tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1175798629534874434.post2215812228876469129..comments2024-03-03T23:03:20.977-08:00Comments on Talk Stephen King: Does Stephen King Hate Christianity?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1175798629534874434.post-56320552738150996032014-07-25T21:00:18.307-07:002014-07-25T21:00:18.307-07:00Count me a puritan. The heart of what I am saying...Count me a puritan. The heart of what I am saying is that puritan's ought to listen as much as they talk. <br /><br />I did think it was funny when I read conservatives actually at the border helping children ask what Stephen King was doing to help the children, other than ranting on twitter!. David Squyreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16632008924923459612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1175798629534874434.post-44003280241670731802014-07-25T20:21:36.421-07:002014-07-25T20:21:36.421-07:00I actually think you’ve hit on an important aspect...I actually think you’ve hit on an important aspect of King’s fiction. After studying up on this, I’ve arrived at the conclusion that the great majority of his work is, in one sense or another, a reaction not against Christianity, but rather Puritanism.<br /><br />Here’s what I mean. I think a case can be made that what King is doing is basically the same thing that Nathaniel Hawthorne did back in his day. Both writers were and are New Englanders, both were raised in the same culture that had, as it’s background, the Puritan settlers of Plymouth. Also, both are in reaction against the Puritan ethos, and it’s effect on America at large, Hawthorne more or less consciously, King perhaps more unconsciously.<br /><br />Either way, it seems to me that both writers don’t look at Puritanism as a part of Christianity itself, and more it’s own strange off-shoot (perhaps a heresy?). King, like Hawthorne, shows an awareness of how a lot of life in America seems out-of-joint, and both more or less trace it back to the same kind of mindset that created the Salem witchcraft trials. I think it may be possible that with the upcoming “Revival”, King will place this theme front and center. A good for my thinking on this is Tony Magistrale’s “Moral Voayges of Stephen King”, in particular Magistral makes great connections between King, Hawthorne, and Puritanism.<br /><br />ChrisCPrisonerNumber6https://www.blogger.com/profile/03156430802462353459noreply@blogger.com