The author Anne Rice, the writer of the 1980s series of vampire novels beginning with The Interview With the Vampire, and who, several years ago claimed that she was a new born Christian of the Roman Catholic type, has, this week, declared that she renounces her identity as a Christian and that she is simply a follower of Christ.
Her declaration, imparted to the world at large via Twitter, states that she is upset with the infighting and anti-gay sentiment among those she calls Christians. Her statement shows that she knows little about the Faith.
To get down to cases, Anne Rice really has no idea about what a Christian is. A Christian is a person who adheres to one of the major confession (Apostles', Nicene, Chalcedonian). A Christian is a person who reads the Bible as literal and who, whether one agrees with what is written in the Bible, tries to adhere, to the best of one's ability, to the tenants of the the Bible.
Ms. Rice is showing herself to be a "Christianist". In other words, she thinks that Jesus is pretty much okay, but he may have gotten some things wrong. And she knows better than the Son of God.
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