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I've generally found Christian fiction to be pretty god-awful, but... I'm Jewish, so, you know... maybe the themes don't resonate with me.
Things that are made to "be" religious always strikes me a bit off (Christian Rock, for instance.) There's so many gorgeous hymns and operas, and then there's that garbage they keep advertising on the history channel late at night. I always find the quality to be terrible but people somehow let it go because Jesus is in there somewhere.
That being said... I'm a rather religious person myself, and I don't have any problems with Christianity either (in fact, I just presented a 13 page paper beating down on Sam Harris's "Letter to a Christian Nation") I just generally find things that are mediocre in the name of religion even more distasteful than mediocre things that aren't.
I'm sure there's some good stuff out there... each to their own. But I live in Oklahoma, and the "Christian" book stores here are pretty over the top - that may have biased me.
As for those "Left Behind" books.... cripes. What a wonderful combination of bad writing and bad theology.
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