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Ellen White and Fiction
Many have read the comments of Ellen White on fiction and wondered what she could have meant. Is she really condemning fiction of all kinds? I have long pondered this myself, trying to make realistic sense of it.
A Sampling of Ellen White’s Statements
A few quotes will suffice to give us an idea of the nature of her comments:
- “That mind is ruined which is allowed to be absorbed in story-reading. The imagination becomes diseased, sentimentalism takes possession of the mind, and there is a vague unrest, a strange appetite for unwholesome mental food, which is constantly unbalancing the mind. Thousands are today in the insane asylum whose minds became unbalanced by novel reading, which results in air-castle building and lovesick sentimentalism.” – The Signs of
