Crossing Beliefs

Coincidentally, as I was reading Eclipse, the third book in the acclaimed Twilight series, last night I came across a passage about the difference in vampire and human beliefs about the afterlife. Edward, the vampire vantage point, expressed his beliefs that vampires do not go the the human heaven, or hell. Instead, he believes vampires are sent into another realm, like a state of non being, because he believes their soul is already lost in the process of vampire-fication. Bella, partly because she cannot stand the thought of being without him, believes that they must end up in the same place after they die. Vampires are, however, immortal and cannot die unless they are literally torn apart and burned, hence their supposed soullessness. Edward looks down on his own kind so much that he thinks of them as a kind of monster and cannot imagine that he would join the humans in the afterlife, since his kind hunt them in this life. The twilight series adequetly illustrates a profound difference in spiritual beliefs in the afterlife and present life.

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