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Movie "Twilight" has heard?

One summer evening in June 2003 while he slept with her husband and three children at his home in suburban Phoenix, USA, Stephenie Meyer, then 29 years, dreamed about the romantic encounter between a teenager and a vampire in a rainy evening.
The next morning, according to his account, is no longer a typical housewife to become a writer.

In three months, wrote 416 pages of "Twilight," the first of four volumes of the saga, the largest since Harry Potter literary phenomenon, "Boy Wizard".

In the books of the saga, Stephenie's formula is to convert horror stories in novels sweet. His vampires do not have dentões sharp, do not bite and there is blood in the corner of his mouth. The action is slowed down to give place to the human drama that drives the narrative. All spiced up by hidden erotic tension between the two characters.

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

Like Harry Potter, Twilight has also inspired by the occult and have achieved a huge amount of teenagers, especially girls.

This phenomenon makes us reflective:

The fact that a work that stirs the supernatural do so successfully reveals what we already know: young people thirst for God, but seek in places as varied as drugs, participation in tribal or exotic reads like this;

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, to protect us, even more by fear than by Christian conviction.

Relativism has emptied the sense of truth and has led the youth to get experience devoid of meaning "but that thrill" 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 have heard in a recent sermon on the subject of some young people who surrounded me after school, "Vampire does not exist ... it's just a novel ... everybody're reading ... "

The author is American, Mormon, married to a pastor that no Christian denomination.

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

In the sermon quoted above, I asked students whether they knew who were the 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.

Actually the book tries to "revise" the whole meaning of vampirism as it features "vegetarian" vampires, which feed only on animal blood, not human, despite the work there are vampires who 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 in her vampire vegetarians have a cross inside the house, as well as large to show that this kind of antagonism ceased to exist, the main actor of the film lives in identity crisis, feeling "murderer" for having once killed for food ... The vampires of "Twilight" has until the crisis of conscience.

By losing the sense of faith that has no relevance to most young people.

Beyond belief, also the loss or lack of spiritual realities 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 addressed and evangelized for us here at Shalom

That vampires exist today experts' see:

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

That, along with sound understanding of what actually vampires are mythological figures, yet there is also the fact that the "real vampire", made by people who "find themselves vampires," who like blood .. And drink!

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

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

The older view of vampires, the child of our time, was more "honest" as he spoke these mythic figures, living in castles in Europe, (today they are American, "children" of the cultural matrix of the world, exporting concepts and Halloweens anti evangelicals) were evil beings, but always defeated in the end, the strength of the cross or stake in the chest. We were scared! Vampires today, at least the TV and film do not generate fear. Not bad ...

The problem of how this works and how Harry Potter is the disruption of light and darkness. There is more separation of natural and supernatural world, everything is one thing, truth and falsehood do not exist, it is my "belief and use of this belief" that do things well or más.No Twilight vampires live with tension which feed on animal blood and vampires that feed on food humanos.O beings change but the essence is the same.

In the case of Harry Potter, for example, its proponents say that witchcraft in the film has two sides and that the issue is not witchcraft, but witchcraft is the use of that makes good or bad, forget that witchcraft, is intrinsically a bad concept, anti evangelical, even if it intends to use it for good, as we know, the good end does not justify the use of a half bad.

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

It's funny that for today's world have the concept of truth and falsehood is always seen as a sign of "pre" concept or exaggeration. In a world where "truth" goes back and forth according to convenience, have firmly of the opinion is to be "fanatic."

In fact, as Christians, we must have clear and defined concepts, grounded in revelation, in Scripture and the Magisterium of the Church. We can easily become victims of fashion "Potter's" - has been forgotten, but leaving the trail open for "Sunsets and similar" ..

Perhaps, for whom we read, the subject vampirism seems marginal, but, do an experiment and put into Google the word "vampire" and you will see three million eight hundred thousand search results with that word. If you add "real vampires" with "vampire pictures" will have more than six million hits ... The term "vampire" has but results in 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, need they have Jesus Christ as the answer to their anxieties and sense of eternity.

Are caught by the surrounding culture, which reaches into the void of the lack of Christian education, 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/tag/crepusculo

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