When did "Christian" become a synonym for "crap"

One century, you've got Bach, another century, you've got Li'l Markie. Christianity has really gone downhill from its prior status as the font of funding for culture and art and intellectual endeavor to being the being the bottom of the barrel source for kitsch and crap. Case in point: Denyse O'Leary's hideous, horrible, talentless hackery has been nominated for a Canadian Christian Writing Award. Even setting aside the fact that I disagreed vehemently with the content of the book, if you judge it on the quality of the writing, it doesn't deserve recognition, it warrants condemnation — it's probably the worst-written bit of tripe to cross my desk all year long, and that's saying a lot. I've got a few people trying to persuade me to review their Christian apocalyptic fantasy novels, and O'Leary's book is more incoherent than those.

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