Of course not. What she writes about is one thing. How she writes about it is another thing. And "how" is the matter that should affect people's opinions of her as a person and an author. I haven't read the books about Jesus but she seems very genuine and passionate believer, so I have no doubt they're respectful books. Of course religion is overly sensitive subject and so many get bloody offended extremely easily, and anyways, by different things. And as for those who are not religious and don't want to read about Jesus, then they just don't have to. No valid reason there to like Anne less.

Thank you bendaimmortal I agree.
Just because she has maybe gotten tired of writing about the same thing, that doesn't make her any less of an amazing and talented writer.
She maybe just wanted to widen her range of work, wouldn't anyone?
How many books has written about Vampires and such?
Not that I'm going to like her book just because she wrote it, but I'm going to read it.
I think people need to be more open minded about things like this.
I think it's amazing that Anne can write about the eternal damned and Jesus and probably have amazing books on both subjects.
Now that takes a true writer.

Actually didn't she just say last year in that video that she's not writing about vampires anymore because of her return to faith. And not that she didn't just generally care to write about them. As in, vampires = demons = something a person in faith wouldn't want to write about. Though that's of course very personal. I believe in God, Jesus, heaven and the Bible but I still love to write about vampires, witches and all that stuff. But only in the human ways, like Anne Rice or J.K. Rowling and so on... anything that goes too demonic is just not my thing (wouldn't be regardelss of if i was a believer or not.)

I am not religious, but only because I think that religion has been dumbed down so much over the years.
For example: if I said I was Christian that would mean I go to church. (That's what people would automticlly think anyway.)
But I do believe in God and heaven and Jesus, and I pray, but I don't think that I'm going to hell just for reading about and liking stories about Vampires, or books written by athiests, or anything else.
As long as I stick up for what I believe then it doesn't matter.
I do respect Anne Rice if that is the reason why she doesn't want to writer about Vampires, Witches, ect, but I don't believe that she can't write about them just because she has God in her life.
I'll always love and respect her, and her works.

"For example: if I said I was Christian that would mean I go to church. (That's what people would automticlly think anyway.)
But I do believe in God and heaven and Jesus, and I pray, but I don't think that I'm going to hell just for reading about and liking stories about Vampires, or books written by athiests, or anything else."

I'm a Christian and I don't go to church every Sunday actually I never go to chuech except maybe sometimes just before Christmas to sing/listen to Christmas songs. It's nice. I don't care what people automatically think or if they care to ask how do I express my faith. I do the thing syou do and I love vampire fiction too and yes I don't eithe rthink that will be any reason I'd get sent to Hell. Christianity these days seems to forget about loving God, who sacrificed his only son for us. I seriously don't believe someone like that would judge so quickly, especially if we are all supposed to have been born from Him, He would know everyhing about us there is to know, the people we truly are in our hearts and that's one big thing that matters.

And anyways, I don't think loving demon fiction is a road to Hell, I don't believe we have to sincerely regret and apologize for that love in order to be saved; As long as it doesn't get into a !!worshipping!! state but that our true love is for God alone, and as long as it stays fiction in our hearts and minds and out true beliefs ar for God. And I believe many of us love those demons only if there's humanity left and love them for those humanity parts, which I think also makes a significant point in how much loving them is not going to equal burning in Hell. The first commandement forbids us to keep other gods. That's what I meant byt not letting our love for demons, fictional or not, go into worship. Love and fascination is one thing. Worshipping love is another. I don't think God expects us to be perfect. We should just be human, ourselves and go for what's right. After all the world is all about good and evil. God and the Devil (who if I've understood correctly is nothing more than an angel cast out from Heaven for not worshipping Adam and Eve while God is something much more), and we, God's children are left with a free will to choose our beliefs and understandable weakness. I don't think we have to be perfect children. Just try to draw a line where it should be and yet if we cross it He'll still love us and forgive, if we sincerely ask so. I think many people are just too afraid to...live? To be themselves? I mean, surely not everyone has to love vampires or anything like that, but just, are some people even allowing themselves to explore the whole consept of good and evil in any practical level, even the most harmless? Or are they just staying away from it without even thinking if they are even interested but just tell themselves "it's bad, don't look at it". How can they know something if they don't get to know it but judge it by it's first impression.

Vampires may be demons, more or less, classical ones are even poignantly against religion but that's so not all there is to them, never was, I think. You don't have to love and be fascinated about everything about them. People really should relax a littel.

But of course - everyone does and thinks and chooses whatever they feel comfortable with.

"but I don't believe that she can't write about them just because she has God in her life."

Ah, yes, well I didn't even mean she wouldn't write about them for fear of Hell. No, for all I understood from that video is that she just doesn't want to bring dark creatures into "the world where sun shines, literally, all the time". If she believed love of vampires and witches equals Hell she would apologize, she would regret writing them but she says she doesn't. I don't see her choice having anything to do with the Judgment Day but she just feels so happy in the sun that she doesn't want to go back to the shadows where her vampires came from and where she should be if she continued writing about them.

I could never dislike Anne Rice for stopping writing about vampire, and writing about Jesus instead. I will probably not read them, Jesus has never truely interested me. But i will always read the Vampire chronicles over and over again (knowing me, ill forget the content in a few years and have ot read them again). I'm sad shes given them up, i still (even after reading your comments) dont completely understand why she did so, but its her world, she created it and she can end it as she wishes.

She will always be a literary genius.

If she was still writing about Lestat I would love her more, but anyway, she's a very good writer.

talent is talent

Absolutely not, actually I Respect her more for it.

No way, i love anne rice as an author!! her work is fantastic.. i love God, Jesus & vampires.. she should be able to write about anything, i'm sure it would still be amazing XD

She could write an Obituary and I'd still read it.

She has paid her dues with the vampire literature. Let her explore new realms. Let her grow as a writer.

I think it's all on sort of a continuum, or maybe an ever-widening circle, and even though I like the vampire books better (probably largely Lestat's fault) everything Anne Rice writes about immortals -sacred and "profane" -- reflects back on the human condition and the questions that haunt us.

She's one of the few people talking about the child sexual molestation of the Catholic church. Recent story of 37 accused priests in Philly alone are still serving in the church. Hundreds of accused priests across America alone. When will the rank and file of the Catholic Church put a stop to the coverups of this abuse?