NeoApostate

Drink of the blood, and you will have eternal life.

Nero's Boot

Obviously a euphamism for ghouling!*

--see? A Setite! NB

*OK, OK, I'll stop referencing White Wolf.... :angel:

southernhybrid

I've been trying to figure out this blood sacrifice thing for years and now thanks to this thread it all makes sense. It also explains why Jesus didn't have a sense of humor. Has anyone ever known a vampire with a sense of humor? More evidence that Jesus was a vampire. Praise be to you heathens for enlightening me and for having a delicious sense of humor.

jjramsey

The vampires on Buffy often had a sense of humor.

Oh, and I might as well be the first one to say it, since I'm sure it will be said anyway: This thread sucks.

AthenaAwakened

Well since we are told to both take the wine as his blood and the bread as his flesh, does that make him both a vampire AND a ghoul? or does one out weigh the other (i.e. A vamp with ghoulish tendencies)?

Clarification please

::: she asks while looking all scientific and stuff in a lab coat and thigh boots:::

WishboneDawn

Read the gospel of Judas, all he does there is laugh. Of course it could be an evil, 'BWAHAHAHAHA!' kind of laugh...

IRON MAN

Rolled the tomb stone away - super strength.

Put the guards out for the count - hypnotic mind powers.

Sometimes the crucifix is referred to as the torture "stake", (a little Freudian slip I think).

And not once in the whole gospel does it mention anyone seeing his reflection in a mirror.

Putney Swope

I was raised with the traditional KJV hell fire and damnation version of the Bible. Perhaps that's why I missed out on the humor of Jesus. I looked up humor in relation to the Bible once and I only got two verses. That's really pitiful. The Bible is not a very funny book and I have always thought that laughter was the best medicine for the hardships of life. Maybe that's why it lost its appeal when I became a young adult.

Imagining Jesus as a vampire is pretty funny. I'm glad you're the type of Xian that can see the humor in that.

Oh, btw I just realized that I'm posting on my husband's computer and using his account. That's pretty funny too since he wouldn't be caught dead posting in GRD. Sohy here, not Putney Swope.

WishboneDawn

I find that parts of the OT, before Kings where there's a lot of stuff pulled from oral tradition have some humour.

But I'm mild. If you want christians for whom nothing is sacred when it comes to a good joke try Ship of Fool's top ten offensive jokes.

sodium

I think it's pretty clear that Bram Stoker intentionally made the vampire as partly a blasphemous parody of aspects of the Christian religion. Not to say that it was meant as an attack on Christianity. It's more like how witch's were imagined to have black sabbath's. It's the villianous creature that is parodying Christianity, not the author.

I don't know how much of this is original with Stoker, although obviously he didn't invent the idea of the vampire. Some other writer's make this connection even more explicit, as I believe it is in the movie "Bram Stoker's Dracula".