I am really enjoying this Montanus reading. I asked earlier what order this book will be in the Iron Kingdom series because it’s doing such a good job of driving home the point of every other book in the series, so far. It covers slander, Paul’s gospel, Christianity, the Apostates, etc. You can feel that familiar Christian spirit and the absurdity in everything Montanus’ accusers were saying, contrasted with the love and the relief and the right spirit in Montanus’s responses. I just loved it. It was very plain and easy to follow.
It struck me that this was not only some dialogue that took place centuries ago, but we have actually lived through and witnessed first-hand those same kinds of slanderous accusations against you (us), and your responses have been very similar to what we read from Montanus (the same spirit). I know you begin the book with your personal experience in dealing with the slander and accusations from the newspaper article, (I love that introduction), but I wonder if you might add at the end (or somewhere), a few of the accusations that have been railed against you in the past, along with your response to those accusations, as a way to show that you are writing about a history that still exists. I don’t know if you want to dredge any of that up, but it certainly goes with what we just read tonight.
Wow! Jesus is helping you defeat that ol’ anaconda! I am happy for you!
Lee Ann