Bestselling author Anne Rice decided to leave the Roman Catholic Church on July 28th with an announcement on her Facebook page. You may remember her as the author of “Interview With a Vampire”, starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, or one of the other erotic gothic novels she was known to write.
Since her announced conversion to Christ in 1998, the former atheistic Rice wrote “Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt”, and other Christian themed works. Here is her Facebook announcement:
"For those who care, and I understand if you don't: Today I quit being a Christian. I'm out. I remain committed to Christ as always but not to being 'Christian' or to being part of Christianity. It's simply impossible for me to 'belong' to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. For ten years, I've tried. I've failed. I'm an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else."
For more on this story you can check out this article over at NPR.
There have been numerous responses including this one entitled, “An Evangelical Leader’s Open Letter to Anne Rice”.
More and more believers are disassociating themselves from formal Christianity. I think Anne Rice is really leaving religious nonsense, and there are many other famous and non famous believers who have followed this same path. I pray she finds some practice of community with other believers because Christ has not called us to an individualistic brand of belief but the life of Christ worked out in shared faith.
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