Let’s play “Celebrity Convert!”
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As Orthodixie notes, Madonna the Material Girl has converted, and Ann “Interview with a Greasy, Oversexed, Totally Lurid Vampire” Rice has converted.
I would love to feel uplifted by this news, but I can’t help wondering how much it has to do with sagging record sales and a public disinterest in continuous vampiric pap. Celebrities aren’t exactly known for the longevity of their walk with the Lord, (Anybody remember Bob Dylan’s “Slow Train Coming” album?) and one doesn’t feel particularly encouraged by Madonna suddenly pronouncing that “wicked people will go to hell.” Really? Then what happens to young women who writhe around onscreen and wear crosses as bling? Not my place to say, of course, but if I were Madonna and had had a great awakening, I think I’d shut the heck up for a long, lonnnng time.
Similarly, I don’t mean to cast too much doubt on the reality of Ann Rice’s experience, but I don’t understand someone who has written as much pulp fiction as she has feeling like the correct response to a Christian conversion is to write a book about “the authentic Jesus.” What the hay? We have those — in fact, we have four of them, and they’re all neatly packaged together with 18 sequels. And for a limited time only, you can find this beautifully bound volume in any hotel room dresser. (No, NOT the Book of Mormon. Don’t get me started.)
Other reason to take celebrity conversions with a grain of salt — are they really ready to be a part of the suffering church? But then again, are any of us?
Related posts:
- The Orthodox convert list
- Let’s play Judicial Nominee Twister!
- The return of Phillip of the Fountain Pen
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