Comments on: Eat, Pray, Love: a travel memoir

By: Wendell

Wendell — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:03:30 +0000

Cheri is right. It’s amazing how this book is a best seller in our “Chistian” nation when it openly advocates drunkenness, adultery, idol worship, and witchcraft. Her pursuit of religious experience to number her pain is blatantly self-centered and entirely subjective. It appeals to Americans because it promotes that truth is what ever you want it to be and all religions are the same. Sad. And yes I read the book.

By: Cheri Hamilton

Cheri Hamilton — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 05:59:10 +0000

This book is right on schedule. Jesus warned that just before His return deception would abound. This really old message from the Satanic Snake in the Garden of Eden who lied that you could become like god. This is the New Age Message and it keeps popping up, again and again in various forms and people eat it up like candy!Jesus taught that “I Am the Way the Truth and the Light” and that no man could come to the Father except thru Him, Jesus. Good works are filthy rags to God apart from Jesus and His will. Who on this earth has lived and walked in “love” more than Jesus?

By: Meg

Meg — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:53:47 +0000

Monica, I’m not sure what you are, but you are definitely NOT a christian, what the heck do you Think that means anyways?!!!

By: huibo

huibo — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:56:14 +0000

I guess the non-believers may not believe in God, heaven, and hell, but they have the same fear and expectations towards the unknown... huibos last blog post..Queen Sea Big Shark at Modern Sky Festival 08

By: Nicole/wksocmom

Nicole/wksocmom — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:16:34 +0000

I just finished this for a book club and loved it. Just wanted to recommend another memoir we read for our last book – Waiting for Snow in Havana – really, really excellent.

Nicole/wksocmoms last blog post..Photohunt: Pointed

By: Elizabeth Gilbert, Rhonda Byne, Oprah and Christians (no, this is not a really bad joke) | Paper Bridges

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:31:16 +0000

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By: Monica Brand

Monica Brand — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:04:38 +0000

Genevieve,

Thank you for your comment. I’m going to address your concerns in a separate post.

By: Genevieve Duncan

Genevieve Duncan — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:53:43 +0000

The autho believes that many gods, or religions can become part of ones life, and these will channel into one god , the “right God” –> absolutely shocking.

Oprah is playing a dangerous game.. promoting the secret, and promoting yet another New age book, eat pray love.

Think of Hitler, a man that was responsible for the death of millions of people, thes people may have died believeing the true creator, these people may have died saved.

Hitler could take that away from them.. we all know where he is though.

But what about a woman like the author of The Scret who is leading millions of souls astray?

Playing with their soul, their eternal life.

What will happen to her, and what will happen to Oprah?

By: Monica Brand

Monica Brand — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:20:51 +0000

So many questions! I\’m going to have to re-read the book, I simply don\’t remember how she financed the trip or even exactly why she went on the journey in the first place.
Tina, I\’m not big into judging folks either, so I\’m going to let Gayle and Traci have their say. Of course, you know I\’d much prefer they read the book too, for the sake of this discussion, but that\’s okay. I once wrote a newspaper column regarding movies nominated for a Best Picture Oscar – and I hadn\’t seen one of them. Wow, you wouldn\’t believe the letters to the editor! Ha. That was fun.

As for having a relationship with Christ without a Bible… you\’d be hard pressed to make the commitment real, deep and lasting. But that\’s just my opinion and not a judgment on you at all.

By: Tina

Tina — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:54:40 +0000

Gayle and Traci comments are the reason I dislike organized religion. They don’t accept a person’s road to God that doesn’t reflect their own way of travel. They dismiss Ms. Gilbert, yet they don’t read the book. So how can they really comment on something they don’t know. (Reading the book jacket doesn’t count)

Did you ever think that all of Ms. Gilbert’s misery was because she was looking for God, but knew she wouldn’t find him in the marriage that she had? Maybe she wasn’t running away from her problems, but trying correct her life, and had to travel a path that her husband didn’t want to walk.

Sometimes the way people find God is not the way you would do it, nor the way you practice your way to God. The point is not to JUDGE. You can have a personal relationship with our lord and saviour without a bible, a church, etc. All you need is a quiet space, and hour, maybe a mat and your mind. Nothing wrong with chanting good things to get God’s attention.

By: JAGray

JAGray — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:59:34 +0000

Where did she get all her money?

By: Monica Brand

Monica Brand — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:33:33 +0000

I’m not aware of anyone calling it their Bible. Obviously those people aren’t believers if Eat, Pray, Love is their holy book.

One of the reasons I like to read these types of books, books that reveal how people react to problems, etc., is to understand how non-believers think. Plus, I’ve been to Indonesia, that was a big draw for me too.

As for Gilbert running away, I saw it more as running to a grand adventure, and she did come back. I’d love to live overseas again.

By: Traci

Traci — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:35:32 +0000

The very fact that people kept calling it their bible was enough to make me go hmmm???? I have read a lot of really good books in my life but only one would I ever call my Bible and that is The Bible that teaches about Jesus not how to run away from my life when it gets icky. I don’t think I will be reading this book.

By: Gayle

Gayle — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 16:32:31 +0000

I saw Melissa Gilbert on Oprah yesterday. (I have not read her book, nor had I even heard of it before yesterday.) I found her to be a likable person and felt like she was leading me to a this table full of good things to eat, yet when I tasted what she offered I did not feel satisfied. Unfortunately others will be satisfied with these leaving, and they may miss out on the true feast that is found in a loving relationship with Jesus Christ.
Oh Lord, may I be a woman of influence and lead others to your table.

By: soleil

soleil — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:19:28 +0000

i thoroughly enjoyed this book and am fascinated by the varied reactions that different people have to it. and thank you for the laughter you induced by the memory of the ‘family mini-van.’

By: books are our friends » Blog Archive » Woman’s book backlash

books are our friends » Blog Archive » Woman’s book backlash — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:44:42 +0000

[...] I’m not weary of reading about Christianity in general. I’ve been thinking of re-reading Celebration of Discipline by Richard J. Foster for awhile now. I first read it in my college days years ago and I don’t remember much. Written in 1978, revised in 1988, it’s now regarded as a classic. Foster, a Quaker, writes about meditation, fasting, service and simplicity among other disciplines that should be the commom practice of the Christian’s life. [...]

By: Marie

Marie — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:23:07 +0000

I found Angela’s Ashes depressing.

I took note of her prayer to God to deliver her from her husband and impending family. That seems to me clueless.

I share your absorption in other people’s memoirs, though. I get right into their head and am loathe to leave.