In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a rejection of various anti-positions in the name of a love-centric and accepting understanding of Christianity.
In this quote, Anne Rice articulates a profound re-evaluation of her faith and ideologies. She emphasizes a departure from divisive stances that oppose marginalized groups and progressive values, suggesting that true Christian teachings should embrace love, acceptance, and an open-minded approach to different beliefs and lifestyles. Her refusal to align with anti-gay, anti-feminist, and other negative viewpoints highlights a struggle against rigid dogmas that contradict the core message of compassion in Christianity.
In practice
In a discussion about inclusivity in faith communities.
From my stone pillow I have dreamed dreams of the mortal world above. I have heard its voices, its new music, as lullabies as I lie in my grave. I have envisioned its fantastical discoveries. I have known its courage in the timeless sanctum of my thoughts. And though it shuts me out with its dazzling forms, I long for one with the strength to roam it fearlessly, to ride the Devil's Road through its heart.
We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.
And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.
Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger than a speck of dust beating, beating against death, against meaninglessness, against guilt, against sorrow.
The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.
In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.
Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.
We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share
And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible rules, called Science; which very few have, and but in few things; as being not a native faculty, born within us; nor attained, (as Prudence,) while we look after somewhat else.
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