So in the post-Passion, post-Left Behind, post-DaVinci Code world, it seems like religion is more marketable than its been in a while. And best selling author Anne Rice (more famous for her Vampire chronicles) has decided to ride the wave with Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt an upcoming book on the so-called "lost years" of Jesus(as), the period of time in Christ's life after his childhood but before the start of his ministry.
If her book, Memnoch the Devil is any indication, then fundamentalists should have started making picket signs several weeks ago. In her earlier book, Rice has the vampire Lestat meet Satan (who prefers to go by the name of Memnoch) as a vehicle for spelling out the metaphysics and theology which undergirds her fictional universe; topics range from the creation of the world, the origin of vampires, ghosts and zombies, the fall of Satan, and the secrets of the afterlife. Some of the more shocking revelations: Letting human souls into heaven was Satan's idea. Before he made the suggestion, God allowed the souls of the dead to suffer in some kind of metaphysical warehouse. Satan also accused God of not being sympathetic to human beings so indirectly the incarnation of Jesus is also Satan's idea in Rice's world.
I wonder how much ink will be spilled when the new book actually comes out.
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