The Gospel of Stephen King

[becca69]

This article is featured on CNN.com this morning:

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/0...ing/?hpt=hp_c1

[Shannon]

An interesting read, and I do feel that there is a lot of religious/faith themes in a lot of his works. But at the same time, if you look closely at anything and twist what you see, you can see just about anything in just about anything, lol.

[jhanic]

The quotation in the first paragraph was not King's--it was originally from Robert Block (author of, among many others, Psycho.)

John

[Shannon]

Yes, but he DID steal it for his own use, lol.

[RichardX]

In a very broad sense - maybe. There are certainly elements of good vs evil which is classic religious storyline, but I don't get the feeling King is a believer in organized religion or attempts to convey that in his books. Simply that there is some greater power at work.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

I've always felt that the Green Mile was a Christ metaphor, but I never made the connection with John Coffey's initials. Interesting.

[jhanic]

I noticed the initials when I read the first book.

John