"In death we find eternal life"

Again today I will say things that offend peoples faiths including my families, so just don't take the things I say seriously, just listen to it and think about it.

The reason I title this weeks blog with that particular quote is because death has to do with alot of the the similarities with Jesus and Vampires. When Jesus was killed the store goes on that he was buried and three days later he rose from the dead. Having eternal life.
In the Vampire legend, when a human is bitten by a vampire the human will eventually die and be buried, once again they will rise from the dead having eternal life.

Then I think back to how we even got to the point of death itself. Well according to what I was taught and have learn is that Jesus was nailed to a cross in the bright sun, he was beaten and stabbed with the "spear of destiny". As he bleed is family member washed his feet with holy water.
What do these things have to do with vampires? To start off, the cross is a religious symbol that burns the skin of any vampire that touches it. Jesus was killed on a cross in the blistering heat of the sun. Along with that, sunlight burns vampires also. "The spear of destiny" was thrusted into Jesuses chest eventually leading to Jesuses death. A spear is very similar to a stake in which vampires can be kill with when they are stabbed in the chest. Finally the water that was used to clean Jesus was holy and even though it had no part in killing Jesus, it has a part in burning vampires when they come in contact with it.

Similarities Between the two

So last semester in my twice told tale class I was told to relate certain stories to one another. The novel that me and my partner read was "Twilight", obviously very well known and the movie came in handy to when trying to review it. I sat down and just started writing, I wrote for four hours and came out with two stories to compare "Twilight", Romeo and Juliet and The Bible. That's where we come to the conversation at hand. What do Vampires and Jesus have in common? On a side note I was raised in a very Roman Catholic home so all of what I had found and compared started world war 3 at home.
First Jesus is quoted in saying at the last supper “Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day”

His disciples figuritivly drank Jesus' blood the night before he was killed and three days later he rose from the dead.

I want something to be clear, I'm not saying that Jesus was a Vampire per say, rather I am stating that maybe the idea of Vampirism came from the most unlikely of places, Jesus Christ