Twilight...

OMG EDWARD CULLEN IS SOOOO FREAKING AWESOME!!! BOOO TEAM JACOB STUPID SNARLING BRUTE YOU SMELL FUNNY!!!

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Actually, I’m not a twilight fan. I haven’t chosen sides, and I won’t. I have read the books though.

Honestly, must we have all this hype about a sparkling vampire and a werewolf with a six pack?

Is that seriously how we want our generation to be marked?

The books weren’t written very well, but they’re basically porn for girls. No one’s going to complain because it doesn’t break any of society’s current morals.

This is written to any twilight fans, but especially the Christian ones. Because they make my heart hurt the most of all twi-lovers (Though, it’s a near tie with the twi-moms. They scare me.)

Let’s take a quick glance through Twilight.

How it came to be;

“I woke up (on that June 2nd) from a very vivid dream. In my dream, two people were having an intense conversation in a meadow in the woods. One of these people was just your average girl. The other person was fantastically beautiful, sparkly, and a vampire. They were discussing the difficulties inherent in the facts that A) they were falling in love with each other while B) the vampire was particularly attracted to the scent of her blood, and was having a difficult time restraining himself from killing her immediately.”

Skip a bunch of paragraphs (Note, this is taken from S. Meyer’s site, stepheniemeyer.com/twilight. If you go to the site, note how the publishing and all that gets done by women.) Stephanie talks about how even though she’s a very busy mother of young boys, she writes a bit every day etc etc… and then…

“All this time, Bella and Edward were, quite literally, voices in my head. They simply wouldn't shut up. I'd stay up as late as I could stand trying to get all the stuff in my mind typed out, and then crawl, exhausted, into bed (my baby still wasn't sleeping through the night, yet) only to have another conversation start in my head. I hated to lose anything by forgetting, so I'd get up and head back down to the computer. Eventually, I got a pen and notebook for beside my bed to jot notes down so I could get some freakin' sleep. It was always an exciting challenge in the morning to try to decipher the stuff I'd scrawled across the page in the dark.”

Does this not sound wrong to you? When vivid dreams that stick to you happen in the Jesus world, we tend to call it prophetic. When it happens in the secular world and then results in something like Twilight, I’d have to classify that as demonic.

Now that that’s been said, you’re probably reading what I just wrote and quoted and thinking I’m just another one of the crazy conspiracy theory people. But would it bother you that much to keep reading? No? Ok awesome.

Basic story of Twilight. Edward and Bella experience love at first sight. Edward faithfully loves Bella and does whatever is best for her. He would die for her. And he would never hurt her. He’s a vampire, thus is perfect and never dies, and once she becomes a vampire too, their love is forever.

The basic story of the Bible. Jesus loved mankind from creation. And he has always faithfully loved mankind. Jesus would (and did) die for mankind. He’ll never leave you, all he wants is true abandoned love in return. And he is perfect and eternal.

Do we maybe see some similarities here?

The truth is, the human soul was made for an eternity of love. What Twilight has provided is a cheap way for that; granted, it’s only obtained in exchange for one’s soul, but that’s not too terribly bad, right? And what use is a soul, anyways? The Cullen’s are fine, and they’re vegetarian!

“You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.” ~C.S. Lewis

I’ve seen too many girls who are waiting for their Edward or their Jasper (or their any Cullen guy), or even their Jacob, who is basically the tropical version of Edward.

Forget what I said about not choosing teams. I choose team Jesus. He doesn’t sparkle in the sun, he Shines with a light Greater than the sun. In fact, he Made the sun.

And he doesn’t have a creepy group of ancient paper-like indestructibles to judge him. He judges everyone.

And now I leave you with that. Please just give up on Twilight and pick up a bible somewhere… It may be long, but it’s way a better love story, complete with long battle-scenes and love songs. And it won’t leave you longing for something that not only doesn’t exist, but if it did would end at the end of the world.

Find reality. If you search for it, you’ll find it. (Unlike a Cullen…)

…. Go Team Jesus!!!!

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~Silver