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<title>Why Anne Rice Quit Christianity</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" src="/galleycat/files/original/annerice.jpg" alt="annerice.jpg" width="164" height="192" />Horror novelist <strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Anne-Rice-profile.html">Anne Rice</a></strong> made a summer news splash with her <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/anne-rice-i-quit-christianity_b12285">Facebook announcement</a>: &#8220;I quit.&#8221; She left Catholicism, a religion she re-entered during her middle age years. Her resignation drew more than 2,000 comments and well over 3,000 “likes&#8221; on the social-networking site.</p>
<p>According to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/24/anne-rice-catholic-church-rejection-vampire">the <em>Guardian</em></a>, Rice took particular issue when her preacher likened <strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Barack-Obama-profile.html">Barack Obama</a></strong> to former Russian head-of-state <strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Joseph-Stalin-profile.html">Joseph Stalin</a></strong>. The preacher made this comparison based on the fact that President Obama&#8217;s views on abortion.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a Rice quote <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/24/anne-rice-catholic-church-rejection-vampire">from the article</a>: &#8220;I increasingly saw what I thought was sophistry and lies, I thought: &#8216;I can&#8217;t abide this.&#8217; I can&#8217;t remain with this. This is crazy. There is no basis in scripture for any anointed hierarchy, let alone a male hierarchy. It&#8217;s just not there. And how in the world did this man-god die, preaching against the temple, and then we wind up with St Peter&#8217;s in Rome? How did that happen? There were so many issues where I thought the church was flat-out immoral. I had to leave.&#8221;</p>
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