'True Blood': God Is a Vampire
If the audacious amount of gory violence and bloody sex in “True Blood” doesn’t do it for you, what about malevolent vampire “Christians?”
Apparently “True Blood” vampires have a sacred text, and HBO writers admitted it’s a slanderous take on the Bible and separation of church and state. A faction of vampires called the “Sanguinistas” functioned as a demeaning allegory for traditional Christians, as they literally interpret the vampire “bible” and believe humans only exist as blood-bags.
Entertainment Weekly reported, “There are, however, fundamentalist vampires who believe in a literal translation of the vampire bible – the Original Testament that predates the Old or New – which says that before God created Adam and Eve, he created Lilith. Like God, Lilith was a vampire, and Adam and Eve, like all humans, were created with the sole purpose of being food.”
The episode also included a vicious take on the Christian sacrament of communion when Roman, Guardian of the vampire Authority, (played by “Law and Order’s” Christopher Meloni) had the vampire chancellors drink his blood from a chalice, chanting Lilith was “The first, the last, and the eternal.” The demonic chant could be seen as a gross mockery of the Christian holy trinity.
“True Blood” producer Alan Ball told The Wrap that Rick Santorum inspired Meloni’s “deranged theocrat” character.
“What’s terrifying is how many people agree with him [Rick Santorum],” Ball said, “Chris Meloni comes in, he is the guardian of the blood. Supposedly they have a vial of blood of the first vampire – like a Catholic icon. The governing body of vampires is like the Catholic church plus the Supreme Court for vampires.”
HBO delights in disparaging conservative political figures in their original series. “Game of Thrones” producers came under fire for beheading former president George W. Bush in the show’s first season finale, and Alan Ball has happily confirmed he believes conservatives and vampires are the same.
Other attacks on religion and Christianity were scattered throughout the episode, as seen when minister-turned-gay vampire Steve Newlin attempted to buy sex-obsessed Jason Stackhouse from his female vampire consort Jessica.
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You mean they didn't mean the women's music festival?
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 3:31pm.
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I freakin' hate this show and
Submitted by NC Cop on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 3:33pm.
I freakin' hate this show and I don't like using the word hate very often. Making things worse is that my wife absolutely LOVES this show......
Luckily, I now have a "man cave" to retreat to. Thank you, God.
Sorry you're having to put up with it, NC
Submitted by Blonde on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 4:03pm.
Many people enjoy the vampire genre. I find it to be totally disgusting and not worth a second of my time.
But obviously it sells. I can't really get offended, because I choose not to pay any attention to it (although I do feel for you, fella). Hope you have a nice sports package in your cave!
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Nyet on vampires and zombies
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 4:25pm.
I've never been tempted to watch these shows, though my wife is a fan of a couple of them. They seem to be like a modern "Dark Shadows" but with graphic violence, explicit sex and sexual themes, mindless dialogue, and storylines that reach for the inane.
My wife will urge me to watch. She'll say something like, "You might like this one because it's about a handful of humans evading the zombies in some sort of post-zombie apocolypse. This one woman is trying to find her daughter, and the guy is helping her." Then an episode later, "Oh crap, why did they do that?! The woman found her daughter, but she's dead and her brain was eaten by zombies! Why couldn't they let them survive? I'm not going to watch this anymore." To which I reply, "Do you see why I don't even get started? Mind if I turn on the ballgame?"
As in everything from novels to comic books to music, the trend in these shows is to get darker -- to be more outrageous than the competition.
They can have 'em.
who watches this crap?
Submitted by Mark81150 on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 3:46pm.
I hate the whole vampire is cool genre of fantasy fiction that's popular now.. even worse than when plain old fashioned atheists and agnostics write it as pure entertainment fiction. To now, have left wing activists openly slander Christians and conservatives, even when they aren't always the same, is repulsive in the extreme.
That freak Ball is an idiot. Worse, a vicious nasty vindictive idiot out to spread the hate through his chosen medium of bubble gum pop teen fiction.
What ever happen to the notion of vampires as purely evil, and the Church as God's protectors of the faithful?
Oh.. right, some people think a bloodless cold skinned living corpse is sexy.. what kind thinking could cause that?.. My wife reads the Twilight series, my daughter, I adore them both, but can't peel them away from it. I cannot see the attraction, but being 16 years older than my wife, I still saw films where vampires were pure filth, not objects of affection.
anyway.. I hope that Ball ends up broke over this, he surely deserves it, to take such pleasure in twisting Christian faith to suit his left wing bigotry. I'm not even that good a Christian, haven't currently got a church, though my wife and I are checking into one. I just find the entire genre of evil is good-and good is really evil as worse than perverted, worse than just insulting, it's pandering to the twisted ego's of the pagan loving new left, feeding their prejudices against the people of faith.
what a scumbag.
It's a show
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 3:45pm.
You know something, I agree, the show is depraved, I watched a bit of it during commercial breaks of Falling Skies last night, and honestly, I like the female vamp Jessica(IE She doesn't take any crap from anyone and I like that in a person) if I had to say I liked any character from the show. But I wouldn't watch it on a regular basis. I wouldn't watch it on an irregular basis, I just happened to flip the channel to see what else was happening, I can't stand waiting during commercials. True Blood just happened to be on there.
But here's the thing to remember, a show's going to live and die based on the viewership, even if it was paid cable, and hell, I don't bother with the channel because it can be blocked out, I never bother with it anyway because if there's a movie I want to watch, I rent it or watch it on netflix or Crackle.
That's the nice thing about it, we're not forced to watch these things, I'm sure once people start hearing about it, the ratings will drop and they'll be forced to shut down the series or change their writing.
People are going to make fun of things or depraving things in the worst possible way only because they know they'll get a reaction out of people, so treat them like annoying kids, just ignore them. Not worth wasting time getting upset over. What they will find out in the long run is that Karma is a real b!tch sometimes and will surprise you in ways you never expected.
-Jon
well..
Submitted by Mark81150 on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 3:53pm.
From my post, as angry as this makes me.. I do agree with this much.. we should just ignore it. Protests and boycotts just feed their ego's that they finally got to us. and really, lousey writting and Christian bashing scripts aren't going to get them far.. if we fail to show up all angry and protesting.
They'll find no ratings by being nasty 12 year olds.
Pardon me, but OINK!
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 4:20pm.
Initially I had seen some of the series(might have started in end of first season going into second or something) just because I was intrigued by the telepathic waitress/vampire thing going on for a bit, though seeing Sookie getting nookie with the vamp was a bit weird(Anna Paquin's very attractive(brief OINK Alert!), but not enough to keep me into the show), a few other weird things and my reaction was "ok, I've had enough, not interested in watching the show" when they started pushing more and more of the gay stuff in it and the characters were just two-dimensional caricatures of what they started off as.
It's like South Park, I've pretty much gotten bored with it, I'm surprised they've survived this long, but they aren't as funny as they used to be in the beginning.....good Lord, since 1997??
-Jon
Vampires
Submitted by rusino on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 4:00pm.
Since Twilight I must remind my 13 year old Granddaughter, vampires are the evil undead, they kill humans and drink their blood.
THEY ARE ALSO MYTHICAL CREATURES.
Maybe?
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 4:25pm.
One has to wonder after they discovered some buried bodies they believe to have been vampires because they had iron rods driven through their chests in Bulgaria.
Vamps in Bulgaria
This made many news venues, including Fox News. You be the judge. Mwahahahahah!
-Jon
Yeah, and the good people in Salem, Ma. burned people.
Submitted by UpNorth on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 7:38pm.
And, if you believe what Hollyweird writes, Abraham Lincoln was a Vampire Killer.
Of Course they do...
Submitted by @fngconservative on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 4:17pm.
OK this is a show about blood sucking undead vampires, of course if they have a bible it will make fun of Christians.. This is what they do, this is what HBO/Showtime and most movie studios and production houses do.
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Weak
Submitted by Free Stinker on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 10:53pm.
And this is what Newsbusters does. Exposes and Documents Liberal bias.
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Yeah I agree Lauren
Submitted by shawn. on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 4:23pm.
I am a person that actually enjoy shows that push the limits, but shows making fun of religion is extremely tacky. LIve you own life, but don't preach to others what they can and can't do.
So
Submitted by JustAl on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 5:05pm.
This is what happens when mythologies collide. At least everyone realizes the TV series is make believe. And no, one does not have to believe in the boogy man to be a conservative.
We have REAL problems in this country today. Focus on reality instead of getting side tracked on trivia.
Sorry!
Submitted by Unsane on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 9:47pm.
Sorry, my "libertarian" poster, the critic has a right to free speech too. And he/she can write about whatever he/she will damn well please.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
As Do
Submitted by JustAl on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 8:09am.
We all.
Ah.......
Submitted by Unsane on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 8:50pm.
So you concede that there the critic has a right to free speech? That would be a switch. Most of the NB libertarians don't think that way.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Love me some True
Submitted by ckc1227 on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 5:46pm.
Love me some True Blood......the series though, not the drink.
La Magra lives!
Submitted by CobraMan on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 6:13pm.
La Magra, the Blood God of the Blade series, Lives! On HBO. All they need now is a 50 foot monument buried underground and 12 unwilling supplicants in which to resurrect him. That is what is written in the Sacred Text of the Vampire Bible, is it not?
God as a vampire, sacred vampire bible, humans as a food source, for f--k's sake (to quote Frost). Can you say "plagiarism?"
Hay, HBO, why can't you guys try something new and original? Is that too hard?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
How about..
Submitted by Mark81150 on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 2:53am.
Doing a show about vampires as they have always been portrayed, undead ghouls that smell, are cold dead flesh, and are no longer the living human who was in that body, but a twisted version of their old self, perverted by evil to desire human blood and relishes killing the innocent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu
The traditional vampire Hollywood killed by putting Bell Lagosi in the vampire role, now how in the Hell women of that age thought that he was "hot" still confuses me. They continued that by constantly adapting the vampire myth by making them resemble humans more and more. Casting ever younger male actors to play the part.
That shows they saw money it doing that.
I'm just old fashioned and see monsters as they were when I was a child, black and white late night repulsive beasts that a hero needed to send back to Hell. I still favor a righteous hero, one who believes in God, and does his best to do the right thing,..
why is that so out of favor these days?
Its Called FICTION
Submitted by Utherpend on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 12:44pm.
They actually stole this concept from a game that White Wolf created more than 20 years ago. The World of Darkness was a popular game where the players portrayed Vampires who were part of clans that each had a long and storied history going back the first city of Man, Enoch. It created a mythos and history that wrote vampires into the founding of humans and their history of not only the religion but the structure of the modern world. A lot of the movies from Blade to the current series you see now "borrowed" most of their concepts from this game. But it was simply a game and over time it lost a lot of popularity, and while still in print it is not as well known as it once was.
Once upon a time...
Submitted by Unsane on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 8:52pm.
Yes, I was once a gamer, and enjoyed the game immensely. I thought White Wolf killed it some years ago? (Though earlier editions could still be in print of course.)
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Vampires deserve some
Submitted by ant on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 11:15pm.
Vampires deserve some respect..they've been around as long as us, if not longer. Elizabeth Warren told me so, she's 1/32 vampire. oops...I mean 1/16...Bloomberg told me 32 was too much for us to handle.