Sometimes I see something, or just come to know about something that just makes me laugh, or at least wonder what on earth people were thinking. One such thing that I just recently found out existed are “Christian romances.” O.K, so when I say that I don’t know what people were thinking when they created Christian romances, maybe I was exaggerating a little bit, because I know that when people write these things, a ton of single Christian girls are going to read them.
It does kind of intrigue me though, because I know that for the most part Christians are not capable of doing anything that takes a page out of popular culture without making it just cheesy. You know what I am talking about: those t-shirts that have the skittles logo on them but instead of saying “skittles” it says “scriptures.” So when I picture Christian romance novels I picture the photo on the cover looking a lot like those on regular romance novels, except instead of sensuously holding onto each other both people are sensuously holding onto a cross, with wind blowing through their hair. As for the story line, it probably would be like the regular romance novels except less sex and they both come closer to God in some way or another. Of course there will be sex at the end, but only after they are married, and the book will probably play it up as one of the most intense experience in the world, but it’s alright because they are married.
People will probably read them, which is kind of weird to think about coming from a Christian College campus. I say this because girls on this campus already have this extremely romantic view of how relationships should be. Maybe this is because “relationships are ordained by God” and therefore there is this kind of mystical idea that comes with them, at least this is how I always thought of it. I have not read a Christian romance novel, but I can definitely see the same mindset coming into play here. The girl finds the one guy in the world that God has chosen for her. Out of all people in the world, God has one person in mind for each person to marry, and in these books I can see people finding that one person and having an amazing relationship with them. Maybe I should not be knocking them too badly without reading them, but then again the alternative is reading them and then making an informed decision and why would I do that?
