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"Twilight" movie, ever heard of?

On a summer night in June 2003, while sleeping with her husband and three children at his home in suburban Phoenix, United States, Stephenie Meyer, then 29 years, dreamed about the romantic encounter between a teenage girl and a vampire in a rainy evening.
The next morning, according to his account, ceased to be a typical housewife to become a writer.

In three months, he wrote 416 pages of "Twilight," the first of four volumes of the saga, greater literary phenomenon since Harry Potter, "the boy wizard."

In the books of the saga, the formula is converted from Stephenie horror stories in novels sweet. His vampires do not have big teeth sharp, do not bite and there is blood in the corner of his mouth. The action is slowed down to make way for the human drama that drives the narrative. All peppered by veiled erotic tension between the two characters.

The books in the series "Twilight" has sold over 25 million copies worldwide with translations into 37 different languages.

Like Harry Potter, Twilight has also inspired in the occult and have achieved an enormous amount of adolescents, especially girls.

This phenomenon makes us reflective:

The fact that a work that stirs the supernatural too much success reveals what we already know: young people are thirsty for God, while seeking in places as varied as drugs, exotic or tribal participation in such readings;

On the other hand we see the overcoming of the border that once existed between good and evil, that border we had more or less clear when we were children, who protected us, even more by fear than by Christian conviction.

Relativism has emptied the meaning of truth and has led the youth to seek experiences devoid of sense "but that move" and holding the suspense and adventure.

It is true that the vast majority do not see any problem in a work of fiction that has the character a "vampire", because, as I heard in a recent sermon on the subject of some young people who surrounded me after school: "Vampires do not exist ... is only a novel ..., everyone is reading ... "

The author is American, Mormon, married to a pastor of this name is not Christian.

His work is more the one that goes in the same direction to deny the evil of the occult, emptying it of piety and featuring characters symbolically and culturally associated with the occult, such as vampires and werewolves, almost human characters that interact with normal and love!

In preaching mentioned above, I asked students whether they knew who they were vampires and most did not.

I asked them why vampires can not stand the light or Christian symbols like the crucifix, because they sleep during the day and come out only at night. Why sleep in coffins. None knew.

In fact, the work seeks to "revise" the whole meaning of presents vampirism as "vegetarian" vampires, who feed only on animal blood, not human, although the work there are vampires that feed on human blood, implying that there vampires "good", which "control." It also seeks to remove the religious connotation, making no mention of crucifixos.No movie, for example, one sees that the house has a vegetarian vampires that cross, inside the house as well as that great to show that this kind of antagonism ceased to exist, the main actor of the film lives in identity crisis, feeling "murderer" because he once killed for food ... The vampires of "Twilight" has to crisis of conscience.

For the loss of the sense of faith that has no importance for most young people.

Besides faith, also the loss or lack of spiritual reality behind issues like this. (Check out Ephesians 6:10)

It makes little difference that there are tribes of young people identified with the vampires here in Fortaleza, already covered and evangelized by us here at Shalom

That vampires exist today experts "see:

http://www.contonoturno.hpg.com.br/entrevista/robertogoldkorn.html;

That, along with sound understanding that, in fact vampires are mythological figures, however there is also the fact that the "real vampirism", made by people who "find themselves vampires," who like blood .. And the drink!

If you have stomach, put in Google "real vampirism" 808 000 and find answers! It's unbelievable but REAL! if you want to read some link, Get Ready!

This "glamor" Demon in vampires is a young and truly Christian can not and should not waste your time reading "Twilight," although there is nothing much to read some works of fiction, provided it is clear separation of truth and falsehood and Do not mess with the realities associated with evil, so explicitly or not positively deny the values ​​of our Christian culture.

The vision of the oldest vampires in our time a child was more "honest" because he spoke of these mythic figures, living in castles in Europe, (today they are American, "children" of the cultural matrix of the world, exporting Halloweens and concepts anti evangelicals) were evil people, but always in the end defeated by the power of the cross or stake in the chest. We were afraid! Vampires today, at least the TV and movies do not create fear. Not bad ...

The problem of how this works and how Harry Potter is the disruption of light and darkness. No more separation of the supernatural and natural, everything is one thing; truth and no lie, it is my "belief and use of this belief" that does things well or más.No Twilight vampires live with that tension feed on animal blood and vampires that feed on beings humanos.O food changes but the essence is the same.

In the case of Harry Potter, for example, advocates say the witch in the film has two sides and that the issue is not witchcraft, but the use of witchcraft is what makes it good or bad, forgetting that witchcraft is inherently a bad concept, anti evangelical, even if you intend to use it for good, as we know, the good end does not justify the use of a bad way.

Twilight is presented in a novel, beautifully written, the author enriches and impoverishes the readers. Light and darkness are one, there is no longer the frontier set, essential for a critical position and a Christian.

It's funny that the world today have the concept of truth and falsehood is always seen as a sign of "pre" concept or exaggeration. In a world where "truth" goes to a second side to the other conveniences, have firmly of opinion is to be "fanatical."

In fact, as Christians, we must have clear and defined concepts, grounded in revelation in Scripture and the Magisterium of the Church. We can not be easy victims of fashion "Potter's" - has been forgotten, but leaving the trail opening for "Twilight and the like" ..

Perhaps, for whom we read, the subject of "vampirism" seems marginal, but try an experiment and put in Google the word "vampire" and you will see three million eight hundred thousand search results with that word. If you add "real vampires" to "image vampires" have more than six million hits ... The term "vampire" has but results on Google than the term "Jesus Christ", with 3.34 million!

And our young people what to do?

Well. They are looking .. are beautiful in their search for truth, they need to present Jesus Christ in response to their desires and sense of eternity.

They are caught by the surrounding culture, which reach into the void of the absence of Christian formation; of our families who sin through ignorance and our inability to follow "the news", not so new, this world, that keeps going in search of disoriented truth.

SOURCE: http://www.comshalom.org/blog/carmadelio/192-crepusculoja-ouviu-falar

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