I suspect that if the JCI God was as easily offended as folks seem to think, we would all be smoking puddles from the latest lightning bolt.
Sperran
But of course, we are not. Which says either the JCI guy doesn't give a good damn, or that he is out of lightening bolts, or (worse) that he never HAD lightening bolts.
Or, just maybe, it is the uptight clergy fearing that the "faithful" will read a silly novel and get an independent idea or two. Honestly, when Church leadership acts like a petulant 13 year old.....it makes more than my eyes roll.