Comments on: The Vampire, the Church Lady, and the Wardrobe https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/16/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an/ Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:07:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Architeuthis https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/16/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an/#comment-9815 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:07:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/16/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an/#comment-9815 Absolutely, Jesus was a vampire. He commanded his followers to drink his blood, and the Catholics to this day still vouch for transubstantiation (where the wine and bread literally become the blood and flesh of christ).Oh, and he was also technically a zombie as well, and a wrapped up mummy.I think that the only monsters Jesus wasn’t was Frankenstein or a werewolf. 😉

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/16/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an/#comment-9814 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:13:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/16/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an/#comment-9814 Jesus was part Taltos, on his mother’s side. His father, great uncle, great great grandfather and younger brother were one individual, a spirit that was the lovechild of the Queen of the Damned and Ramses the Great (from The Mummy). On the Taltos side, it is more obscure but there may have been an alien. The alien will, of course, be the start of a whole series. The first book in that series will be “Morg, Daemon”

]]> By: Jim Emery https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/16/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an/#comment-9813 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:42:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/16/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an/#comment-9813 Wait, I’m lost. So Jesus was a vampire?

]]> By: JanieBelle https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/16/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an/#comment-9812 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:19:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/16/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an/#comment-9812 wazza,

That said, she’s writing another Lestat bookshe swore she wouldn’t, but she is

I’d also heard that, wazza. Given the circumstances, I await its publication with trepidation.

]]> By: natural cynic https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/16/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an/#comment-9811 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:15:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/16/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an/#comment-9811 ..The second book must go up to his bar mitzvah…, to that part where he is left behind and they have to go back and get him, you know that story, right?”What, did they find another scroll? … I’m thinking, as far as I know, the bible is silent from the Bronx Swap in the manger to his appearance as a self professed carpenter 30 years late The story about Jesus “left behind” occurs in Luke 2. Joseph and Mary left Jerusalem after their Passover pilgrimage with Jesus when he was 12. They noticed Jesus was not with their group and went back to the temple to find Jesus discussing religious matters with the learned men of the temple. This may have been some kind of plot device to establish Jesus’ credibility as a scholar and knowledgeable in the Law even when he was young.p.s. the age of twelve would be the time of preparation for acceptance as an adult, however, the tradition of bar mitzvah was established much later in the Middle Ages.- interpretation from Asimov’s Guide to the Bible

]]> By: alcoolworld https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/16/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an/#comment-9810 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:02:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/16/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an/#comment-9810 Edit……old: mean…/edit…

]]> By: alcoolworld https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/16/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an/#comment-9809 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:59:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/16/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an/#comment-9809 Anne Rice = Meh.I remember finishing “Interview” and thinking, oh, goody, now I get the real vampire -Lestat, who is cynical and way cooler than Louis.What I got was more of the same Louis character (Whiny, needy, sniveling) with Lestat’s name pasted on it… Grumble…Rice, it seemed to me, was incapable of 3D characterizations, and I got sick of how every human character introduced would ALWAYS eventually wind up as a blood-sucker.Vapid story lines, cardboard characters, Whining wusses of vampires; I so long for the vampires of old mean, nasty and strong as hell.So, Anne Rice is now a Vapid Christian? Don’t surprise me none!

]]> By: tincture https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/16/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an/#comment-9808 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:49:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/16/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an/#comment-9808 Blood Canticle seemed kind of weak to me. From what i can remember, the story was ok but Lestat seemed to have turned into some sort of immortal concern troll.

]]> By: wazza https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/16/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an/#comment-9807 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:04:56 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/16/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an/#comment-9807 That said, she’s writing another Lestat bookshe swore she wouldn’t, but she is

]]> By: JanieBelle https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/16/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an/#comment-9806 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:19:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/16/the-vampire-the-church-lady-an/#comment-9806 Anne Rice’s descent into madness broke. my. heart.The literary world is a lesser place for her loss (to whackoism).

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