Twilight

Not the time of day...or night? but that book/series that girls everywhere are absoluting going stark-raving mad over...

I had heard about and I knew it was as popular as LOTR, POTC, Harry Potter, etc. I didn't really care. Then I saw the book one day, and picked it up, started reading it. I'm not a book critic, and as long as a book isn't really slooow and has a good story line, I usually enjoy it. So, Twilight was an interesting story. I liked it. I wanted to finish reading the series. But then...

I got the next edition of Brio in the mail. (For those of you who don't know: Brio is a Christian magazine published by Focus on the Family for teen girls - I recommend it!) They included an article on Twilight.

A few excerpts from the article:
"Despite the series’ surface appeal as a romance, it communicates many messages that are contrary to the Christian faith, and that’s not something you should be filling your mind with."
"what’s dangerous about Stephenie’s series is that the reader, too, enters into Bella’s obsession with Edward"
"The “Twilight” series also teaches unbiblical attitudes toward authority. Bella doesn’t respect her parents. She loves them, but they come across as clueless and out of touch with what’s going on in her life."

The article also contrast good and evil in Twilight with good and evil in the Bible. It finishes off with this paragraph: "We’re to love God with every fiber of our beings, and that includes loving Him with our minds (Matthew 22:36-38). We need to think about what fills our minds. Does it reflect biblical truth? The “Twilight” series does not. Just because the culture loves these books does not mean you should. As Scripture tells us, “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will” (Romans 12:2)."

This article made me really wonder if I should be reading the series, but I was already slightly addicted and tried to rationalize my indecision on whether or not to finish the series or watch the movie by thinking that I was just reading it for a story, not to influence my beliefs or behaviour or anything like that. Then one of my best friends reminded me that Eph 4:27 says "Do not give the devil a foothold [in your life]". That and other stuff she said to me convicted me of how wrong and dangerous Twilight is.

Article: http://www.briomag.com/briomagazine/entertainment/a0007866.html