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Stan Rice was an atheist, and Anne Rice is arguably the most influential vampire and occult author since Bram Stoker. Can"t it be possible that she only faked a return to Christianity long enough to write her series about the life of Jesus Christ?
Entertain the idea for a minute. As a non-Christian, Jesus Christ is the one supernatural figure she could not write about without facing the ire of a large segment of readers. While writing it, she worked with theologians from the Catholic church -- which she seems to deeply respect and admire for the beauty of its art, churches, and mythology (Catholics have some ideas that go way beyond the Christian canon at large).
In pretending to be Christian and penning those novels, she not only opened the door to non-Christians to appreciate Jesus Christ as a character and his life as a story, but in later denouncing her Christianity she has demonstrated conclusively that one may be atheist while both understanding and admiring Jesus beyond any level most "Christians" ever attempt.
I"d say the move back to overt atheism is part honesty and part a message written by example rather than word. Anne Rice is awed by the imagination of humanity and obviously is deeply enthralled by concepts of immortality and supernatural / preternatural abilities. So, she found a way to share that with the world via perhaps the most well-known fictional supernatural character of all time.
I"ll take the opportunity to add that her genius is not in her ability to write about such characters, but rather in her ability to make them seem so human and to make their stories so personal. I can think of no better author to study when it comes to writing about people.
Gnostici comments on Anne Rice came to her senses.
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Stan Rice was an atheist, and Anne Rice is arguably the most influential vampire and occult author since Bram Stoker. Can"t it be possible that she only faked a return to Christianity long enough to write her series about the life of Jesus Christ?
Entertain the idea for a minute. As a non-Christian, Jesus Christ is the one supernatural figure she could not write about without facing the ire of a large segment of readers. While writing it, she worked with theologians from the Catholic church -- which she seems to deeply respect and admire for the beauty of its art, churches, and mythology (Catholics have some ideas that go way beyond the Christian canon at large).
In pretending to be Christian and penning those novels, she not only opened the door to non-Christians to appreciate Jesus Christ as a character and his life as a story, but in later denouncing her Christianity she has demonstrated conclusively that one may be atheist while both understanding and admiring Jesus beyond any level most "Christians" ever attempt.
I"d say the move back to overt atheism is part honesty and part a message written by example rather than word. Anne Rice is awed by the imagination of humanity and obviously is deeply enthralled by concepts of immortality and supernatural / preternatural abilities. So, she found a way to share that with the world via perhaps the most well-known fictional supernatural character of all time.
I"ll take the opportunity to add that her genius is not in her ability to write about such characters, but rather in her ability to make them seem so human and to make their stories so personal. I can think of no better author to study when it comes to writing about people.
Gnostici comments on Anne Rice came to her senses.
