It was going to be my big break. My books were going to be reviewed by a big-name critic I had actually heard of.
Until he decided they were so crawling with subliminal Calvinism, he shouldn’t even mention them.
These are fantasy novels. They depict an imaginary world. I detest fantasies that remind me I’m only looking at words on paper. For me to load Bell Mountain with sly Calvinist insinuations would be to break my own rules.
Who we are is always going to have a bearing on what we write. Otherwise we wouldn’t be writing in the first place. If I wanted a Greek Orthodox slant to my story, I’d have to work and study hard to acquire it. Much of who we are is what we’re used to.
I don’t think my books are biased against one particular branch of Christianity or another. I try not to be. This blog serves readers of many different denominations–or no denomination. I rather hoped my books would do the same.
It is human to hold biases. We have to work very hard to avoid that, but I didn’t see any particular bias in your writing; only that which is unavoidable by any human. I think, to make that determination, the reader had to have his own bias.
Of course you have a bias – you are biased that the Christian religion is the true religion and that the Holy Bible is the inerrant, infallible Word of God.