Nearly neglected this bit over the weekend:
Top 10 List Why Jesus and Vampires are Alike
1. Loosely based on historical figures
2. The tale gets passed on from generation to generation, each time adding a twist to the original tale until it becomes larger than life.
3. Very popular in pop-culture. Every year or so, there’s bound to be another re-hashed movie or best-seller about him. Ranges from the teeny-bopper, “cool” versions popular with younger crowd to the bloodier, more R-rated versions. 4. Anne Rice wrote a book about him.
5. Came back from the grave as an immortal undead with super-powers 6. Can’t enter uninvited into your house (or heart)
7. Allergic to crosses, prefers not to be impaled with or into woody stuff but in the official storyline gets staked anyway.
8. Likes to be called “prince”, though one prefers the moniker of “prince of peace”, the other likes the title “prince of darkness”.
9. Keeps flying critters as pets which usually come out on special occasions or when specifically summoned. One like doves, the other prefers bats.
10. Has his own rabid fan-base. Don’t mess with his fans, they can appear to be all nice and normal, but watch out when they bare their fangs. They will defend him to the death.
How about “Top 10 List Why Vampire Lore is like Christianity”? Check out Filipino Freethinkers to find out.
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Mark – be serious or there is no point in wasting time
responding to nonsense.
Everyone in Heaven and Hell will bow the knee to Jesus.
Better to do it from Heaven.
Is Hell Real ? – Google up :-
23 minutes in Hell
Dr Rawlings the heart surgeon.
and Lots of others.
This is why Jesus went through such pain – to SAVE us from
Hell.
Is this fear propaganda by Jesus?
You’ll think it’s cool if you were gothic.
Reminds me of high school again when I locked the door, turned up the rock music, read the Bible and lit a candle in front of the mirror. I felt gothic about it.
But not fanatic.
I’ll add two to your list.
11) Drinking their blood is a sacrificial act; and
12) Both have vast merchandising empires
Charles, you remind me of why I don’t want to be Pro-Life, which to me is an inverted belief in death.
Because in your mythology, heaven cannot exist without hell, life without death.
You remind me of a conversation I had with an old lady, a devout Catholic. I told her Pope John Paul II had explained in Mexico that hell is not a geographically located place but exists more in thought. And guess what she told me, “So where are we going?”
Did you get the point of the conversation? I told her hell does not exist the way she thinks it does, but is she happy? No! She is all of a sudden lost as to where she will go.
Very relevant and well researched lecture from truth-seeker, Phil Valentine:
Ironically, the title of this post is synonymous with Valentine’s subject matter, e.g. “Intelligence-sucking Christians”
hey @Mark T. Market, (yeegads, just saying that aloud brings back nightmarish flashbacks of my treasury days, hehe)
blog-hopped from the FF, happy you enjoyed that bit of heretical humor 🙂 Gladdens a writer’s heart to be appreciated.
Hey wes! Thanks for stopping by. Nice one! And as you can see, others are appreciating it in their own way…
lol, how aropos that your first commenter happens to be #10 on the list… way to prove the point, *smirk*
how does that cliche go? truth is sometimes stranger than fiction?