[Godzilla]

The author of “Twilight” is also a mormon and that it has mormon-based themes entwined into the storyline.

http://www.sj-r.com/features/x466663776/-Twilight-author-s-Mormon-faith-a-big-influence-in-books-film

Any surprise here?

[Colofornian]

The author of “Twilight” is also a mormon and that it has mormon-based themes entwined into the storyline. http://www.sj-r.com/features/x466663776/-Twilight-author-s-Mormon-faith-a-big-influence-in-books-film Any surprise here?

Nope.

Steve Rabey is the author of the article you linked to...Angela Aleiss pointed out the same Mormon undertow of "Twilight" due to its Mormon author: Found here: Mormon imagery runs deep in ‘Twilight’

[humblegunner]

Mormon Vampires with mystical underwear?

Actually that’s a pretty good concept for a cartoon.

Beats the hell out of Yu-Gi-Oh!.

[Colofornian]

Here are the Mormon themes Aleiss id'd in her piece: Source citations Mormon imagery runs deep in ‘Twilight’

#1

Per Aleiss in her article: A crucial Mormon belief is that humans can become divine. In the “Twilight” series, the Cullen family of vampires once was human but now lives without death in a resurrected condition. Meyer describes the Cullens, particularly Edward, as “godlike” and “inhumanly beautiful.”

So. Mormons-who-become-gods are compared by this author to vampire creatures. Interesting parallel.

And who might be the "godlike," "inhumanly beautiful" Head Vampire might be?

Why, just go to the Bible, where passages from Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 seem to describe Lucifer as he was making the transition from angel to head devil:

'Godlike': I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High." (Isaiah 14:14)

'Inhumanly beautiful':
11 The word of the LORD came to me:
12 "Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre and say to him: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
" 'You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
13 You were in Eden, the garden of God;
every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz and emerald, chrysolite, onyx and jasper, sapphire, turquoise and beryl. Your settings and mountings were made of gold;
on the day you were created they were prepared.
14 You were anointed as a guardian cherub,
for so I ordained you.
You were on the holy mount of God;
you walked among the fiery stones.
15 You were blameless in your ways
from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you.
16 Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God, and I expelled you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.
17 Your heart became proud on account of your beauty,
and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor.
So I threw you to the earth;
I made a spectacle of you before kings.
(Ezekiel 28:11-17)

[Colofornian]

#2 quote from Aleiss' article (same source): • A unique LDS teaching is that marriages are “sealed” for eternity; spouses are referred to as eternal companions. Bella describes her relationship with Edward as “forever.”

Yup. Jesus said people become like angels in eternity – minus marriage partners. Mormonism’s Joseph Smith always trumped Jesus, though.

He and his followers now claim that “families are forever” – including a woman who may marry three men over her lifetime. If she was “sealed” to each man “for eternity” in a Mormon temple marriage, then guess who has three husbands and sleeps with said husbands over the course of “eternity” per Mormonism?

[Colofornian]

#3 Mormon theme id'd in "Vampire" from Aleiss' article (same source): Bella describes her vampire boyfriend, Edward, as an angel whom she cannot imagine “any more glorious.” Edward’s skin sparkles in the sunlight, and he visits Bella’s bedroom at night. But Mormon angels don’t have wings; in the “Twilight” film, Edward sits in the science lab, the outstretched wings of a stuffed white owl just over his shoulders.

Mormons are big on angels. It’s not a cross that adorns their temples, but an angel – Moroni – a dead man – a “ghost” who Joseph Smith said appeared to him to show him golden plates.

Imagine that. Resting your entire life and eternity on a 14 yo boy who said a ghost appeared to him.

[Elsie]

The concept for the “Twilight Saga” series of books came in a vision, says Meyer...

No kidding?

Wooda thunk!