish & stuff is better than crap, so it must be a good thing. The river analogy is probably true, so where do I join this new religion? It must be fun & it sounds pretty simple to follow & a lot of laughs on the side. Win, win, win.
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- twain536
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:10pm
  The existence of evil PROVES the existence of God….and this woman writes about true evil whether
  fictional or not…..we see enough evil around us to confirm it exists….what an idiot.
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- zman173rd
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:21pm
  @ Twobyfour “zman173rd, so you know too… May I ask… how did you find out how it works?” I didn’t say I KNOW how it works. Do you Believe the sun will come up tomorrow? I “believe” it might work that way. Just a thought. We have our whole lives to BELIEVE what we want. People by the millions believe lies. Muslims by the millions believe in their sacrifices. I DON’T believe that only Christians are the “saved ones” A child born who never heard of Jesus and dies at an early age surley can’t be denied. Eternity is for all. Good and bad, Live your life well. Easy for me to say. I’ve been on both side of that line. I’d rather be on his good side.
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- Jstarusa
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:51pm
  Maybe she wants to be a lesbian, who knows! But to quit your faith altogether is just stupid. Seems she cant make up her mind. And remember, she writes fiction
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- maccow
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:56pm
  @Tandem
  I see in this and your other posts that you make frequent negative claims about the faithful; you call them doubters, fearful, zealots, hypocrites, and tyrants. Your spewing exhibits such a lack of understanding of people of faith and Christianity as to be laughable. But I am sure you are quite popular at the atheist clubs. Where does all this inside information on the thoughts and emotions of believers come from? Jesus was able to accurately see into men’s hearts. Are you Him? Or are you more in line with Satan who wrongly understood the heart of Christ when he tempted Jesus? Which are your writings more in line with the defender or accuser of the brethren?
  
  You say “Religious faith without the scientific method is blind” I say the scientific method without respect to a creator is hollow and empty. Prove to me that the Scientific method contains the only valid measurement for existence. If you think it is, why? Why is it more valid than other methods? Do you just take it on faith that it is?
  
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- maccow
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:58pm
  @Tandim (Continued)
  
  You seem wrapped up in the whole hell thing. Much of the modern view on hell and demons is the work of fiction writers, Hollywood, and renaissance art. Then there is actually what the bible does have to say on the subject. I will leave that to you to read on your own which I doubt you have or will do. Any competent Concordance will assist you in a relatively easy word study. Do you even know what words to look up? Let me help you get started, in Hebrew; Sheowl, and in Greek Gehenna, Tartarus, The Pit or Abyss, Outer Darkness or Exoteros Skotos. A few to start with and they all don’t have the same occupants or purposes.
  
  You seem wrapped up with what happens to the aborted babies. You could not possibly state the Christian view more incorrectly if you tried….Oh wait, maybe you are trying. The innocent life ends up in heaven, but the guilty should be and is the concern of many Christians. Wonton destruction of life is one of many paths to separating oneself from God. God never does the separating, but the individual can.
  
  Note in my response no fear no doubt, no zealotry, no hypocrisy, or tyranny. Can’t say the same for your writings.
  
  Faith in this world without respect for God is as a blind driver racing down a freeway. Good luck with reaching a happy destination. We babies will stay safely out of your way.
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:42pm
  How terribly sad that some don’t believe in HEAVEN or HELL. THEY believe in LOVE and they believe in HATE (they‘ve experienced it I’m sure) but they try to make decisions on the UNKNOWABLE… they have no proof for their claims but they want us to believe they do. They say WE don’t have any basis for believing what we believe, but they forgot about the Miracles, the relationship many of us have with GOD, the words that JESUS spoke. They’ve never read them, they have no idea of the logic and truth available.
  Women like this one, this poor demonically possessed woman are really sad. Satan doesn’t seek to kill, he seeks to corrupt. I know people who know people related to her, they disagree with her too. Is this a publicity stunt? new book coming out? Could be; but she’s chosen to write about EVIL in a glamorous way, that’s evil in and of itself. Whatever ANNE. I’m focusing on getting information to people who really want to know about GOD. People who mock Him or Jesus will just have to get in the back of the line. MARANATHA!!!
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- snooop1e
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:56pm
  Martin Luther was no different, he couldn’t cope with the reality of God and being judged for his sins to the point that he finally broke down and declared that faith “alone” is all that is necessary to be saved (despite the fact that Jesus nor any of the Apostles ever taught that) Then he added the word “alone” to his translation of the Bible in Romans 3:28. Instead of praying to God for understanding and to be led into all truth he divorced himself from the church and recreated God in his own likeness and image. A God that he could better understand and cope with. Scripture is clear that God is a just God and Jesus will separate the sheep from the goats based on how we have lived our lives. We will be judged according to our deeds, according to whether or not we clothed the naked, cared for the sick, visited the imprisoned and fed the hungry. Jesus told us whatsoever we do to the least of His brothers that we do unto Him. Scripture is clear that homosexual sex acts are an abomination to God and anyone who denies this will have to answer to God on judgement day. I pray that we all will turn to God and put our faith and hope in His Son Jesus Christ. God Bless
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- MetalPatriot
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 11:40pm
  She’s my 2nd favorite fiction writer. From the beginning (Interview w/ Vamp) the struggle to find God/Truth was a dominant theme. Very cool. Yes, there were lots of negative/sinful traits of mankind. If your a saint…maybe not for you. But, as a writer she is way more captivating that Koontz or King. All a matter of taste (muhahahaa!).
  
  My other comment below is ample reply to other issues presented by other posts.
  
  Carry on! ; )
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- John Valentine
  Posted on February 7, 2012 at 8:36am
  I believe that God tends toward libertarianism. He states what is right and what is wrong. He states that there is a heaven and a hell, and that people who do wrong risk going to hell. Furthermore, he tells people it is their vocation to correct people who do wrong. He then leaves it up to people to do what is right, to live and act correctly, to correct neighbors when they risk hell. This is a good God!
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- qbulb
  Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:14pm
  I see many are saying in varying degrees there is no hell of literal fire burning eternally. I don’t blame you. No one, and certainly not I, can feel comfortable about such a horrific place. BUT WHAT IF THERE IS A HELL? You do have a choice, if there is a hell, as to whether you will reside their or not.
  
  There is a series of videos at UTube where 5 men tell of dieing and coming back to life. These men, at the time of their experiences, did not know each other. Some saw heaven but ALL saw hell. ARE ALL THESE MEN LYING? Please don’t tell me that medicine made them hallucinate because some were not on any meds. At utube, Search TO HELL AND BACK, RAWLINGS and watch their mesmerizing stories. ARE THEY ALL LYING?? Yes or No. No buts.
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- zman173rd
  Posted on February 7, 2012 at 7:13pm
  The more I think about it the more I THINK we’re being duped. I THINK she was of this mindset BEFORE she decided to become catholic. She was getting family values on both side of the isle. She played the people while making her dough, then got to the point where her popularity would carry here past the critisism of falling from grace. She’s a liar. She has motive, she made her money from the children of both the non-religious and religious alike. I’ve never watched her movies or read one of her books. Are we really that stupid to think that she would find herself then find herself again and not be more believable about why? Most lairs are contradictory. Read her with some skeptisism and see past her shallow explanations. Most here know I don’t quote bible verses or claim to have answers. But I THINK she has suckers instead of followers.
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- Patriot Z
  Posted on February 7, 2012 at 9:30pm
  come on really? you are telling me that god is such a narrcissist that if you dont accept everything said in a boopk written by man, he not only abandon you but cause you pain forever? that makes no sense people. jesus wanted a personal replationship with god, not more of the “believe what i do cause only I” know what god wants” Thae catholic church as an institution(just like most organized religions) do a fantastic job of protecting their interests at the cost of others. AR brough of some decent points! the church has managed to mishandel soe major problems. she dosent have to believe in your religion to heaven. and as i said before in other posts, i have no use for a god(s) who sole goal gor me is to kiss their asses, in life just to do it in the afterlife too. seems to defeat the whoe free will thing
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objectivetruth
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:40am
Thank God.A breath of fresh air for the truly faithul.Folks God doesn’t ask anyone to practice any religion.That is a man made set of rituals designed for mans control.Her true faith is why she can no longer follow mans churchs.The reason she finds the customs distasteful is very simple.God may have inspired man to write the bible.However, man still wrote it.Its cloaked in mans sin and human frailities.Ever wonder why no book was written until years after christs death?This is why.If the true living god had of directly inspired it I think it would have been written at the time his son was on earth.
Eureka she has hit the higher plain of faith.Keep up the faith Mrs.Rice.
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- CryptoCop
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:05am
  You think she has hit a “higher plane”? Seriously? She’s doing nothing more than repeating the same lie that was uttered in the Garden of Eden… “God didn’t say you will surely die….” She is deluded and hell bound. Truth is truth, whether you believe it, or not.
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- Luke21
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:12am
  Classic Romans 1 – she’s turned the Glory of the incorruptible God into the image of corruptible man (an image of her own “beliefs”). Believing God is no better than mankind & perverting His Holiness & His Gospel, failing to recognize the predicament of man & the absolute necessity of the atonement.
  
  [“The other thing was the relentless persecution of gay people…the vilifying of gay people,” she said. “The Catholic Church doesn‘t recognize anybody’s civil marriage..”]
  
  Oh what persecution! They won’t recognize “marriage” between two men?! What’s next, will the hypocrites NOT recognize euthanasia of the elderly & sick – denied health care for the “good of society” or the open promotion of pedophilia (or are the pedophiles excluded from the “born this way” argument…for now)? While the clergy scandal is an abomination before God, at least they recognize it as wrong & call it shameful – which is a lot more than most in this hedonistic society.
  
  Perhaps she should join the episcopal “church”, they’re at least “enlightened” enough to know God didn’t really mean it when He said He created them man & woman to be joined as one in marriage (Genesis 2, Matthew 19, Mark 10) & that he who murders man, by man his blood shall be required of him for in God’s image He made man (Genesis 9:6).
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- Luke21
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:13am
  @Objectivetruth Cont.
  
  [she cannot allow herself to believe that every human being deserves hell, calling such a belief “monstrous.”…I was rejecting the whole thing…”I don‘t believe the God of the universe would create a place called ’hell.’…I hope and pray this maker of the universe loves us and — and I think he does]
  
  Would that be the same love Ms. Rice has for the unborn? Of course she’d rather they didn’t – how big of her. Is it right or wrong? If it is a matter of personal choice then why ever wish it to be limited?! Talk about a hypocrite! Her own conscience convicts her!
  
  God does love all, HOWEVER His love saves NO one. It is His grace that saves through the atonement (substitutionary sacrifice of Christ on the Cross) that saves a man. (John 3, Ephesians 2)
  
  [Considering these changes, Rice says she’s still looking for ways through which she can worship God.]
  
  Try satan — he’s still accepting followers & agrees w/ you “Did God really say…? You will not surely die.” (Genesis 3)
  
  This is madness – her problem (which is quite a popular one) – to be looking for God in religion, in relics, in traditions, and one’s own self-styled righteousness, & leading to the damnation of countless millions. Yet if she would just read the Bible, take God at His word, & seek His face — she’d find Him (Proverbs 8:17, Jeremiah 29:13). She would recognize her predicament — a sinner that cannot save herself.
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- Luke21
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:14am
  @Objectivetruth? Cont.
  
  This she has in common w/ Christ: JESUS is pro-choice! He said “I am the way, the truth, and the life. NO ONE comes to the Father EXCEPT through Me.” (John 14:6) He’ll let you decide whether to believe Him or not. However we will suffer the consequence of our choice – just like the aborted baby – and NO one in the Bible spoke more on the subject of Hell than did Christ.
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- Reformed
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:25am
  Uh…The Old Testament was written before Christ’s death.
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- poverty.sucks
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:29am
  She characterized her current faith walk as “a state of confusion,” which, regardless of whether one agrees with her assessment of Christianity, is a bold and transparent admission.
  
  As for the Bible, Rice no longer views it as something that should be read literally and she claims that “the maker of the universe [wouldn't] write everything down in [only] two languages in one part of the world.”
  
  When you fail to teach from the Holy Bible as God commands, you then fail your audience. The Catholic Church is a disservice.
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- pennswoods
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:37am
  That‘s the same as saying we shouldn’t have man made government, laws, courts, the police and the symbols which represent those institutions and concepts. These organizations by their power and symbols have authority over our lives, keep order in society, and make people responsible for their conduct. I am no Biblical scholar but isn’t the Gospel of Mark the oldest Gospel dated to about 60 AD? That’s about 27 years after the death of Jesus and all the events in his life. That’s easily within the lifetime of people who remembered those events to have either wriitten about them or told them to a scribe.
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- rowanrobert
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 10:01am
  Well the Bible and Organized religion are frauds..They are tools used to enslave the peoples minds and for profit!
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- dealer@678
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 10:07am
  How sad. She comitted the ONLY unpardonable sin.
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- Twinspeedr
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 10:20am
  It’s amazing how these “smart” people could be so stupid. There is more evidence than ever to validate the historicity of the Bible. It is the only Scripture that does not attempt to glorify one author. Where else do you have something written by 40 authors over the course of thousands of years where the message is verifiably consistent throughout. Of course you actually need to READ it to see this. If you are adrift in your faith, assuring yourself that you don’t need to read the Scripture because you already know it, you are indeed lost.
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- The_Almighty_Creestof
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 10:21am
  Years ago –before 1996 it seems, when Anne became a Catholic– I went to her website as I was a fan of her books and wanted to learn more about her. Before I could enter though, it asked me to check a box to confirm and agree to something. It was not in regards to internet security, or my age, no…it asked me to click, agree and confirm that I would sell my soul to the devil in order to enter the site.
  
  I exited out and never went back. I was still a fan of her books…but no longer had any desire to learn more about her.
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- SafeguardOurLiberty
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 10:36am
  Agree. To live your life by a book that contradicts itself in many areas, to live your life by rules of churches that men made is not faith. God gave us the ten commandments, those are his laws. Jesus gave us the golden rule, love one another as i love you and treat others as you would want to be treated. This is how you spread God’s love. Not through laws made by man that promote hate, discrimination, and that judge others. God’s love is not evident in those laws.
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- Locked
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 10:37am
  @Penn
  
  Oddly, I posted a response to your comment before, but it never posted. I must have used a forbidden word by accident.
  
  “I am no Biblical scholar but isn’t the Gospel of Mark the oldest Gospel dated to about 60 AD?”
  
  Traditionally, Mark is considered the earliest. However, at least some of it has to have been written post-70AD (as it references the destruction of the Second Temple, which happened that year). It’s also considered by many scholars to be source materials for Luke and Matthew, pushing their dates back as well (though parts of Luke are considered to be from 59-60AD). John is the latest, compiled in the final decade of the first century.
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- ChiefGeorge
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 10:39am
  We are under grace but the laws are still valid just as Jesus said he had not come to change them. Faith in anything outside Jesus as the Messiah is a false belief system designed to lead the sheep away from true Holy Spirit dispensed in our time.
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- scruffycat
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 10:44am
  Way to go Ann. Social anything is corrosive. You do not need all those loonies in church that want to screw little boys or screw multiple wives or any of that other loonie crap they try to justify in the name of God. Its a one on one relationship with God. You do not need a church or to be socializing with lunatics. You were given a brain. USE IT
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- ashestoashes
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 10:55am
  The Bible is the work of the Holy Spirit of God and His words are infallible.. I don’t know much about how the Catholic Church operates..but I know that Jesus is the judge..not us..he lays out the laws..and he expects us to be obedient..but He is also forgiving if we ask epent and turn away from our sins.. As for Ms Rice..I suspect that she may have come under persecution for her Vampire books.. As I understand..anything of the occult..is a gateway for demons to enter..just like drugs. If one wants to keep demons out of one’s life. they need to abstain.
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- TH30PH1LUS
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 11:31am
  Anne Rice,
  
  In some ways you have hit upon a truth within “American” christianity – in that moral corruption has decayed many in leadership. Many call themselves “christian”, and do not reflect Christ in their choices about the way they live or in the expressions of love. Also, if believers would express unity and love and solidarity more than doctrinal bickering, our testimony would shake the doubts of he entire world. Jesus prayed, “…that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.”
  
  On the other hand, you express a desire to cling to your own wisdom as superior to that of God. You also cast doubts upon the Holy Scripture …. because of the languages it was written in?! Really? I find Hebrew & Greek to be an AMAZING choice by God for the languages of the Bible:
  a) Hebrew is an “open” language which captures the passion and poetry of God.
  b) Greek is a specific (almost scientific) language which reveals the mind and wisdom of God.
  
  Anne, I pray that you would find stable solid ground for your journey of faith. Jesus said “I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.” And also, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.”
  
  I’m praying for your return to faith and to the Word of God.
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- Jaycen
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 11:55am
  I just wanted to poin out the fact that without religion, specifically Christianity, her books and her fortune would not exist.
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- maccow
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 11:58am
  @Safeguard
  “To live your life by a book that contradicts itself in many areas” (“Has God indeed said…” Genesis 3:1) Okay so you don’t believe the bible is the infallible word of God. Then what good is it at all? You go on to cite the Ten Commandments and Jesus’ teachings, but what are those to you if God is not able to use men to present them in His perfect time and order. (Bible = Infallible in their original manuscripts. Translations to new languages = more homework for the believer = not God’s problem)
  
  “to live your life by rules of churches that men made is not faith.” I kind of agree with you to a point here, and isn’t this Mrs. Rice’s problem, too much fixation on man’s religion and a lost focus on the work of God through Christ? But in perpetuating the new aged lie that all man needs is the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount, you are setting up your own man made religious doctrines.
  By claiming which of God’s laws you accept and which you judge to be lacking in evidence of God’s love, you place you’re man centered view above the word of God. You make yourself the arbiter of God’s love, in a sense you make yourself god. What is the difference between the religion you espouse and the religion of Ann Rice’s that you reject? They are both distractions, from the true plan of God for the life of the individual believer.
  
  Stop picking and choosing which things of God you will accept, and allow God to be God in your life. T
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- JEANNIEMAC
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:05pm
  For Catholics and those who might want to learn more about the Catholic faith, the book, “Catholicism” is a wonderful “journey to the heart of the Faith” Father Barron “delights in the ways our faith puts flesh on the Word. He tells us stories, He shows on every page that those who call Catholicism a “system” are mistaken. It’s a living Body” Father Barron visited 50 locations in over fifteen countries to show how the Faith was spread by the Apostles. He is responsible for a ten part series that has been shown on television. Ms. Rice needs the guidance of someone such as Father Barron.
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- jb.kibs
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:09pm
  i’m not sure if there EVER has been evidence of vampires…
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- stephenb.net
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:32pm
  Luke21, nicely done. Here is another angle. Ms. Rice calimed to be a believer yet she made her wealth by glorifying the darkness and not the light. Faith without works is dead…If a person is a true believer their actions would follow their beliefs. How could a person write such evil while claiming to be a Christian? Ms. Rice is decieved and her life is a sorry example of that deception. What profits a man (or woman) if he gains the world but loses their soul? That is the qestion that Ms. Rice should consider when cashing the checks from her book royalties.
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- maccow
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:42pm
  Here is a lie of this world that even Mrs Rice is falling for.
  
  Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)
  
  All of these indictments are in the present and active tense meaning not those who have ever done these things, but those who are living these life styles will not inherit the kingdom. This is not an exhaustive list, we can find the same thing said about every known sin under the sun. I can’t say that I have been born again by the sacrifice of Christ and then continue my Jeffrey Dahmer hobby (he murdered and ate his victims). I’m not saying homosexuality is equivalent here, but it is a life style that separates the participant from God and this not of God’s choosing. I can’t murder or lie, or purposefully cheat and steal, and convince myself that I am honoring God. My choices would be separating me from God, but not God from me. That’s why God highlights some of these life styles. Not out of hate but out of love and a desire for reconciliation.
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- maccow
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:49pm
  (Continued)
  Men have recently chosen, partly for political purposes, partly by Satan, (but where’s the difference) to paint devout Christians as Homophobes. In as much as I don’t want anyone separated from the love of God in Christ, then call me a homocide-aphobe, theft-aphobe, perjury-aphobe, covet-aphobe, etc. Some of these phobias I have in my own life, and I hate them in me as much as anything else. But society misrepresents this everyday for the purpose of drawing men away from the love and forgiveness that is in Christ alone that will reconcile them to their creator. What I hate in me Christ died for so I could overcome it.
  If anger, hate, jealousy, greed, and yes even homosexuality, define who you are, then where is there room for the definition “follower of Christ”? Jesus doesn’t want to be number one on a list of ten things that define you, He wants to be number one on a list of one.
  
  I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the [life] which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. (Galatians 2:20)
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- getalong
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:03pm
  The problem with Ms. Rice is that she allowed in satan by involving herself in the occult. When you look at her eyes they look dead like her charactors in her books.
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- RabidPatriot
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:27pm
  Any organized religion that has a government style hierarchy or has developed its own rules or legal system is just using religion to control people. If you are a Christian, shed the chains of religious bondage and find a church that sticks to Christ’s teachings. Christ’s message is simple and you do not need a guy in a fancy dress to interpret it for you.
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- maccow
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:46pm
  @Jeaninmac
  With all due respect, i‘m sure Father Barron’s book is great and all, but you are offering someone who is starving on MANwiches more man food. What Mrs. Rice is crying out for is the Bread of Life. Can you not offer her a scripture, a passage, an entire book of the bible to feast on to fill her longing hunger? Or does the Catholic Liturgy not equip you to point to anything but the enlightened men of the cloth. I am not disparaging the writings of men on the things of God, but this story just screams “Stop looking to men for your answers and look to The word of God.” The fact that you can read Mrs. Rice‘s plight and see a solution in the writings of a priest demonstrates the absolute loss of touch with where God want’s His church to focus their attentions. Its on HIM.
  Much of organized religion says “We are the way to the truth and the life” while Jesus says “I am the way, the truth and the life.”
  Mrs. Rice; Understand Habakuk 2:4 “The just shall live by faith” by reading Romans, which explains how the believer is Justified. Then Galatians, which teaches how believers shall live, then Hebrews which teaches how the believer is to live by Faith. All three New Testament books Quote Habakuk 2:4. accept that Jesus died for you and then Pray that the God whom you serve will send you His Spirit to enlighten His word to your heart. As you walk this road ignore the wisdom of all the MACCOW‘s and JEANINMAC’s and Father Barron’s of the world and hear from God
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- Briggston
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:32pm
  Funny how they can say that all religion is false based on their biased opinion without any evidence to support their claim.(and please don’t mention evolution you will only embarrass yourself, as someone who seriously investigated it during my own soul searching evolutionists are as blindly bigoted and ignorant as they accuse any religious believer of being). So God doesn’t create religion. Well then you have to call Christ, Muhammad, Moses, Siddhārtha Gautama (The Buddha) and all religious texts liars.Just declare your an atheist. If your belief is in GOD from organized religion to agnostic you have to except the possibility that God inspired someone and revealed himself to that person. and that if their is truth to religion at all then confusion or multiple ways to God is merely the delusions of cowards who refuse to exercise faith enough to find the truth. Christ cannot be the savior and Muhammad be right,Judaism if it is true that the messiah has not come yet then Christ was an imposter. Can’t have it all ways people. But God can lead bit by bit people to a fullness of truth. All major religions have an account of the fall from paradise, A Major world Flood ( The Hindus is very interesting). Even religions with now past influence by monotheistic religions. The Olmec legends tell of how their people sailed to the the ancient america’s in caves after being scattered from a great tower.(See Babel). If you want I can provide you the ignorance of the evolution theory as
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- RRFlyer
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:14pm
  She Has NO faith. what are you talking about?
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- Luke21
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:56pm
  @Locked
  
  “Traditionally, Mark is considered the earliest. However, at least some of it has to have been written post-70AD (as it references the destruction of the Second Temple, which happened that year). . John is the latest, compiled in the final decade of the first century.”
  
  Your logic re: the late dating of the gospels based on the prophecy given by Christ is the same circular reasoning laid down by all the liberals who start off w/ the hypothesis that the Word of God cannot be true, then contort their “findings” to agree w/ their supposition. For if Mark was written before 70 AD then Jesus’ prophecy was in fact…prophecy. It’s the same nonsense that the liberal “scholars” use to late date Daniel. They say it (or great parts of it) had to be written after the fall of the Greek empire (for how else could he have “known” about it?). Problem is, he also prophesied about the rise, splitting apart, & “resurrection” of the Roman empire. Here’s a thought – Daniel, Matthew, Mark, Luke, & John wrote about things to come because God revealed it to them. Your own argument falls apart w/ John (by your testimony written last – I think you confuse the date of the Revelation w/ his gospel). Why was John the only gospel writer that did NOT mention Jesus’ prophecy (in either his gospel or Revelation)? He obviously knew the event had taken place. It is amazing how Scripture always anticipates these fallacious arguments – it’s as if the B
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- MetalPatriot
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 11:34pm
  @Objective
  
  Agreed. It seems most just respond without reading the article or listen to the interview.
  
  She discussed HER journey/experience. She didn’t declare she has absolute knowledge or absolute truth…
  
  I’m sure all the critics here have had the “perfect conversion” and live a truly Christ centered life: as per the severe criticisms and displays of their particular brand of biblical knowledge (which, I can assure you, was just something that somebody else told them to think/believe). Even those rare few that may have some knowledge of the Greek or Aramaic languages are doubtfully fluent enough to get the full meaning from the Scriptures.
  
  @everybody else
  
  Enjoy your hypocrisy…the Lord is well pleased. (sacrcasm)
  
  @everybody else
  
  Keep on judging and “believing” you know what is right and that your own actions are righteous in the eyes of God.
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- Locked
  Posted on February 7, 2012 at 8:03am
  @Luke
  
  “Your logic re: the late dating of the gospels based on the prophecy given by Christ is the same circular reasoning laid down by all the liberals who start off w/ the hypothesis that the Word of God cannot be true”
  
  The argument in question is dating the compilation of the Gospels. You can’t argue “prophecy!” when you’re trying to argue “history.”
  
  Also, no idea what you mean by people who say “The Word of God cannot be true.” I‘ll say what I’ve always said: the Bible is not infallible (as it was written by men, translated over time, and the final cuts and selections were made centuries after the life of Christ), but the people who most claim it to be often seem to be using the worst translations (ie, the King James Version).
  
  Them’s the facts.
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- Luke21
  Posted on February 7, 2012 at 9:33am
  The only “Them’s the facts” is that your reasoning is circular. And you provide no authoritative source for your statements (e.g. regarding translations – as though you’re some learned scholar in ancient Hebrew, Greek, linguistic translation, & ancient biblical manuscripts). For every 1 of your “experts” that late date the gospels – there’s a 1000 that disagree.
  
  Your own silly argument re: 70AD is STILL less than 40 yrs after the crucifixion – there were EYEWITNESSES still alive at that time – just as there are eyewitnesses to the events around Kennedy’s assassination still alive today. So if the NT was just a group of men contriving to put together a story to deceive its audience, there were plenty still alive to say “hogwash”. Yet nearly every one of the “authors” was willingly executed for their teachings. While a man may be deceived into dying for a lie that he believes to be true, NO man will willingly die for something he knows to be false.
  
  Your arguments are shallow & not thought through, filled w/ unsubstantiated statements of opinion as fact. You choose to believe that which you’ve purposed (set out) to believe – (that is what I meant by “the liberals who start off w/ the hypothesis that the [Bible] cannot be [Word of God], then contort their “findings” to agree w/ their supposition. But then I think you knew that, you just chose not to see it). I stand by what I wrote. I believe you to be blind – willfully so.
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- Luke21
  Posted on February 7, 2012 at 9:36am
  @ Locked
  
  The only “Them’s the facts” is that your reasoning is circular. And you provide no authoritative source for your statements (e.g. regarding translations – as though you’re some learned scholar in ancient Hebrew, Greek, linguistic translation, & ancient biblical manuscripts). For every 1 of your “experts” that late date the gospels – there’s a 1000 that disagree.
  
  Your own silly argument re: 70AD is STILL less than 40 yrs after the crucifixion – there were EYEWITNESSES still alive at that time – just as there are eyewitnesses to the events around Kennedy’s assassination still alive today. So if the NT was just a group of men contriving to put together a story to deceive its audience, there were plenty still alive to say “hogwash”. Yet nearly every one of the “authors” was willingly executed for their teachings. While a man may be deceived into dying for a lie that he believes to be true, NO man will willingly die for something he knows to be false.
  
  Your arguments are shallow & not thought through, filled w/ unsubstantiated statements of opinion as fact. You choose to believe that which you’ve purposed (set out) to believe – (that is what I meant by “the liberals who start off w/ the hypothesis that the [Bible] cannot be [Word of God], then contort their “findings” to agree w/ their supposition. But then I think you knew that, you just chose not to see it). I stand by what I said. I believe you to be blind – willfull
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- another mimi
  Posted on February 7, 2012 at 10:45am
  Yes, Objectivetruth, How can all these various religions and “holy books” be anything except man made institutions? We mainly believe what we’re indoctrinated to believe – i.e., the particular religion we’ve been brought up in. The major denominations conflict with each other in many ways, and there are conflicts of belief even within each — for example Protestantism, Islam, Judaism have subsets in them which contradict other subsets. However, almost all religions have a few things in common — “Golden Rule”! – so that may be something we can define as a TRUTH.
  
  There have been many different “gods” throughout history. No one believes in Zeus today, but had we been alive a couple of 1000 yrs. ago in ancient Greece, we’d believe in Zeus, wouldn’t we?
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- Locked
  Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:27am
  @Luke
  
  Hey, it’s your argument, not mine. You argue that it was written before 70AD because it was prophecy; I say it was written after due to historical fact and the language used (the style and writing went to lengths to appeal to a Roman audience).
  
  “You choose to believe that which you’ve purposed (set out) to believe – (that is what I meant by “the liberals who start off w/ the hypothesis that the [Bible] cannot be [Word of God], then contort their “findings” to agree w/ their supposition.”
  
  You’ve done the exact same. If you’re taking the polar opposite position (everything in the Bible is 100% literal and infallible), then it must be a prophecy, as you can’t conceive of Mark being written after 70AD. Whereas my position is more “wishy-washy”; I can fully accept that during the war starting in 66 AD and onward, the writer of Mark could predict the result of the rebellion would be destruction of the Second Temple. It’s more likely that it happened after (just because of how the gospel‘s language appeals to Romans and lays the blame for Jesus’s death on the Jews rather than Pilate), but in the years leading up to it, destruction became an evermore likely response.
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Chris Robinson
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:40am
can we get stories about other famous “converts?” Like say Bob Dylan or Charlie Daniels?
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- Lonescrapper
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:38am
  Gladys Knight…
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- by faith
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 10:52am
  Try this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_converted_to_Catholicism
  Not a good source for stories about these people, more of a list of names.
  Names like: G.K. Chesterton, Gary Cooper, Tony Blair, John Wayne, Tony Snow, John Henry Newman, Heinrich Schlier, J R R Tolkien
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poker4livin
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:38am
“I moved away in search of the modern world”…it’s realistic to be an atheist (socially in modern times)

Revations and Daniel speak of people who will lose there faith in end times she’s no exception to biblical prophecy, just another lost soul. The Lord will look far harsher on people like this as they once had faith and to know good and sin continually is worse than not knowing your a sinner. Also you don’t ever lose your faith you can simply never have true faith to begin with. The holy spirit comes into only once you truly believe and works miracles in your life and grows faith it may lie dorment if you ignore it but it doesn’t leave you, you can be invaded by deamons eventually which she clearly has or she never had spirit truly to begin with. The Lord Rebuke her.
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- Miyegombo Bayartsogt
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:42am
  Your God sounds like a serial killer with a grudge who not only murders people but also has the power to torture them after they are dead. No wonder you are scared of such an evil creation. It sounds like a horrible creature. It must drive you absolutely mad trying to believe in such a thing.
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- RonmeyPaulBotsrOdd
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 10:23am
  I guess we will all have to wait to see…til then – I believe. She must have had a financial downturn and now trying to not only draw attention, but increase sales.
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- RavenGlenn
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 11:47am
  So…this God will look down his nose and judge harshly the people that don’t do as he wishes, despite him never directly giving any confirmation that it is what he wishes? So when the church issued holy wars in the past, if you believed it was wrong to break a few sins…like…oh…I don’t know…Thou shall not kill…then he is going to toss you aside to burn in hell for all eternity?
  
  And then, of course, if you don’t go to church every Sunday, you meet the exact same fate of those that murder, molest children(oh wait…no. That’s okay if you are a priest!), steal, etc?
  
  And people wonder why folks don’t believe. It’s because it sounds totally ridiculous. On one hand, believers talk about how their God is a kind and loving God who just wants his children to learn and grow, etc…that he gave everyone free will so that they may flourish. But then, they tell you that if you exercise your free will and refuse to follow a specific organized religion, that you will burn in hell and suffer as according to God’s will.
  
  I’m sorry, but I absolutely refuse to believe that the same God that loves everyone and gave everyone free will would suddenly punish everyone for doing what he gave them the ability to do. That‘s akin to putting food down for your cat and telling them they can’t have it. Then, as soon as the cat goes for the food, you kill it.
  
  Idiotic.
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- KAdams
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:48pm
  Here is the entirety of the free will argument: You accept God, or you reject him. Period. Now, once you reject him, you can do whatever your little heart desires. That doesn’t mean, however, that you aren’t subject to the consequences of your actions.
  
  Conscience seared with a hot iron?
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- Twobyfour
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 3:20pm
  God is not your judge. At the moment you meet him, you are given the capacity to see your life and deeds in many contexts. You, yourself are the judge. There is no way to weasel out of anything there, because your capacity to see and judge is not impaired by biases, nor by ad hoc rule set–you know exactly what the universal rules are. God will always forgive you, but you won’t.
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- anointedpsalmist.org
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 3:39pm
  I am a Christian because I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ (Yeshua) My faith is in him not in people. (Christian professing people) have lied and hurt me and deceived me. I have gone to churchs where there are hypocrites and people that are nasty and judgmental. The result is I have only drawn closer to my first love, the one who allowed them to spit in his face and rip out his beard for me, the one who became my sin, the one who loved me when I was in darkness when I didn’t deserve love. The world needs to hear that God loves them and has a plan for their life. It is his goodness that will draw them. That is his word and he does not lie. Anyone can call themself a Christian but according to the Bible there should be certain things apparent. His nature demonstrated through us -Read Galathians 5. The first fruit is love. Yeshua (Jesus) ate with the sinners and cleansed the lepers. He railed against the Pharisees. Anne Rice has experienced religion and she has met a lot of Pharisees and she has been disallusioned but she is still searching because there is an empty hole in her that only her heavenly Father can fill. The Bible says if we say we are not sinners we deceive ourselves (Ref 1st Jo 1v8) Until we receive a supernatural touch from heaven and become born from again we are all blinded (Ref 2nd Cor 4 v) When we have a real encounter with the living God we realize he is love and we can’t help know
  Calvary Was All Because Of ME
  http://youtu.be/6j6oX92
- anointedpsalmist.org
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 3:47pm
  I am a Christian because I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ (Yeshua) My faith is in him not in people. (Christian professing people) have lied and hurt me and deceived me. I have gone to churchs where there are hypocrites and people that are nasty and judgmental. The result is I have only drawn closer to my first love, the one who allowed them to spit in his face and rip out his beard for me, the one who became my sin and curse, the one who loved me when I was in darkness when I didn’t deserve love. The world needs to hear that same God loves them and has a plan for their life. It is his goodness that will draw them. That is his word and he does not lie. Anyone can call themself a Christian but according to the Bible there should be certain things apparent. His nature demonstrated through us Read Galathians 5. The first fruit is love. Yeshua (Jesus) ate with the sinners and cleansed the lepers. He railed against the Pharisees. Anne Rice has experienced religion and she has met a lot of Pharisees and she has been disallusioned but she is still searching because there is an empty hole in her that only her heavenly Father can fill. The Bible says if we say we are not sinners we deceive ourselves (Ref 1st Jo 1v8) Until we receive a supernatural touch from heaven and become born from again we are all blinded (Ref 2nd Cor 4 v) When we have a real encounter with the living God we realize Calvary Was All Because Of ME I certainly did
  http://youtu.be/6j6oX92PyZQ
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enochsoames
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:32am
I dunno about Christians in general, but the nasty, mean-spirited comments about Rice I‘m seeing here tend to confirm Rice’s assessment of Christians as ‘quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious and deservedly infamous.’ There are some ugly minds on display here.
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- objectivetruth
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:51am
  Yeah I agree with you.I avoid these people, like the plague ,in the real world.They are actually dangerous to ones faith,health happiness and prosperity.They have no compunction about destroying your life in order to force you into believing in there religions.Its not just christians, its all of them.
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- JoJoStarbuck173
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 10:00am
  Well said. For a group that professes to embrace love and forgiveness there is certainly a large number of christians that are eager to hate and destroy anyone that doesnt think the same as they do. The hypocrisy of organized religion is disgusting.
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- 2gether
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 11:16am
  I cannot speak for other Christians but as followers of Jesus the Christ, we do defend and support scripture. Religion is structural worship of our God and our Savior. Life has always been defined from conception till death, by the Catholic faith and other Christian religions. If you were to tell a couple, that has been trying to get pregnant for over three years that the fertilized egg in the mother-to-be’s uterus is a clump of cells, or if she were to lose that embryo 4-8-12 weeks into the pregnancy, I think you would sound pathetic attempting to validate a claim that it was not the death of a baby, with the parents. A tenet is a tenet and it is obvious from some of the nonchristian posts here…(ie: refering to God as a serial killer and eternal torturer) that many of you are bigotted in your thoughts and comments.
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- Mtroom
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 11:32am
  My faith is mine and only mine..It has been shaped by many, but lived by no other….For my path is mine..Others may cross my path and even meet on my path, but in the end, I will continue on my path alone..To stray from my path, is no fault of another, for I am the one who took those steps..It remains up to me and me only to find my way back…Keep the faith, because it is yours…GOD bless, and may your path be true.
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- KAdams
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:59pm
  @Objective
  Not really. Why would I want to discuss this with someone that has their ears stoppered up with football, and their eyes blinded to everything but the TV? Why waste my time? I’m not going to force you to try and believe anything. Whether you believe or not, is between you and God. I will always do what I can, but I can’t force you into anything. If God won’t do it, why should I?
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Detroit paperboy
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:32am
There are 7 children in my family, all of us attended Catholic schools…… None of us are Catholic today……people have left in droves over the last forty years….the growth plan for the Catholics, is the Hispanic Community…..
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- The Jewish Avenger
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:23am
  After a few short years the aggressive media exposure of the alleged pedophiles in the Church made it extremely difficult to call yourself a Catholic in public. MSM put such a spin on it that even people who were dead and gone that were revered in the cities could claim, he hurt me, and with no proof, would remove any awards or acknowledgement of his name. People arent stupid, they know when a ship is sinking. There are some strong footed and well grounded people that are still in the Church sadly, these are the people that society made darn sure that you be afraid of and look at as “outdated.“ Remember when people call Churches ”Hospitals” because of the influx of people that they draw in? Prisoners, Addicts, Abusers and Lost people just to start the list. When the very place they are seeking refuge and healing and all the HERE is. “Dont go there, its full of pedophiles! Listen to my dirty joke about them, why.. “THEY ARE WORSE THAN MICHAEL JACKSON.” Even in some states, prison ministry has been removed due to these accusations. Yes, there were some accused pedophiles, but to prosecute them all is like saying all gays should be prosecuted for they are atheistic and against the Church.
  
  As far as Hispanics, especially the Mexicans, it is understandable why they would take this route: They are old school, they have struggled, and their faith is intact. And the second anyone attacks them, even the left and MSM defend them. Its a shoe-in that they are the founda
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- pennswoods
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:46am
  Large numbers of people, as many as 50% or more, have also left the mainline liberal Protestant Chruches in droves since the late 1960′s. They have left to join the Evangelical Churches, the Catholic Church, and Orthodox Churches. I am Roman Catholic in my late 60′s and I know of lots of people who have left the Church since Vatican II. I also know many who have returned and a lot of Protestants who have discovered what many cradle Catholics obviously never grasped: that the Catholic Church, Latin and Orthodox, is the true Church of Jesus with unbroken historical and spiritual links back to the original Church founded by Jesus at Pentecost.
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- by faith
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 10:39am
  The latest statistics from the National Councll of Churches, whose annual Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches always has interesting info on who’s adding members and who is not.
  Roman Catholics, the nation’s largest Christian denomination, grew 1.49 percernt to 68 million members. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1.71 percent to 5.8 million members and the Assemblies of God grew 1.27 percent to 2.8 million members.
  Others claiming growth incluce the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Church of God in Cleveland, Tenn., both at 1 million members.
  The Southern Baptists, though, registered their second straight year of losses as being down .24 percent to 16.2 million. Even so, they are still the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. They are doing well compared to certain others, such as the Presbyterian Church USA, which is down 3.28 percent to 2.9 million members; the American Baptists are down 2 percent to 1.3 million and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is down 1.92 percent to 4.7 million.
  Overall membership in church is up .49 percent in 2010 to 147.3 million; just under half of the American population.
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- yiska8
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:39pm
  @Pennswood. Thank You. I think Anne Rice tried out being Catholic for a while and went like the mother in “Carrie”. I love saints and crucifixes and paintings of Jesus, I grew up with them. Candles always lit to remember loved ones or for prayers. I think Anne Rice is realizing that faith is very difficult to hold onto. I don’t care what religion or faith one chooses. Jesus is still waiting on us. Waiting and watching and hoping we remember him and listen to him and hold onto that precious faith. I too realize that Vatican II had a lot to do with Catholics leaving the Church in droves and how the MSM attacked our Catholic faith because of the child sex abuse scandals. But Christianity in general in under attack whether one is Catholic, Baptist, or Lutheran. People like Anne Rice take the easy way out.They’re fickle. Religious ethics and compromise happen. Priests and nuns disagree and why she didn’t realize that the Catholic Church is against civil unions and gay marriage along with contraception, makes me think that she is not all there. Why did she enter into the faith if these beliefs bothered her? I realize the Church does not have as many faithful as it used to, but did she think that it would start marrying two men or two women. The Church is not that desperate for followers Anne!! It’s always easier to give up and say, there is no Hell, because deep down you know its a real possibility. Jesus is the only way to salvation. He is the way, the truth, and the life.
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- KAdams
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 3:01pm
  Alleged???? Proven, more like it. There‘s nothing ’alleged’ about the abuse. It happened, it’s been happening, and it will probably continue to happen.
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- edmundburk
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 7:27pm
  there are a lot of protestants returning to the one true church, I should know, I am one of them.
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Locked
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:31am
Honest question: who here has read some of her work? As a young man I read a few of the Vampire Chronicles (Interview with a Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, Memnoc the Devil). The last one especially seemed pretty profound, as it was about Satan’s fall from heaven (obviously fiction, but an interesting presentation). A few years ago I found her “Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt” interesting, especially when I discovered it was based on some of the gospels concerning Jesus‘s life that didn’t make it into the Bible (mostly because they were written a couple of centuries after His death). Led me to research what other books were cu, and why, from the Bible as we know it today.

Just curious how many people here are decrying her views rather than her works.
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- MidwestMomof3
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 10:15am
  Locked…I have extensively read Ms. Rice from her Vampire Chronicles series to the “Mayfair Witch” series and even read some of the early erotica under the penname A.N. Roquelaure…she also used the publishing name Anne Rampling for two other books. Along with The Wolf Gift, there are two more books that are yet TBA for release dates….one being Christ the Lord: The Kingdom of Heaven.
  
  I agree with you about Memnoch being an incredibly interesting read…one of my favorites. I have not read the Christ the Lord series at all yet…it‘s looking like I’m going to have to pick them up!
  
  As for her religious views…I feel she’s being honest in how she struggles to find “the perfect fit”. Many of us go through the same thing.
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- Locked
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 10:32am
  @Midwestmom
  
  I enjoy her stories, although they can get pretty racy at times (a tie-in from her smut novels under other assumed names, I’d imagine). “Out of Egypt” was interesting in that it covers some of the “other” Gospels… particularly the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. I seem to recall the story beginning with 6-year old Jesus killing another child in a fit of rage and then bringing him back to life. But the material seemed to be heavily researched and the setting is as historically accurate as can be. It does a great job describing life at the time of the young Christ, even if the particulars of His own specific situation are largely unknown.
  
  Keeping an open mind about some of actions of Jesus will let readers really immerse themselves in the life and history of the first century. And Rice manages to craft her characters into beings we can find believable. We‘ll never know if Jesus acted like He’s portrayed in the book, but she does a great job convincing the reader that He could have.
  
  I haven’t read the second book yet; I keep meaning to pick it up but I forget to do so. I should get on that soon!
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- MidwestMomof3
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:47pm
  After a bit more research, it appears the next in the Christ the King series has been put on hold…I hope she decides to publish it even as she struggles with her own place in this world religion-wise. I find her openness to say “I’m not sure” refreshing. As someone who has gone from being raised in a “fallen Catholic”s home, to not believing one little bit, to finally finding my own faith in Christ (not necessarily a “religion”) I can totally understand her point-of-view. I spent much time reading her works with the Bible open beside me, going back and forth and researching points she brings up.
  
  Time to dusk off Merrick again…my all-time favorite (a tie-in of The Vampire Chronicles and The Lives of the Mayfair Witches)
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- edmundburk
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 7:43pm
  @KADAMS-as if pedophila has not infected ALL aspects of our culture, your going to blame the catholic church for things that have happened in our public schools?! WHAT ABOUT ALL THOSE FEMALE TEACHERS? YOU HYYPOCTITE!!!
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70S_KIDS_FIGHTING_SOCIALISM
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:29am
Ah yes just like the so called liberal Christians who have trouble with that sin stuff. They just wipe away all the sins they like by changing the law and putting MANS laws above Gods laws until their is no need for forgiveness of sins.
Psalm 2
1Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
3Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
4He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.
5Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
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- CIAtroll
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:38am
  In Freemason Bibles, which is basically the King James Bible, except on page 33 of the Freemason Bible, it informs the reader that Lucifer is the real God & that Lucifer is the real Jesus and also according to this Freemason Bible, it is indeed Lucifer that is the carrier of light. So, these people are masters at double talk and hiding their worship of Satan behind Christianity.
  
  So, we see her final Act and she comes out in a black Sabbath witch’s gown, singing to her track “Like A Prayer” but yet this supposedly religious song doesn’t use the word Jesus, so who was she praying to when she dropped to her knees? http://hollywoodilluminati.com/2012/02/06/madonnas-nfl-satanic-ritual-disguised-in-the-half-time-show/
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- NC1
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:19am
  CIATROLL, I have one of those Freemason bibles. Mine doesn’t say that. Stop spreading lies, especially from conspiracy theorist website trash. Freemasons do not worship satan. That is garbage.
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- KAdams
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 3:05pm
  Read Morals and Dogma. Scottish Rite Freemasonry is a satanic cult.
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pennswoods
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:19am
I am traditional Catholic. People like this woman who surrounded themselves with legions of statues and crucifixes and wear their faith on their sleeve have always given me the creeps. We have a crucifix in our house to remind us of Jesus’s sacrifice for the forgiveness of our sins. Converts who go overboard, like this person, have always been suspect in my mind. I’ve seen them come and go over many years. They burn a bright flame of faith fired by the zeal of their newly found faith which eventually burns out. I imagine this applies this applies to other faiths as well. Most converts fortunately feel no need to be like this woman. She will hold the torch of her renewed atheism as high as she did her former Catholicism until she once again finds atheism hollow and meaningless. Very sad.
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- The Jewish Avenger
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:37am
  “They burn a bright flame of faith fired by the zeal of their newly found faith which eventually burns out.”
  
  Matthew 13:3-6
  
  3 Then He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: “Behold, a sower went out to sow. 4 And as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them. 5 Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth. 6 But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away.”
  
  Disciples are confused and wondering why asking in parables, Jesus then allows them to understand
  
  Matthew 13: 18-23
  18 Therefore, hear the parable of the sower: 19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside. 20 But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; 21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. 22 Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful, 23 But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty
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- KAdams
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 4:45pm
  I still don’t understand the NEED for a REMINDER (a.k.a. crucifix) of Christ’s sacrifice…. Waking up everyday is a reminder… giving thanks Jesus everyday for your sustenance is a reminder… going to bed and praying is a reminder… WHY the need for an IDOL??
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- SCHEXbp
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 11:20pm
  Ann Rice is trying to be fashionable or whatever. If she thinks she can be a Catholic & be pro-abortion & pro-gay lifestyle, then she did NO investigation into the Church whatsoever. All the talk of “spiritualism” is nonsense. Those people sprang up & literally believed in elves & fairies in the early 1900s & were dupes of fake photos & videos. Standing on your own (reading of the Bible & such) without the aid of centuries of learned holy men is foolishness. The road to self-deception is too easy.
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SquidVetOhio
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:17am
“As for the Bible, Rice no longer views it as something that should be read literally and she claims that “the maker of the universe [wouldn't] write everything down in [only] two languages in one part of the world.”

Folks, she was never a christian. She fell in love with religion, not the Christ of it. The Bible trumps all church doctine.
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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:23am
  She liked the fashion accessories of Christianity.
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- tired_of_it2011
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:44am
  This is what happens when a person places their faith in man and not the teachings. The catechism of the Catholic Church specifically advises Christians not to do this. Man is fallable, the teachings are not because they are Christ’s teachings. Anne Rice, in her arrogance, places herself before those teachings and refuses to submit. She may have had faith at one time, but her sinfulness has seperated her from God. The worst part about her though is that she is actively denouncing Christian teaching and making others question their faith, which is a grave sin.
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- KAdams
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 4:51pm
  Minimizing God has been one of the greatest of humanities’ crimes. Fitting the concept of God into a narrow, limited human comprehension.. sad.
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- edmundburk
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:01pm
  She was returning to the faith of her youth. How many of you have done the same thing? Would you be saying things if she were Baptist?
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- PrayNC
  Posted on February 7, 2012 at 12:22pm
  The Church came Before the Bible. How would the word of God gotten around when not until AFter 1500 yrs Christ left this earth was there even a printing press. Christ told his Apostle s, “go and Preach to all Nations” He never said to write down anything…ONLY in Apocolypse, St. John is told to write down. Although the Bible is the word of God, written by his chosen.
  Christ said “the gates of hell shall Not prevail against it”…His Church, all the way down to the current Pope traced back to Saint Peter. What other religion can say that? None..Nor does any other religion/teaching has Christ’s Promise as in the above. Ann, like so many does not want to hear the Truth…
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beachmom
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:13am
She abandoned God for money.
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- The Jewish Avenger
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:25am
  DING DING DING… We have an answer!
  *Applause*
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nostromo
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:12am
Like so many folks, Ms. Rice simply believes in what she wants to and criticizes those who believe what they want to.
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- Marine25
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:05am
  Sounds like the perfect Christian.
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- texasfireguy
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 11:43am
  The only perfect Christian was Christ. The rest of us do the best we can and pray for strength and wisdom to do better.
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PandoraSpocks
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:12am
She is seeking answers from the world instead of answers from God. To read about her disdain for christians and their beliefs it sounds as if political correctness has permeated her thinking rather than God’s voice. Keep searching, Anne. The catholic church isn’t the only Christian religion out there. Just make sure that your religion is inspired by God, not by any man or men.
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- Locked
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:22am
  From reading her words, it sounds more like she’s seeking answers from God after failing to find them in religion. I can relate to that; religion is man-made. It can be tough to deal with both the good and the bad that comes when you put men in charge of the teaching of the divine.
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- the wireworker
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:06pm
  @ locked
  
  religion is mans attempt to find god
  Christianity is God’s attempt at redeeming mankind back to Him.
  
  someone else in this thread stated that the Bible was written by sinful man and that the church only wanted to hold power over the people.
  if you look at the catholic church, it was the power of the Word of God they realized they had, they could hold power over the masses. God was not satisfied with this misuse of power and God in his infinite wisdom gave us the reformation, people died so we could have our own Holy Scriptures. it was history repeating itself, think about the pharasees and saducess, Christ himself destroyed that power structure. now we have others attempting the gain of power through The Word of God although completely distorting the message to a social justice,tolerance and watered down version. Christ will come again and take the power away from those who seek to control the masses.
  yes sinful man did write the Scriptures (by inspiration of the Holy Spirit) but that is His message, that we are all sinners and that we can all be redeemed back to HIM and then we live our lives with help from the Holy Spirit and those inspired scriptures.
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- KAdams
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:55pm
  Don’t forget, that the Bible was actually outlawed in the dark ages. The Catholics ruled by catechism, and performed most, if not all masses in Latin. The Tridentine Mass, the most telling, was recently reinstated, and will be performed in Latin, just like the old days. Translations of the early Bible weren’t available to the common people, and the Church ruled them with an iron fist, using extortion (indulgences), the threat of their relatives forever languishing in Purgatory, physical penance, and of course, the horrible convents and the priesthood itself, to keep the people under their control. They were NOT Christians.
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NHwinter
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:06am
Why do we give one person so much Blaze space regarding her personal struggle with religion? Who really cares? There are so many people who love and serve God. Feature them please.
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- Locked
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:20am
  She’s one of the most widely read authors in the current age. More than 100 million of her books have been sold. In addition, she’s been very public about her faith (its growth and then her falling out with organized religion).
  
  Many of her works are religious fiction; for example, “Memnoc the Devil” (part of the Vampire Chronicles, her most famous series) is an interesting take on the fall of Satan, and then she has another series called “The Life of Christ” based on Jesus and primarily incorporating the Infancy Gospels. I read “Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt” several years ago and, while it was obviously historical fiction, it made me interested in finding out more about which Gospels and books did not make it into the New Testament and why. It was a very interesting insight to the early church and how much we take for granted about how definitive the Bible really is (when none of the gospels were written until at least a generation or two after the death of Christ).
  
  To sum up, there are been interviews here about other series (like the “Left Behind” ones). Not much of a stretch to include Anne Rice.
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- edmundburk
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:20pm
  @KADAMS-WHAT’S YOUR DAMAGE?? Do you get a medal every time you slander catholics?
  1.NOBODY had bibles in the middle ages because the printing press had been just invented.
  2.the catholic mass is in vernacler latin mass is still said in some churchs.
  3. Monstaries and convents have contributed to christain thought for centuries.
  4.There were some problems with the catholic church in the middle ages thats why we had the concil of Trent!
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thekuligs
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:03am
Anne Rice is a total fanatic. Finds God, gives up writing what she was known for instead of merely, tweeking her subject matters she switches to only Christian writing. THEN she becomes disillusioned a few years later, oddly after the whole vampire craze starts again–maybe she feels jipped? She is incappable of middle ground, or a total fraud.
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qpwillie
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 7:58am
I just hope she comes to realize the differences between the church and the Bible. The truth is out there to be found but you can’t be lazy and let the priest or the preacher tell you what it is.
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- Nick
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:12am
  Exactly–not only the church and the bible, but she needs to understand the difference between Catholicism (a “religion” I’m finding more and more of a scam, and I grew up catholic) and Christianity.
  
  She, like many are being deceived by the notion that a loving God would not create a place called hell, and she backs that up by saying a “that a remnant of people would be saved from the fire,” when, in fact, the ones who are not saved made that choice on their own– it‘s not God’s choice.
  
  She‘ll find out soon enough whether she’s right or wrong, and the price for being wrong in an eternity of torment.
  
  Add to all this her flip flopping on this issue- she has not truly studied or understood free will or the Greatness of God.
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- Locked
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:51am
  @Nick
  
  “Add to all this her flip flopping on this issue- she has not truly studied or understood free will or the Greatness of God.”
  
  Have you read any of her books, including her “Christ the Lord”?
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- DeavonReye
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:41am
  A person cannot CHOOSE to have “faith” in what they can’t see as being real. Could you choose to reject the literal goddess Brigid? If you say, “she wasn’t real”, . . . prove it.
  
  The point is, regardless of your pastor/apologists stating that “people choose to go to hell”, it is illogical, especially for some, such as myself. Again, by rejecting the goddess, would you be choosing to reject an afterlife in Summerland?
  
  Remember, . . . there is a Jewish heaven, . . .a Muslim heaven, . . . a Hindu heaven, etc…
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Eagle in NYC
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 7:57am
So, the Catholic Church was too easy on the NAMBLA wing of gay priests who preyed on children. But the Church “scapegoats gays” “… the relentless persecution of gay people…the vilifying of gay people.”

She should read “Mere Christianity” by C.S. Lewis to find out what Christianity actually is, so she can choose which denomination she prefers. And then remain silent. I’m tired of reading of her conversions du jour. The lady doth profess too much, methinks.
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- spirit of freedom
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:16am
  as usual, another catholic led to hell by the MEN of the achdiosese(sp) gee, so then you hold the sins of Man against God? idiot. if you out your faith in Men they will let you down every time. put your faith in God alone. you will never be let down. her opinion is flawed.
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- KAdams
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:50pm
  CS Lewis? The same CS Lewis that was in the Order of the Golden Dawn, a satanic cult? No thanks.
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- Eagle in NYC
  Posted on February 7, 2012 at 12:52am
  KADAMS: I see no evidence that C.S. Lewis was a member of the Order of the Golden Dawn. Please provide.
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BurntHills
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 7:56am
who gives a dang about that godless skank. she is just seeking 5 more minutes of fame. many years and years ago her first few vampire “books” were a hit because they were something ‘new’, and she had a pretty good tale for awhile —– until she suddenly really started publishing FILTH. you could actually read her degeneracy as she became more successful publishing– she plummeted in the muck. finally years ago it got to the point we gave up and couldn’t even finish her latest book, they were so disgusting, the godless filth in her mind!! we had a whole box of her books we couldn’t sell on a yard sale out here for $5. they finally went to the burnpile where they belonged.
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hi
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 7:55am
I knew she didn’t really become a Christian when she wrote a book about Jesus growing up and not know he was God-something like that.

When God tells us not to do something, it is because he loves us. It is like telling your kid not to do drugs because it is harmful.

Try the Bible church!
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Trebuchet
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 7:55am
At the time of her supposed conversion she was working on and touting a book about Jesus. In fact she wrote two books about Christ and a book about the Seraphim. They didn’t sell as well as her vampire books so it was out with Jesus and back in with the vampires. Oldest publisity stunt in the world.
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RightPolitically
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 7:53am
She’s confused. Who cares. Live a good life and be done with it.
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Amos37
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 7:49am
She believes in God, even the demons believe in one God and tremble. Just because she doesn‘t believe God’s Word doesn’t make it any less true.

She is faithless:
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

She has worldly faith, where she claims God loves her, but by her own beliefs denies Him.
But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!

The true God has a place for everyone, whether you believe or not. Better pray that God kicks this ladies ass so she can wake up to the Truth of HIS WORD!!!
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- DeavonReye
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:29am
  People believing it to be true . . . doesn’t automatically make it true. As for “faith”, . . . “faith” isn’t evidence. It is the opposite of evidence, and must be, or else it isn’t “faith”. So, “faith” is learned and is usually based upon the most popular belief system. Why should “faith” in any system be seen as “more holy”?
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- KAdams
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 4:48pm
  With faith comes love. Unconditional. That’s why. “We love Him, because He first loved us.”
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 7:45am
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Look‘s like one of her Vampire’s Sucked her brain out. Boy, I bet that was Nasty……….
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- right
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:52am
  She would make good gator bait down here on the bayou.
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- SpankDaMonkey
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:57am
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  I’ve never seen a gator that hungry…………
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Kopfjager
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 7:34am
I understand any person questioning things. I do have a problem on the abortion issue where she says that the anti-abortion movement is not about the child. I think this is more of her political view and not based on the truth. The Catholics I go to mass with know that it is all about the child. A genuine love for God’s most presious gift. All it takes is for you to stare into an infants eyes or to experience a young child holding their arms up to you for you to know that it is pure, untainted love.

Faith, Hope and Love, and the greatest is Love.
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- NOTAMUSHROOM
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:00am
  Indeed, for many people politics IS their religion.
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- RagingJudge
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 10:55am
  Indeed that point right there is an indication that she is absolutely clueless.
  
  What could be more un-American and anti-Christian than ending a life before it is even given a chance to fight?
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- Tandem2011
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:31pm
  Nonsense. Faith in a just God and faith in the immortality of the soul (of aborted fetuses) means faith in an unborn child’s love, peace and growth in unseen worlds beyond this one. Fanatics against abortion have no faith in such promises at all. It’s always about the religious zealot and his/her own fear of death. Belief is not proof of anything. It is merely a personal choice…just like the woman who decides not to bring an embryo to full term for reasons she must live with. If you impose your religious views as such, it’s nothing less than tyranny.
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LibzLie
Posted on February 6, 2012 at 7:14am
Go easy on her people! She believes in God, she just has issues with some of the contradictions that are offered in the varying sects !
God bless her and guide her!
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- 000degrees
  Posted on February 6, 2012 at 7:31am
  Too bad she has decided to put man in front of God. God bless her regardless….I hope she allows the Holy Spirit back into her life to guide her.
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