[ SECRET POST #5206 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5206 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[(Anonymous)]

Librarian anon here.

Nailed it! Those are the people I have in my area, and that's the type of media they like to consume.

[(Anonymous)]

SA

It's so limiting. I mean Janette Oke, Lori Wick, Gilbert Morris have made entire careers out of writing the same... thing honestly... over and over dressed up in different time periods and places. (The Amish authors, I don't know. I just... I stopped paying attention.) It is literally the harlequin CLEAN YA romance of the Christian World. Like, um, I don't know how many times violence against women was used as a plot trope. Or just the blatant ignorance of certain time periods.

I remember reading once christian fantasy novel which had some really COOL ideas but suddenly we had an entire "eating meat is bad" plot line. It was insane! (And how they work Christianity into scifi/fantasy settings is insane btw. Lewis at least had his "what if God made different realities" thing. And Tolkien is okay b/c they don't actually READ that deeply into it to even GET the Norse influences. Tolkien is Christian so LotR HAS to be okay. Okay, sure...)

These types of books, in my experience, lead to a distinct lack of critical thinking because they are so heavily sanitized, white washed, and SIMPLY written you don't even have to think.

So, yeah, that is like the tip of my iceberg rant. Apparently a christian author recently created a pseudonym to try and make a Christian YA Dystopia novel have more of a "broader" appeal by not being associated with her blantant anti sex, anti-feminism, homophobic views... and couldn't even come up with a new backstory and picture so was immediately outed complete with rivaling videos about how/why she came up with idea and err... published by Tynsdale House the same publisher that does Bibles and Francine Rivers. So, she'd be put in Christian rather than YA anyways. It is insane the lengths they'll go to LIE to try and "spread" their toxic views.

I'm sorry. I just... can't. Like take the rest of publishing and dial it up to eleven and you've got Christian publishing.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt but this is fascinating, thanks for typing it up.

[(Anonymous)]

SA

You're welcome. White Evangelical Christian "Culture" (if you can call it that given how many rip offs it can do) is so baffling and I lived in it!