I have a friend who wastes her time reading Rice’s books (along with Stephen King and the other “great” horror writers). She idealizes Rice because Rice is so famous, so rich…Fragile, she is easily seduced by evil and she thinks that it’s okay because Rice has glamorized evil; thus making it l(and the demons and the demonic world Rice sells) legitimate.

Now the flip-flop? Look closely and you will see that she’s still seliing evil, only now it’s christian violence and because her character is “divine,” this evil is ”divine.”

By the way, violence is evil. So are little psychopathic boys that kill other children that get in their way.

Because of Rice and other influencial ”writers” like her that have legitimized evil, my friend is going to lose her soul. That is the legacy of romanticizing, sympathsizing with and glamorizing evil.

As for paganism, I’m a pagan. Paganism has nothing to do with the selling of evil. It has more to do with the understanding that there is more than one god, including the god of death called by a variety of names including molech, ba’al, wanchenlu. It is this god of death that Rice serves and her service helps to make this world more of the real hell it is.

And as my dying friend would say, “But she’s a great literature writer and she has the money and success to prove it. Now she’s a christian…”

If Rice has become such a christian, why does she still push for her evil writing to be filmed and reprinted? Why doesn’t she give away all the money she made writing and extolling evil to charities that really fight evil? She wants it all: Money and Fame in this Life and Salvation in the Next. Didn’t Christ say that you can’t have it all? Rice and her camel want to go through the eye of a needle. Even if she found a way to do it, there’s only hell on the other side.

Rice still only serves herself. There is no service to others and the only ‘’service” Rice is doing is trying to sell a violent, corrupt, misogynist, patriarchal, soul-limiting/killing religion to the world after she wounded many psyches by scaring many of her readers with demons and evil.

You dance with the devil, you will get your reward. You sell evil as something natural and you sympathesize with it, you will go to hell. You sell your evil with the suffering of gays, lesbians and transsexuals, you’re really damned.

Yeah, all too frequently, the media look to the sensationalistic and liberal to serve as the mouthpieces for Christianity. I’d love to see, for example, Craig Blomberg’s, William Lane Craig’s, or Walter C. Kaiser’s take on Anne Rice’s book when it arrives. Alas, those good folks are far too Evangelical to be relied on to give safe soundbytes for the liberal media. Instead we’ll see more praise from the historical Jesus crowd and other limp liberals before we see any solid criticism.

LIke you, I hope Rice doesn’t become a spokesman. I keep thinking of the injunction to “Lay hands on no man suddenly,” and that those who presume to teach the Word have a greater responsibility. Rice is a relatively young Christian (er … Catholic Christian?) and still too strongly attached to her pagan fiction to serve as an effective ambassador for Christ, I think.

Thanks, again,

Regards,

Rich.