Religion in SK Books

[The Marsten House]

I am just finishing a pretty good horror title I picked up for the Kindle called "Stalker" by Dave Dykema. It has some religious themes running through it. It's not the main theme, but more like sub-themes. The main threat has to do with a cult though. That's an example of the extreme religious wackos that often show up in novels, like Carrie's mother and some of the other examples in this post. So it shows up everywhere. "Stalker" did try to show some other points of view to keep things balanced. I'm not sure how well it succeeded, but at least this author tried.

[karend3]

He is just proving there are extremes on both sides. Fanatics can use religion to justify their own sins. Judging others, blowing up abortion centers, etc...

[michal]

I have to admit I used to find Mr. King's book ever so slightly "Too Christian" is there is such a thing. The boy in desperation, the haunted priest in the cycle of werewolves, the lit cross in Salem's lot, Mother Abigail and her "Let Your Will Be Done" God, they all seemed to taste very Christian when I was 14 and reading them for the first time.

My opinions have changes though, since then. I've learned to identify more with the God figure in Mr. King's books. I now find it more of a Jewish God -not in the sense of "the god of the Jews", nut as in - an "Old Testament God". He does not forgive, turn the other cheek, embrace or does right. He is an angry God, a vengeance God that wipes the just and unjust in the same ball of lightning and makes his loyal followers suffer the most. He is, in some way, The One who Walks Behind the Rows, and I, like that girl at the end of Children of the Corn, feel equal amounts of Love, Fear and Hate towards him.

Sorry if I've trampled on anyone's religious believes in my hectic enthusiasm - I assure you if I did it was purely out of literary zealotry and very unintentional.