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That is more or less the angle I'm coming at this from. In the story, humanity and religion have labeled vampires as innately evil due to their consumtion of blood, killing of people, undeath, etc. Thus, if they're innately evil, then they must be a form of demon of course. Even many vampires believe this to be true, especially ones who were formally Christians in life. However, the truth of the setting is that they aren't innately anything. Technically, they don't HAVE to kill people, they could limit themselves to only taking small quantities of blood from someone if they so chose. Thus, their evil behaviour is just that, their behaviour. So... with that context, if one of them were to stumble into circumstances which made them want to protect a group of people, if they were with them long enough to even become converted to Christianity. Would they stand a chance of entering Heaven? Apparently the concensus is "No", but that's fine. The story won't follow the character to their possible afterlife anyway, thus it won't really matter.
I agree. I have a character I want to portray as being different from common conceptions of what a vampire is, different even from other vampires in the setting. I want to show the conflicts this will cause him as he obviously can't fit into human society, and his beliefs and practices put him at odds with vampire society as well. My intent is to explore that character, not mock real world religions. The religious aspects are there as context for the story, not the purpose of the story, or part of an underlying religious message. My hope is a religious person would read this and consider the ideas as they relate to that character only, not get enraged by a presumed heretical intent outside the story itself.
Personally, my favorite take on this kind of trope or genre is "Ghost Rider" .............................
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