North! Or Be Eaten! blog tour day three

In the last blog tour post, I offered to share my thoughts about Christian fiction if enough of you clap your hands and say you do believe in fairies. Krysti does and responded as requested: so here it is.

ALL fiction publishers censor what they will and will not print. ALL fiction publishers insist that their authors show a basic respect for the publishers' faith. For a Christian publisher, the faith desired is centered in Jesus Christ. For a secular publisher the preferred faith may be secularism, or agnosticism, or global warming, or Gay marriage.

Some people, perhaps, read Christian fiction because they want a safe read. I like it because it's dangerous. In secular fiction the worst that can happen to you is that you die. And everybody dies eventually--- even Captain Jack of Torchwood/Doctor Who fame (in fact, he dies lots). But in Christian fiction your eternal soul can become the devil's lunchmeat. How's THAT for something to worry about?

When I read secular fiction, I'm always running across anti-Christian moments--- Christian 'fanatics' as the villains, as in the Fellowship of the Sun in Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire Series (have you noticed, though, that the Fellowship is kind of right about vampires, vamps do tend to rack up quite a body count there...) In Christian fiction, I don't have to cope with that (though many Evangelical/Protestant authors tend to think 'works-righteousness' when they see a Catholic coming they rarely feel the need to make a big deal out of it.)

Christian writer C. S. Lewis got his very Christian science fiction and fantasy published by secular publishers. Christian writer Orson Scott Card won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for Ender's Game even though his LDS faith wasn't exactly a secret. But now things seem to be getting more polarized. A certain side of the debate over faith/nonfaith is getting deafer and deafer to any opinion but their own, which tends to make the other side turn inward to our own Christian books and films, at least some of the time. It's sad, but it's what is going on today.

What do you think? Why do you read Christian fiction (if you do)? What do YOU feel is the purpose of having Christian fiction as a genre?

North! Or Be Eaten! recap
Though I have not personally had a chance to read the book in question, reading the many reviews along the blog tour trail have convinced me that this is a thrilling book with compelling characters that many people--- of various ages--- might enjoy.

To get a complete picture of the blog tour, visit Rebecca LuElla Miller's post. She gives the complete blog tour list with checkmarks next to the name for each tour post--- click the checkmark, and you can read the North! Or Be Eaten! blog post. You can also see who has made three, two or one blog posts on the tour.

Hang out with the CSFF blog tour this month
Look at the left sidebar of this blog. You will see a blogroll that includes ALL of the participants in this month's blog tour, and their most recent blog post. You can come back to this blog from time to time, not to read MY bizarre musings, but to check out what CSFF members are blogging about this month, perhaps drop an encouraging word on one or two of them.

(This was pretty easy to set up, by the way. At least on Blogger. It's a way to help your fellow bloggers reach a wider audience--- which, of course, helps YOUR blog as well.)


North! Or Be Eaten! - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400073871
Series site - http://wingfeathersaga.com/?p=464Author site - http://www.andrew-peterson.com/

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