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@mlbolangerauthor @josiah Honestly, I don’t read books that challenge me. I read books for entertainment, and find my challenges elsewhere. ;P

I probably wouldn’t read a book knowing it was about LGBT stuff. If it wasn’t marketed as Christian, I would assume that it would be pro-LGBT, and I am not the type of person who can read a book like that and can come away unscratched. It would subtly affect my thinking into think that that is okay. Even secondhand exposure to the Supernatural fandom with Dean and Castiel shipping online shifts my thinking. I don’t even watch the show. So I can’t read stuff like that, for my own sake.

If it was marketed as Christian, I still probably wouldn’t read it, unless it was recommended to me. There are a couple of reasons why. 1) I don’t have a huge amount of respect for books marketed as “Christian”. I feel like they get a pass for being of a lesser quality because they are “Christian”. 2) I don’t really read outside of fantasy/sci-fi/historical/occasionally-mystery. I just don’t find general fiction interesting. 3) As people have said, Christians don’t have a lot of experience in these areas, and I wouldn’t trust them to handle it correctly.

@sarah-inkdragon

Last time I checked, Jesus chose sinners as his disciples, not Pharisees.

I have thought that so many times!