Dean Koontz is a major author of fiction and has sold over 500 million copies of his books, with several of his works being bestsellers. Back in 2007, he did an interview with a correspondent from the National Catholic Register. I just happened to stumble across this interview and decided to read it.
"Catholicism permits a view of life that sees mystery and wonder in all things, which Protestantism does not easily allow. As a Catholic, I saw the world as being more mysterious, more organic, and less mechanical than it had seemed to me previously, and I had a more direct connection with God."
This is a fascinating statement, and I wish that he had gone a little more in detail about this divide, but those of us who have been spiritually on both sides of the Tiber know precisely what he's talking about.
In my own background, we never spoke about saints, miracles, or the sacraments. We never spoke about the supernatural. The material world were totally shut off from the spiritual world. Which raises a question... why do some sectors in the Protestant world have this divide between the material and spiritual world? Why is there an aversion and a sometimes unhealthy fear of candles, the communion of saints, and the spiritual world in general?
This isn't present in all areas of the Protestant world as Anglicanism, as the world's largest Protestant denomination, and perhaps to a lesser degree, Lutheranism, do not have this material/spiritual divide.
The full interview can be read in its entirety by clicking here
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