Ok, I had to kind of vent about something. I recently decided to read some work by Francine Rivers. I am a big reader and sometimes I enjoy sitting down with a fictional book for pleasure. She is a Christian author so I figured I might even get a bit inspired by her books. Needless to say I am not inspired but deeply disturbed that I even bothered to pick it up - I might as well stay far away from religious fiction and stick with secular authors.
Why? Well, she wrote 5 novellas about 5 distinct women of the Bible that were called to greater lives (Ruth, Bathsheba, Tamar, Mary and I can't remember the other one). I was really enjoying them until the last one on Mary when I get to the part that Mary approaches Joseph to lie with him to beget children with him and then she gives birth to Jesus' little brother James! I know that you are probably thinking that it is a case of an I told you so but I just can't believe that this woman would dare make a novel on a subject that would be so insulting to so many followers of Christ. I had to put the book down as it was quite upsetting and I sent the author a comment about it.
Gah, that was all, thanks for listening and if you are going to say I told you to stay away from heterodox philosophies, I already know that.
Why? Well, she wrote 5 novellas about 5 distinct women of the Bible that were called to greater lives (Ruth, Bathsheba, Tamar, Mary and I can't remember the other one). I was really enjoying them until the last one on Mary when I get to the part that Mary approaches Joseph to lie with him to beget children with him and then she gives birth to Jesus' little brother James! I know that you are probably thinking that it is a case of an I told you so but I just can't believe that this woman would dare make a novel on a subject that would be so insulting to so many followers of Christ. I had to put the book down as it was quite upsetting and I sent the author a comment about it.
Gah, that was all, thanks for listening and if you are going to say I told you to stay away from heterodox philosophies, I already know that.