Twilight, or not to Twilight - that is the question!

I am not a fan of these books. I have serious concerns over the acceptance of them, and I believe, no matter who wrote them and no matter who endorses them, that they do not uphold Godly values and principles. They may be loosely based on moral standards, they may have very "good" themes (i.e. waiting for sex until married) but there are way too many other issues needing to be addressed here.

1.) It's creepy that a 90yr old man/vampire is into a 17yr old girl. On any other level that would be weird and quite frankly - against the law. Because the guy is hot, and a vampire, somehow makes this ok? Not in my book.

2.) The way Bella is so deeply involved and wrapped up in him is unhealthy. She goes against everything she knows, including common sense, and begs him to be her all in all. She becomes completely, totally engulfed by him. To the point that she cannot stand the days he doesn't come to school. She's quite Bi-polar if you ask me. Consumed by a man? IS that REALLY the image we want to give our children?

3.) Define good. Somehow, we've allowed a masterful writer, someone who is talented with words and stories to define "good". I don't care WHAT kind of 'devout' mormon the author is, because the BIBLE says Good is this:

Phil 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

Since when is entertaining the same thing as good?

I say if you want to find your daughters truly Godly, truly moral, Truly good love stories, go back to the Bible. Find Rebeccah and Jacob in the old testament. Find Esther and King Xerxes, rent One night with the King, what about Rachel and Boaz? Or The Nativity story - Joseph and Mary. Lets not forget the Romantic notion of Joseph, not wanting his young fiance to be stoned to death for her being pregnant before the wedding ceremony! THAT is romance and love!

THESE and many others, are love stories condoned by God. How much more romantic can you get than the very stories that God himself ordained, created and then wrote about in the Holy Book?

Why are these stories not good enough? Is God not enough of a literary genious to satisfy our wandering minds and itching eyes? I daresay that if people spent half the amount of time in their word reading what God's love stories have to say to us, as they do the Twilight series, they might remember what God defines as good, instead of what entertainment calls good.