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The most unlikely fundy books endorsement


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I've been thinking about if this post has a place here, but I think so.

I got out of fundyism, but still have friends who are deep in it, probably hoping to get my family to go back. A few days ago on Facebook, I saw the most unlikely book series endorsement. it was Twilight. Bella hangs out with boys by herself and sneaks her boyfriend into her bedroom and is a mean little twit to her dad.

But the defenses for this were:

-no sex until marriage because it can hurt you

-Edward is the ideal man because he wouldn't go for sex, and all the things he did were okay because she should have obeyed him instead of ignoring what he told her to do, like when he broke her truck so she wouldn't see another friend, and he was right to have her kidnapped when she refused to do stuff he said

-Bella took care of her dad from cooking his meals to gathering his laundry to wash it

-Bella was suitably weak and needed to be taken care of, like this is a sign of her femininity

-her only hobby was reading, especially Jane Austen books

-she shunned college, even when Edward tried very hard to get her to go, even for a year, but she didn't see any point in an education

-she's willing to dedicate her life completely to Edward and is willing to die to prove it

-her selflessness gave her protection against harm, like when a vampire with the power to cause intensive pain by thinking about it tried

-when they got married, which Bella didn't even want because she was only 18 when he tried talking her into it, she went from not walking it in the morning of her wedding to being so happy after it, which fundies think happens

-when she got pregnant, she went from not wanting kids, to feeling a surge of love stronger than anything she'd ever felt

-when the pregnancy could kill her, she was willing to die to save the baby, and almost did, but everything ended well like it will in real life if you're pro-life enough (no one said anything about how Edward was the one who tried arranging an abortion without her consent)

-Jacob sexually assaulting her is her punishment for seeing a boy alone, even though it's the boy her dad approved of

-all the women are submissive except for one rebel who was committed to an insane asylum before she became a vampire, which means only the insane aren't submissive

Some of these things are what I hate about the books, and some are just sick. Sexual assault as a punishment she deserved! A wedding and a pregnancy making life perfect. Education is bad. I'm scared for the teenagers who are told these books are the perfect love story. Churches endorse these books. I just didn't expect some fundies to do it too.

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Your friends may have endorsed it, but I really can't see fundies in general letting or encouraging their teenagers to read Twilight. Let's face it, if "Harry Potter" is evil because of the witchcraft, this one, with it's supernatural theme and also the parts you mentioned, won't pass the bar for most of them.

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The fundies endorsing Twilight really surprises me. In a way it reminds me of this rant.

heartless-bitches.com/rants/twilightreview.shtml

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It surprised me too because those books have Bella as the perfect fundy most of the time, but there's a lot that's not respectful of parents, there's sneaking boys inside, there's kissing. The one who started this is from a family who banned Little House because Laura didn't want the part in her wedding vows about obeying.

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