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That makes no sense. How the heck does her writing about Jesus, make her the Anti-Christ? And so what if she quit writing about vampires and witches. Does it make Margaret Weiss any different for writing about dragons and warlocks in Dragonlance? Perhaps JK Rowlings is the anti-christ too since she writes about wizardry in the Harry Potter series.

Sure the book itself takes after some of the stories of Jesus that she writes of were church rejected stories. But then again, are not all stories some perspective of the truth? The Church at the time was also looking for a way for expanding powers. Stories such as these would have been detrimental to the institution.

I think the anti-christ comment was tongue-in-cheek, Ben. My advice is to chill.

But so far as Nancy's serious question: I've never read her stuff. At this stage of her life, she can afford to write about the secret lives of tube worms if she felt like it. In any event, I haven't any desire to read her new material any more than her old stuff.

Yes, my tongue was planted firmly in cheek, BUT, I get Ben's point. Why is it that we see writers of "the darkness" as servants of the darkness (ie churches banning Harry Potter, and at one time, The Smurfs, who also had magical powers)?

I think there's a pretty big dose of paranoia and inferiority complex built into the Middle East-based religions. They take their cue from the descriptions of their God: Jealous, vengeful, infinitely and unendingly spiteful toward those who cross him.

It's far less pleasant towards outsiders than many other religions I could mention. Xenophobia may have been a natural reaction by the Jews of Biblical times, but the way they put it on paper has done humanity no great service, IMO.

ITS DUBIOUS