Religious nonsense

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Barry A. A. Dillinger
Screenwriter/Novelist

While it may be true that the Church often times used calamities and dark fears of the unknown to gather the flock, your assessment is so far removed from fact that it borders on anti-religious zealotry. The Church did not create vampire myth, nor did it really even give it that much notice until the people refused to allow these beliefs to flourish. Vampire lore began as part of the misunderstanding of how diseases and death really occurred. When a plague or some sort of contagion gripped a town, city or region of land, people logically began to look for a human culprit rather than be able to understand the science behind how diseases moved from person-to-person. The people who were typically in charge of towns...mayors and elders and such...would suggest that the first person to die from such a disease was now the purveyor of death. The patient zero was pinpointed as the corpse that animated and departed the grave and then went around visiting house-to-house (usually friends and loved ones left behind) and kill them one by one. There's so much more to the history of vampires than merely this, but your assessment is really a ridiculous anti-religious rant. If you want the real story, read a great book called "Death, Burial, and Vampires" by Paul Barber. It will open your eyes.

Do your research before coming up with such ridiculous statements. The Church didn't start vampire legends, they predated Christ even. Maybe you're confusing Transylvania's "Vlad the Impaler".......

Uh, this movie was filled with religious iconography, religious allusions, Catholic church and priests and you think there was "virtually ZERO emphasis on religion"? Either you come from a religious background where all this is the norm or you are really stupid. Also, the cartoon background story was practically a metaphor for the crusades and colonialism. Crusades basically demonized Muslims and colonialism dehumanized non-white, non-Christian people to savages and barbarians, kind of like the vampires shown. One of the three main reasons for colonialism was spreading Christianity. Basically, these evangelists went to non-Christian countries, grabbed the poor and impoverished people and either paid them or lied to them in order to convert them to Christianity and be loyal to the Western cause. Needless to say, this caused great social disarray in these societies. Countries that were lucky to keep the Christians a minority survived (like India, Japan, China, etc).But the not so lucky ones, especially in Africa, still suffers the chaotic waves of colonialism and Christianity that destroyed the very fabric of their cultures.
There's a difference between personal spiritual beliefs and theocracy. Whatever you want to believe in you personal life, whether it's Christian or Wiccan, it's your business and your right. But institutionalize these beliefs, like the Catholic church has, and you are trampling on others' right to believe in whatever they want to believe in. After 9/11, religious extremism has gotten more aggressive. Missionaries still go to third world countries, and people actually think that's a good thing, also there are fanatics openly admitting their beliefs in American public. Remember that American politician who publicly claimed that Allah was a "false god"? Too dumb to realize that Christians, Jews and Muslims all believe in the one Abrahamic God. Well, I'm going off topic. My point is, Hollywood should do more to respect diversity of religious beliefs and get rid of age old stereotypes and bigotry.