i spent quite a bit of time in airports these passed few weeks.
airports are interesting places filled wih interesting things, especially if you are not late for your flight or trying to buy food. among the many interesting things found in airports are the bookstores. i love bookstores, never mind I have several books that i have not finished reading and some i have yet to start, I love looking at new books and reading the back covers.
as i looked through the books in several bookstores i noticed many attention-grabbing books, interestingly the ones for teenagers and young adults, in their majority, had to do with the occult. they were usually about witchcraft and vampires (which are very similar to demons to me), but not in the way i am used to seeing such stories, because in these novels the witches, warlocks and vampires were not necessarily all evil, sure many of were, but there were some good ones too. this caught my attention, since we live in a day and age in which nothing is completely bad or good.
as i looked at these tittles it seemed to me that the message in these books is that if you really get to know the devil and his demons you will sympathize with him and learn that he is not all that bad, that there really is some good to him and that he adds some good to our existence.
now i admit that i have not read any of these books, therefore i am only speaking according to what others have told me, and what I have gathered from book reviews, commentaries and interviews with the authors. the popularity of these books is something that surprises me. in brasil a magazine of literature and arts which discusses trends especially among teenagers and young adults, named some of these books as the reason for an increased interest in books. these stories seem to be so powerful and so engaging that even those who usually do not enjoy reading books seem interested all of a sudden.
it seems to me that these books develop a sympathy for the devil, and what seemed to be evil a little while ago is not so bad now, you just have to understand it, to see things from a different perspective.
my fear is that as evil becomes less bad, sin will become less sinful, and little by little we eliminate any need for the cross and Jesus’ atoning sacrifice.
please share with me your thoughts on this matter.
