Imagine living for thousands of years, when suddenly some random guy in the middle east gets crucified, and now lowercase t's hurt you.
This remimds me of that "jewish vampire" meme
What book is it that tries to scientifically explain vampires? It talks about why vampires don't like crosses and it's because of some irrational fear of symmetrical geometry or something. In other words it has nothing to do with religion, according to that book's mythos. I thought it was a neat alternative take on the genre. Iirc it was a sci-fi book.
Edit: I looked it up, the book I was thinking of is called Blindsight. I believe the reasoning they provide in the book is that due to their unique spatial reasoning, too many right angles give them seizures.
That was from the Castelvania show.
However I Am Legend is probably one of the first books to explain to explain vampires in a scientific rather than a magical way. In that it was psychological and they only hated religious symbols from the faith they had in life, and I believe that only applies to "undead" vampires and not living ones.
I Am Legend is a fantastic book, but not what I was thinking about. I looked it up and it was actually Blindsight I was thinking of. Regardless, I always recommend people read I Am Legend, it's a lot different than the movie (which I also enjoyed).
Doctor who has an episode about vampires that basically boils to they're aliens. https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Saturnyn
In some books, I'm thinking of Dresden Files, I think it has less to do with the faith of the vampire and more to do with the faith of the person using the symbol. With Dresden, he uses a silver pentacle that his mother gave him and it has the same effect.
This video gives a biological explanation to vampires that explains their aversion to right angles as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJLA8iNUV-0
I don't know which book you're thinking of but this is touched on in the Castlevania show: https://youtu.be/ozID5sgofno?si=WmKK_FCgOcc08E4P
In a lot of vampire fiction, it's the faith of the cross-holder that matters. I'd like to see a movie where a vampire is turned by a person holding up a teapot.
Or a bowl of spaghetti.
I read about a Call of Cthulhu game where the Vampire Hunter was a banker that used a golden credit card, and screamed "The power of debt compels you! The power of debt compels you!"
Fine. Shows vampire the sacred icon of The Great and Powerful Atheismo
Invoking Atheismo only works because xe smites everything around the person invoking xem
Atheismo is, in fact, a tesla coil
I don't know about smiting, but Atheismo also will help at least one person in the future, a Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, find an anti-backwards crystal. Or at least, Atheismo is credited with the discovery. They probably smote some other beings
Richard Dawkins?
I have a joke but I'm not sure if I should even show it.
Then why should we care that you had one?
