What is with our obsession with vampires? Doesn't anyone remember what a vampire is?
According to Dictionary.com --
"Vampire: a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night."
Now think about everything ever to be associated with vampires: lust, drinking human blood (an act expressly forbidden in the Bible), pentagrams, giving the soul over to demonic principals. Vampires ARE evil. What could possibly convince us that vampiric ideologies are something to be emulated?
Answer: Romance. What person (especially girls) wouldn't love to read about that forbidden love story? Rat poison is 99.99% good food, only .01% is poison. Whenever someone mixes something evil with something so captivating to read, we instantly become hooked. Anyone who believes vampires are good does not have the facts. Vampires promote that which God despises. How could we wish to support books or movies that go against our Lord?I don't mean to pick on this series in particular, but take the book/movie rage saga Twilight. What is it really telling us? Evil can be trusted. Evil is misunderstood. Evil isn't really evil. Evil is beautiful. Evil is wiser than good. And Evil should be joined. How will this affect our thinking? Could it ever be positive? Could it ever bring us closer to God? Not in the slightest. In fact, if anything, it would be like eating rat poison, slowly wearing your spirit down.
3 comments:
Assuming that all you have said is true,
If there is a way to get a "message" out of something like this, would we be able to use that to help engage the culture?
Can we use this kind of thing as a stepping stone to talk with friends?
Are there ways to converse that may not turn folks off of our message before we even get the opportunity. There are folks that take their entertainment choices as a very personal thing.
Derrick
this was good! Hey, you don't know me, but I am a writter for Passion Magazine! So, that is how I found your blog.
Well reserched.
Thanks so much for commenting. I really appreciate it. I just like to shed some light on normally gazed over or dismissed topics.
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