House of Night - Christianity Critique

Yeah, my addiction to P.C. Cast is seemingly never-ending.

I got 50 pages into Marked before the evil library system (which happens to employ me) had to take it back for all 5000000000 other people waiting to read Ms. and Miss Cast's vampyre series which already makes Twilight look like a sexist, pedantic, misogynist joke.

Well now it's back in my grubby little hands, and I've read over 100 pages in the last two days alone.

...yeah, it's addicting.

Especially considering that the Casts set out to turn the vampire mythos on its head...and NOT by turning vamps into sparkling little fairies who happen to abuse their women.
If anything, Twilight only took the worst plot holes in the vampire myth...and turned the myth into one gigantic plot hole.

House of Night, on the other hand, removes the traditional Dracula-based patriarchy of vamp society, and installs a goddess--Nyx, for those who know world mythology, the goddess of night-- as vamp society's head, turning a fire-in-the-testicles based myth system into a matriarchal society.

But that's just the tip of the iceberg (cue My Heart Will Go On).

However, one of the most interesting features of the Casts' vampyre (damn that's a cool spelling!) world has nothing to do with the vamps themselves. The fictional People of Faith, a protestant denomination which, even as its members eat up vampyre art, music, and other creative products, denounce the vamps and anyone else who doesn't follow their exact belief system as hell-bound, seem to represent popular criticism of Christianity.
Granted, "people of faith" is about as generic as you can get when it comes to naming a fictional religious group, but many of the sentiments expressed by its members (such as Zoey's --le protagonist-- stepfather) seem to radiate ideals of the hardcore conservative 'christians' who get on TV all the time to rant about the decay of America.

Stuff like:
"Scientists are not God. They are not all-knowing."
...so therefore, their observations and conclusions matter NOT compared to the neat little doctrines we've laid out.

I'm actually hoping for The 700 Club to get wind of this, and issue a Harry Potter-esque formal condemnation of House of Night...just to boost sales through the roof and maybe buy the Casts a new house or two.

This actually relates to my reading of The Things They Carried, specifically the story of Tim O'Brien's drafting, "On Rainy River."
Many of the emotions expressed within the story also condemn the conservative side of the political spectrum, such as love-it-or-leave-it platitudes, blind acquiescence of whatever the government tells you, and adherence to religious dogma beyond all reason, logic, or personal experience.

I've been told that during the course of the House of Night series, Zoey and her friends are aided by Catholic nuns against a supernatural foe, so I look forward to differences in the depictions of the People of Faith and the Catholic Church.
If the Catholic Church is depicted as more open-minded and compassionate than the People of Faith, expect sales of the House of Night books to skyrocket.

Religious intolerance hardcore helped Harry Potter, so get on the ball to freak out your conservative parents.
Start reading House of Night book 1, Marked, today!