[DouglasKC]

Zombies and vampires have long been popular monsters, but for some years now we’ve just been deluged with them in pop culture. I wonder if there’s a particular reason for the heightened fascination.

I have a theory that's semi-serious. I think it has to do with conditioning people to believe that a resurrection of the dead is somehow evil. This is in contrast to the biblical teaching that there will be a resurrection of all the dead one day. In addition there was the resurrection of Jesus Christ there will be a resurrection from the dead of two witnesses in the end times.

[eater-of-toast]

I have a theory that's semi-serious. I think [the pop culture boom of zombies and vampires] has to do with conditioning people to believe that a resurrection of the dead is somehow evil. This is in contrast to the biblical teaching that there will be a resurrection of all the dead one day. In addition there was the resurrection of Jesus Christ there will be a resurrection from the dead of two witnesses in the end times.

That's an interesting theory, one that I'd never thought of, and I think it holds water. Certainly a lot of the prominent vampire and supernatural monster authors from H. P. Lovecraft to Stephen King have had a hearty contempt for traditional Christianity. Besides that, commonly religious beliefs such as the idea of an afterlife can bleed out into the irreligious culture and take different forms. Even some avid atheists, notably Vladimir Nabokov, have believed in the immortality of the soul. He even appears to have entertained the ida of humans reincarnating as animals.