Twilight As Anti Christian
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After reading Twilight, I became curious as to what attitudes were conservative Christians to take the book and film. I did an internet search for Christian Twilight and came up with some points of view I was expecting, I have agreed with, and an article that was extremely bizarre..
posted by Christer @ 2:17 AM
4 Comments:
At December 20, 2008 at 2:47 PM ,
zoe the random princess said...
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At December 20, 2008 at 11:16 PM ,
Unknown said...
twilight is amazing i thought it was the best series their ever has been... the movie was even better than titanic romance and suspence wise
At December 21, 2008 at 7:03 PM ,
Lisa S. said...
Interesting points of view...
But my thought on the entire vampire genre is that imagination is key to enjoying it. Everyone will find something to complain about, no matter the subject of a story.
Vampires may not fit the Christian mold, but they are fun fantastical creatures. Imagination goes a long way.
Oh, and Twilight is awesome. :)
At December 23, 2008 at 5:13 PM ,
Oldonariel said...
I just ran across this blog. Here are some of Chuck Colson's thoughts on it.
This love story between a vampire and a high school girl looks like it’s selling a pro-abstinence message. And several Christians and conservative commentators have bought into that image and are enthusiastic about it—which isn’t hard to understand.
If we had found a book or a movie that really offered a healthy, chaste, chivalrous vision of romance that was attracting teenagers by the millions, well, that would indeed be cause for rejoicing. And I’d be as eager as anyone to climb on the bandwagon and help promote them.
But unfortunately, I can’t do that this time. Because underneath the surface, there are some truly disturbing themes and ideas in Twilight. Chief among these is that old, dangerous idea that a “bad boy” can easily be won and tamed by a “good girl”—an idea that has brought heartache to untold millions of good girls. As a Christian, I obviously believe that redemption and change is possible for sinners. But I also know that human beings alone cannot change each other.
So when you’re talking to your daughter about Twilight, here are a few points you might touch on.
It is not romantic, or safe, when a boy spies on you, follows you, and sneaks into your room without your knowledge (and especially without your parents’ knowledge).
It is not romantic, or safe, when someone tells you he’s dangerous and he’s killed people, to give answers like, “It doesn’t matter,” and, “I’m not afraid.” Again, I’ve worked with repentant murderers in prison. I know firsthand that redemption is possible for them. But that doesn’t mean that what they’ve done doesn’t matter.
It is not romantic, or safe, to try to see how close you and your boyfriend can get to the edge of danger without going over.
And it is not romantic, or safe, to offer yourself up for a boy to do whatever he wants to you—symbolized in the movie by the young heroine asking the vampire to bite her so she can become like him.
I know that Christian parents already have to spend a lot of time undoing the damaging lessons that their children are being taught—by the culture, by their peers, and even by their schools.
But it says something very sad about our culture when we have to argue that a young girl dating a dangerous killer is not a good role model, even if they are being abstinent.
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