I've come across a lot of Christian articles online in my time that weren't worth reading, but this one as well as this article about the dangers of the Twilight Saga is just the opposite. The article is a thorough examination of the messages in the books and movies, spiritual and otherwise.
Of course, you know an article is worth reading if your head is fairly buzzing with new thoughts afterwords, so here are some of mine:
One reason these books and movies inspire an ungodly lust for power is churches aren't teaching about the power Christians have in Christ. Matthew 28 18 Most churches are silent on the issue, especially in youth groups where what they mostly do is play silly games and then have six year old Sunday school all over again.
Though Edward is a confusing Babylonian mix of evil and attractive characteristics, churches could do worse than to teach young men how to be good men of God, and I don't mean the way they do now, which consists alternately of "keep it in your pants" which just turns females from sex objects the world says you're supposed to touch to sex objects your pastor says you aren't supposed to touch, and a twisting of the Scriptures to say men are supposed to rule their girls with at least something like an iron fist and girls are supposed to submit to their husbands in every single thing. In the circle I used to hang out in, it had gotten to the point where the verse in 1 Corinthians 14 had been so twisted out of context that women would ask their husbands what certain passages the women couldn't understand meant, rather than looking them up, regardless of one's spiritual condition compared to the other.
Mormons are heretics, brothers and sisters. Don't let them in your house.
There are young men out there who, not having had success with girls, are going to use "Twilight" as a dating manual and, most likely without meaning to, become abusive boyfriends and husbands.
"Twilight", in sum, is about an uncoordinated girl with no self-confidence, an absentee father, a mushhead mother, and a question mark stepfather who ends up falling for, and becoming utterly co-dependent upon a demonic being because she doesn't feel she'll ever do any better.
"Bella and Her Children Flee to a Women's Shelter will not be seen at this time ..."
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