If I saw Stephanie Meyer, I'd probably have to be constrained to prevent an extremely confrontational conversation with that woman. I am purposefully not saying a lot by way of explanation of WHY i have these feelings because let's be honest:
1.) i am a teacher; I feel rather tuckered out today.
2.) Regardless of your personal feelings on the matter, YOU ALL KNOW WHY I WOULD FEEL THIS WAY ABOUT TWILIGHT. People that like this literary cornmeal mush in the beautiful world of filet mignon and creme brulee still know why it is loathed so desperately by English snobs alike.
3.) Writing excessive vehement words is the worst. No one likes to read them anyway. Ergo, on with the point. Today I read the Christian-based MovieGuide Review on "Breaking Dawn: Part 1". I was so excited with the whole gig ("Yes! Someone is actually writing the TRUTH about this crap movie/story!") until I got to these words:
Finally, there’s a Mormon subtext to THE TWILIGHT SAGA that Christians, parents, and moviegoers should be made aware. As such, it presents an allegorical story consistent with Mormon theology. Mormonism is heretical because it violates basic biblical truths taught by Jesus Christ and firmly accepted by His first disciples in the First and Second Centuries.
For instance, Bella, the story’s female heroine, yearns to become a supernatural creature like Edward, whom she views as a kind of God. Like his vampire family, the Cullens, Edward has risen above his baser nature (he refuses to drink human blood anymore), so he and the Cullens are now able to pursue higher and higher intellectual and humanitarian ideals (the patriarch of Edward’s family, Carlisle, is a doctor who goes around healing people). This scenario is a metaphor for Mormon belief, which says that people can become gods by rising above their sinful nature and pursuing good works.
Also, in BREAKING DAWN, much is made of the fact that Edward and Bella are made for one another. Also according to the story’s mythology, male werewolves imprint on their future mates, which establishes an unbreakable bond between them. Both these things fit in well with false Mormon theology, where women enter the celestial kingdom only through their husbands, who become the god of their own individual planet. In fact, according to heretical Mormon teaching, this is exactly what Jesus Christ is, the god of this planet, but not the God of the Whole Universe and whatever may lie beyond it.
Mormon theology is completely different from New Testament Christianity, which teaches that salvation and deliverance from sin is a free gift from the one and only True God, through belief in the vicarious atonement, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Thus, good works are not a means of salvation or redemption. Instead, they are only an expression of our salvation in Christ. And, faith, which is a gift from God, is the means by which human beings appropriate that salvation and start to have communion or fellowship with God through Jesus Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit.
**At this point I was like, "WHAAA? Oh brooother, this is going to be good.."
For instance, Bella, the story’s female heroine, yearns to become a supernatural creature like Edward, whom she views as a kind of God. Like his vampire family, the Cullens, Edward has risen above his baser nature (he refuses to drink human blood anymore), so he and the Cullens are now able to pursue higher and higher intellectual and humanitarian ideals (the patriarch of Edward’s family, Carlisle, is a doctor who goes around healing people). This scenario is a metaphor for Mormon belief, which says that people can become gods by rising above their sinful nature and pursuing good works.
**Thank you for using "heretical" 50 billion times...
Mormon theology is completely different from New Testament Christianity, which teaches that salvation and deliverance from sin is a free gift from the one and only True God, through belief in the vicarious atonement, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Thus, good works are not a means of salvation or redemption. Instead, they are only an expression of our salvation in Christ. And, faith, which is a gift from God, is the means by which human beings appropriate that salvation and start to have communion or fellowship with God through Jesus Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit.
...My rebuttal cometh forth...
in the meantime, read THIS link for funnnyyy commentary on Twilight: http://www.verbal-vomit.com/
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