I am reading Anne Rice’s Called Out of Darkness, and at one point she mentions her vampire novels. I was totally floored when she says they should not have been commercial successes because each was so different from the other. Different? Bloody hell, she wrote the same damned book five times, how could she say they are different? But I understand. As a writer there is no reason for you to think while you are writing, ah, well, this is exactly like the last book I wrote, only with different people. No, you write it and think, because it has…
Category: athiest
Athiests for Jesus-Humanists Need Love Too
In USA Today on Oct 8th there was a nice little Forum article about how we should all just get along. It was written by Nica Lalli, who is a nice rational person who happens to be an atheist. She makes a few well reasoned arguments as to why atheists should be included in religious discussions and how there are different flavors of atheists just as there are different flavors of true believers.She seems to think that it is possible to get together with true believers on common ground and agree to disagree. She also says that she doesn’t understand…