write urban fantasy, get kicked out of church

[mizkit]

So urban fantasy author J.F. Lewis has been kicked out of his church for writing an urban fantasy vampire novel, STAKED, and for “committing the sins contained within it”.

o.O

Jeremy emailed me a while before STAKED came out to say he was enjoying the Negotiator books, and we discovered we had Chris McGrath in common as a cover artist. We met at

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[gerriwritinglog]

It does look like a good book.

Church people can be IDIOTS. *insert your own fact vs. fiction statement here*

[shannachie]

What an appallingly silly way to behave for a 'religion'. But then sects or denominations are just groups of people who agree on one particular standardised way of worshipping. A procedure. It has nothing to do with God or with spirituality, it's just a club thing with pretense.
If Eric has been part of a group of what turned out to consist of hypocritical idiots, he might be better off in another group that is less evil-minded and unintelligent.
Still - I am appalled.

[jeditigger]

Oh, brother. Considering I'm writing urban fantasy now too AND he's a fellow redhead I'm totally buying this book.

Far too many self-proclaimed Christians focus on dumb things and miss the big picture. :P

[fiction_theory]

Oh, wow. That's just wrong. Because a) a church kicking someone out for committing sins is sort of DOING IT WRONG, unless all the formative childhood years spent there misled me and b) they actually believed he committed the "sins" within the book? They believe in vampires? Really? Really?

Just...wow.

Also? Is it wrong that having a church throw him out makes me sort of determined to get my hands on this book? If only so I can make snarky BIblical arguments about what actually counts as a sin and what doesn't in the book.

One could make the argument that vampirism isn't a sin so long as coitus or murder isn't involved, that blood drinking doesn't violate any tenants of the Christian faith.

Anyway, he sounds like a great guy. I'm definitely going to search out this book.

[kesmun]

Actually, if you're Roman Catholic, blood drinking is required. *shifty*

[fiction_theory]

Yeah, I know, but I was going to refrain from mentioning that because I'm not sure what denomination the aforementioned author was part of. :)

[kesmun]

*L* I'm Episcopalian, and we're all over the map regarding Transubstantiation. As one priest put it regarding the wafers a lot of churches use: "If I can believe that fish food is bread, I can believe anything."

[liret]

“committing the sins contained within it." Oh. Obviously. If you write a book about vampires, you must actually drink blood in your spare time. Perfect logic!