Happy Good Friday...Why Not Celebrate With Some TWILIGHT?

We're from the south, and Southerners know how to do two things really well: fry food and go to church. Which is funny, because as two Baptist chicks, we have plenty of opportunities to see both in action--church and food kind of go together down here. We love learning about God and getting those tiny fried chicken legs all on the same day.

But imagine our surprise when Twilight found it's way into our church lives. Twilight, our beloved book series about vampires and werewolves, borderline stalker boyfriends, girls trying to seduce the dead...it doesn't seem exactly Biblical. On the surface, that is....

It all started when....

One day a couple of months ago Andee was in church reading a church magazine when something on the front cover struck her as ODD....it said "Do you have Twilight Fever?"...she almost fell off her pew (which would have been totally embarassing)! But she looked at the contents and flipped to the page. It was an AWESOME article! She actually typed it out in an email and sent it to all of her friends whom she had "turned".

Here's a quote from the article she read "Linger for a moment on Edward--a gorgeous man who fiercely protects and passionately loves Bella. He sees the beauty and potential within her. He denies his own gratification to wait for what's best for her. He's a sensitive painist, but can destroy evil beings and carry Bella to safety. He's exceedingly wealthy, but cares nothing for riches. His focus is his family and Bella--not his work, buddies, or his car. And he's good at everything...just like your husband. Oh! Yours isn't a brilliant, sensitive, strong, wealthy, capable immortal who perpetually waits for you and desires to bring out the best in you?...Mine, either!"

She loved it...it really made her like her husband again...for a minute there she thought everyone had Edward as a husband...and hers was def more of a Mike character...

She thought, this is great...I'm sure everyone in this church has read this and now we can actually DISCUSS it with other people...and it did help Andee she found at least 4 Twilight fans that day at church....

And then, last week in her church magazine there was a letter to the editor published in the front of the magazine...and by the looks of it I was not going to be a happy camper! The magazine had to write a FORMAL APOLOGY to their readers about the article because of all of the NEGATIVE feedback...to say the least Andee was PISSED...

And it got her thinking....

Is Twilight bad?...really, lets take a look at the main themes of the Twilight series:

• Carlisle was raised by a pastor, which made him rise above the nature of a vampire to become a doctor and save people, instead of EAT people...

Who loves ya Peter?...I mean Carlisle...

• Bella and Edward basically have an unwanted pregnancy but decide (well really it was just Bella there) to keep the baby...

• EDWARD IS A 109 YEAR OLD VIRGIN PEOPLE!!!! There may be kissing, but there is no "getting it on" until they're married. Now Bella did get all slutty at one point, yes, but Edward kept her virtue intact along with her shirt!

Btw Andee's favorite picture...such a hotness monster!

• Look at the phenomena that sourrounds the book series... A BUNCH of people with the same interest a very good witnessing tool...

• And you can't forget this little gem...Stephenie Meyer is a Mormon. We don't know that much about Mormons, but we imagine they are kind of like Baptists, but stricter. They do have an entire extra book added to the Bible, after all, and encourage all the unmarried men to go out and do missions. So we could safely say that the author of Twilight is a pretty religious chick. SHE FREAKING TEACHES SUNDAY SCHOOL. (Fun fact: Kiowa Gordon--Embry Call--was in her class! That's how he got to be in New Moon.)

Basically, we've come to the conclusion that Twilight is not bad. I mean, it's not like these books make people crazy or anything, or make them want to write daily blogs about how awesome they are, or make people fall in love with fictional characters, or cause people to shell out hundreds of dollars to meet even the minor characters of the movies, or create hotly contested debates as to which team is the best team, or if two people do or don't date, right?...




Oh, crap....

Nevermind.