As can be seen in her profile, Erica reads this board very often.
According her profile, yesterday she visited us...
What did she mean in her statement when she said:
"I love my fans, and I love YOU. I want YOU to feel this peace. I want YOU to get out of the darkness that is all around you. You can not live with one foot in Christ and one in the world", "I will not and can not desert my friends and fans", "I will not abandon you"...
At first I thought she would be using her site to defend her new thoughts, but since then she has been silent. In what way she will not abandon her fans? I feel a little abandoned by her... I want to hear from her her.
I think she has to disconnect. The problem for her is temptation. Look at it like alcoholism. If you are likely to fall off the wagon, you won't take a walk by the bar you used to frequent, much less go inside to say hi. Or at least she shouldn't if what she says is true about her faith. She has to quit cold turkey and never look back. But there is always the simple curiosity of "what are people saying or thinking about me?" It's natural. She lived a life where thousands of people thought about her on a daily basis and to suddenly go to a point where that HAS to change for her is not easy. We should respect the fact that she wants to better herself.
No she isn't cheating her faith...it's not about us and her, it's about Her and God. She needs to do what is right for HER, not what we think she should do for us. Christianity isn't about religion, it's about a PERSONAL relationship to God, not a public relationship. What I'm saying is that she might not want to forsake her fans but to her, that is the old life she's trying to leave behind. She can't have it both ways or she will fall back into the old lifestyle she's trying to get away from. That's called temptation...hers.
Whether you agree or not, that's the choice she's made and we all have to live with it, but most importantly, SHE has to live with it.