Vampiric deities

[Viktor]

Though I'm not sure about the opposite to Christianity. Mainly because there is not single Christianity. And even when it was forming, it was syncretism and had many branches.

I intentionally said "Christianity" rather than naming specific Christian church or denomination as that would make no sense.
Some edge case denominations such as Yehovah witnesses don't really count since they're way off the course.

But this gives me that thought, that Christianity has specific beginning and end, That would make Vampirism being it's opposite completely timeless and eternal.

Yeah, maybe vampires predate it, when they dominated, in present (last 2-3K years and for the next e.g. few centuries) they're rare or hiding, and in the future they may get out of their coffins again or re-multiply, in that sense eternal has some meaning.

 

[Morell]

I intentionally said "Christianity" rather than naming specific Christian church or denomination as that would make no sense.
Some edge case denominations such as Yehovah witnesses don't really count since they're way off the course.

Fair. I definitely agree with JW being way away from what is usually understood today as Christianity. Now thinking about it, what do you think of Vampires and Gnosticism Christanity?

 

[Viktor]

what do you think of Vampires and Gnosticism Christanity?

Nice thinking! IMO Gnosticism is very close to anti-christianity, I could agree if somebody says Gnosticism is Vampirism, probably not in full but in good part since Gnosticism reveals parts that reduce Christianity to a human rather than divine invention.

We could speculate so much about this, what we know for sure is that Gnosticism exists for as long as Christianity does, so this has the potential to unlock the origins of Vamprism.

 

[Morell]

Nice thinking! IMO Gnosticism is very close to anti-christianity, I could agree if somebody says Gnosticism is Vampirism, probably not in full but in good part since Gnosticism reveals parts that reduce Christianity to a human rather than divine invention.

We could speculate so much about this, what we know for sure is that Gnosticism exists for as long as Christianity does, so this has the potential to unlock the origins of Vamprism.

What a fascinating idea. This potential might really be there. I'll have to refresh my knowledge of Gnosticism to think about it more, though...

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Brain-hurt...

Probably beyond my capability to put it all together right now, but I definitely say that it is possible. I took a fast YT refresh of Gnosticism and I see that there is a lot to it that seems similar to Vampirism. Though Vampirism is not single path just like Christianity. It varies a lot. I can tell even from my tiny library of Vampiric books, that it is understood and followed in many ways, some more, some less reasonable...