New Moon has "deviant message": Vatican [CNAU]

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Never read the book or watched the movie, but many have said it’s lame, so it might be.

And as usual, the Vatican finds a new way to attract the younger masses to the Church, denounce the movie and make a scene of it.

They could have just shut up about it, but no.
 
Ok in the book there werewolves run around without shirts, shoes etc because every time they transform from humans to wolves they have to remove their clothes (or they’ll be destroyed). If their traveling in wolf form they need clothes to change back into later lest they run around naked. Not easy for a wolf to carry a whole wardrobe about. They carry their shorts in their mouth. Thats where all the shirtless, jean cut off stuff comes from.

And the Vampires were not at the Vatican. The head Vampires are in Italy yes, hanging out with the pope in Rome -no.
 
LiB said:
I will admit I have not read the books, but I do not want to. Correct me if I am wrong, but as far as I can tell vampires have been evil. They have been associated with the devil, the thing that hurt them were Crucifixes and Holy water and light-signs of good. Twilight distorts the image of good and evil by having “good” vampires.

Also as far as their chasteness is concerned, how is a bunch of werewolves going around without shirts not suggestive in some way? I don’t want to get to uptight about it, but middle school girls are going to see this. Also doesn’t Edward watch Bella sleep? Sure its because he cares but would you want some boy watching your twelve year old daughter sleep?

I cant really say much more, and please correct me if I have been fed false information, but from what I see, it is enough to know this book is not very good.
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Ok I’ll correct you. Vampires do not exist. They are not actual beings, they are made up fiction. So they can be anything an author chooses to make them be. In the Wizard of Oz there are good witches and bad witches -nobody says well that’s wrong there can not be good witches because historically in fiction all witches are bad. It’s fiction and an author can choose to make a character anyway he or she chooses to make them. Holy water and crucifixes hurting vampires were made up ideas by individual authors. Not all vampire stories follow those lines.

People argue about this movie and book like vampires are real things like demons. There is no such thing as a vampire -as if I should have to point that out.
 
rayne89 said:
Ok I’ll correct you. Vampires do not exist. They are not actual beings, they are made up fiction.
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They are myths that developed over centuries. That is not the same thing as fiction, but an author can design any fictional world he chooses using mythical types.
 
RSD said:
I think to most Americans all of Italy is in the Vatican.
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Lol I’m not American, I’m just working on what my sister said (she reads the books and loves the whole twilight thing) and she said they lived in the Vatican 🙂
 
cathgal said:
They could make werewolves not wearing denim cutoffs but it would be censured, ya think?
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Of course! But the real question is–where do the cut-offs go when the shape shifting occurs? :confused: It seems as if they just poof!–disappear, and the next time you see the werewolf in human form, he’s wearing the same pair.

Personally, I don’t see anything TOO terribly objectionable about these books/movies, except bad writing, poor plot, etc.
 
The Catholic World Report magazine has a quite extensive and balanced review of the movie and the books and the phenomenon in its latest issue.

A romance / werewolf move–it appeals to young girls and their moms: see twilightmoms.com

A Catholic mom still dislikes the movie, giving her objections in her own blog:
spesunica.wordpress.com/
 
I like the soundtrack - My 14yo daughter booms it out constantly from her bedroom - I’m officially not allowed to like it as that would be “uncool” LOL

Pat
 
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