At her blog, Mrs. Giggles mentions a YA vampire novel that has two titles: My Love Lies Bleeding in the U.K. and Hearts At Stake in the U.S.
I love reading reader discussions about the differences of covers or titles of a novel so naturally, I Googled to find some about that YA novel. On the first page of results?
What, anti-Christian? Of course, I had to know.
Seriously though, I should admit at this point that while Scotland was plagued with quite a few religious conflicts, my home region was rarely involved with religious events. We didn’t celebrate Christmas (a common occurrence in Scotland as Christmas was outlawed for a couple of centuries). Catholics were a rarity at where I came from. Christians? They usually kept to themselves. To be honest, I think it’s a British trait not to announce to all which religion we support, let alone discuss religious issues with anyone but close friends or family.
Anyhow, I know almost zero about many western religions, particularly Christianity (I’m still confused about whether Catholicism was part of Christianity or not). I never read the Bible. Only knows enough to recognise a handful of popular biblical lines I learnt from films and friends.
So I’m quite curious to know why some were against supernatural novels like vampire novels, Harry Potter series, witch novels and such when the Bible itself – as I understand – features supernatural and similar events. Eh, I’d always promised myself not to discuss religion online because from what I can see, it tends to cause flame wars but in this case with books, I’m curious enough to know.
“I’m still confused about whether Catholicism was part of Christianity or not”
Catholicism was pretty much the only form of Christianity in Western Europe for centuries, until the Reformation (in the 16th century).
That’s what I was taught, but quite a few (mostly, Christians) corrected me on that over years, hence the confusion.
Whoo! Two minutes. Good response time, M. A tad too speedy ,but better than not responding for days.
“That’s what I was taught, but quite a few (mostly, Christians) corrected me on that over years, hence the confusion”
That’s because some Protestants like to claim the term “Christian” for themselves and state that Catholics aren’t really Christians. Some Catholics would no doubt respond to that by saying that Protestants are heretics and therefore not true Christians. I don’t know enough about the various Orthodox Churches to know if some Orthodox Christians would classify members of other denominations as heretics, but I rather suspect there must be at least a few who would. Schisms and allegations of heresy are part of the Christian tradition (though Christianity certainly doesn’t have a monopoly on these sorts of theological divides).
Hm. That pretty much enforces my belief it’s best to stay out of the whole thing.
Thanks for clarifying. Much appreciated.