Why are vampires Catholic?

[Anonymous]

What?!? Do you know any history??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought Dracula was a jew.

There are a lot of antisemitic stereotypes built into old vampire lore: https://forward.com/culture/503182/dracula-bram-stoker-antisemitic-jewish-125th-anniversary-transylvania-vampire/

[Anonymous]

I'm now rereading Interview with the Vampire due to this thread.

I just learned the author wrote it while grieving the loss of her little girl to cancer. The little girl vampire is based on her daughter, and it explains a lot of the themes and ideas of the novel. Very weird, and very unlike any other book I've read. I recommend (though from what I've read online, her spinoffs of this first novel aren't nearly as good).

If anyone is looking for a unique Halloween read, this could be it.

[Anonymous]

I knew a Buddhist vegan vampire once. He didn't last long though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most movies or TV shows about Vampires seem to involve Priests, Crosses and Catholic Church.

Why is that?

I think they don't have great death rituals and procedures. They even bury their dead next to or in the churches. So they do not have sacred and holy spaces.

There are lot of unholy things left around them that does not transition to another dimension or do not get destroyed. And then, humans have to deal with these dead things. The Catholic God does not do anything to save the humans or fight the unholy demonic undead.

Also, in Halloween they encourage devilish things. Very weird religion.

So..the vampire are Catholics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I knew a Buddhist vegan vampire once. He didn't last long though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I knew a Buddhist vegan vampire once. He didn't last long though.

Poor guy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most movies or TV shows about Vampires seem to involve Priests, Crosses and Catholic Church.

Why is that?

I think they don't have great death rituals and procedures. They even bury their dead next to or in the churches. So they do not have sacred and holy spaces.

There are lot of unholy things left around them that does not transition to another dimension or do not get destroyed. And then, humans have to deal with these dead things. The Catholic God does not do anything to save the humans or fight the unholy demonic undead.

Also, in Halloween they encourage devilish things. Very weird religion.

So..the vampire are Catholics.

Protestants do these things, also, but they were copying the Protestants.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most movies or TV shows about Vampires seem to involve Priests, Crosses and Catholic Church.

Why is that?

I think they don't have great death rituals and procedures. They even bury their dead next to or in the churches. So they do not have sacred and holy spaces.

There are lot of unholy things left around them that does not transition to another dimension or do not get destroyed. And then, humans have to deal with these dead things. The Catholic God does not do anything to save the humans or fight the unholy demonic undead.

Also, in Halloween they encourage devilish things. Very weird religion.

So..the vampire are Catholics.

Protestants do these things, also, but they were copying the Catholics.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most movies or TV shows about Vampires seem to involve Priests, Crosses and Catholic Church.

Why is that?

I think they don't have great death rituals and procedures. They even bury their dead next to or in the churches. So they do not have sacred and holy spaces.

There are lot of unholy things left around them that does not transition to another dimension or do not get destroyed. And then, humans have to deal with these dead things. The Catholic God does not do anything to save the humans or fight the unholy demonic undead.

Also, in Halloween they encourage devilish things. Very weird religion.

So..the vampire are Catholics.

Protestants do these things, also, but they were copying the Catholics.

Catholics copied the Hebrews, the OG one-god religion.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most movies or TV shows about Vampires seem to involve Priests, Crosses and Catholic Church.

Why is that?

I think they don't have great death rituals and procedures. They even bury their dead next to or in the churches. So they do not have sacred and holy spaces.

There are lot of unholy things left around them that does not transition to another dimension or do not get destroyed. And then, humans have to deal with these dead things. The Catholic God does not do anything to save the humans or fight the unholy demonic undead.

Also, in Halloween they encourage devilish things. Very weird religion.

So..the vampire are Catholics.

Do Jews have vampires?

Protestants do these things, also, but they were copying the Catholics.

Catholics copied the Hebrews, the OG one-god religion.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most movies or TV shows about Vampires seem to involve Priests, Crosses and Catholic Church.

Why is that?

I think they don't have great death rituals and procedures. They even bury their dead next to or in the churches. So they do not have sacred and holy spaces.

There are lot of unholy things left around them that does not transition to another dimension or do not get destroyed. And then, humans have to deal with these dead things. The Catholic God does not do anything to save the humans or fight the unholy demonic undead.

Also, in Halloween they encourage devilish things. Very weird religion.

So..the vampire are Catholics.

Do Jews have vampires?

Protestants do these things, also, but they were copying the Catholics.

Catholics copied the Hebrews, the OG one-god religion.

Do the Jews have Vampires?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most movies or TV shows about Vampires seem to involve Priests, Crosses and Catholic Church.

Why is that?

I think they don't have great death rituals and procedures. They even bury their dead next to or in the churches. So they do not have sacred and holy spaces.

There are lot of unholy things left around them that does not transition to another dimension or do not get destroyed. And then, humans have to deal with these dead things. The Catholic God does not do anything to save the humans or fight the unholy demonic undead.

Also, in Halloween they encourage devilish things. Very weird religion.

So..the vampire are Catholics.

Do Jews have vampires?

Protestants do these things, also, but they were copying the Catholics.

Catholics copied the Hebrews, the OG one-god religion.

Do the Jews have Vampires?

Golems

[Anonymous]

Bram Stoker's Dracula draws on Victorian-era tropes about eastern Europe being a backwards, foreign, "exotic" place. Stoker combined this with the traditional English anti-Catholicism, using Catholic imagery as a facade for what is basically mysticism (white magic vs. black magic). This way, the white magic remains superficially familiar to the audience, and therefore easier to identify with.

Later artists continued in this vein because, frankly, Catholicism has a richer and more ancient aesthetic tradition to draw upon, as opposed to Protestantism, which has often emphasized staid, plain, unadorned aesthetics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Spike and Angel weren’t Catholic.

He was from Ireland in the 1700’s, so there is a good chance Angel (Liam) was at one point.