Dracula devised a plan to rid society of the burden of all the country's beggars, sick, old, lame and poor
Funny, when my ex told me that story it wasn't society's downtrodden, but rather the boyars and other wealthy landowners who sold out to the Turks, and I'm far more inclined to trust her version rather than yours seeing as how she was romanian and spent the first 20 years of her life living in Wallachia.
Dracula was a madman.
"Dracula" is a fictional creation of Bram Stoker, Vlad Dracul called Tepes was a slavic voivode who fought to reclaim his throne and return his lands to christendom from the muslim turks. None of the tortures that Dracul inflicted were any different than those that were being inflicted in any of the various crusades, inquisitions, and witch hunts that christianity is so famous for.
I do not want my child associated in any way with such a degenerate reprobate, do you?
No, I don't. That's why I raised my children without the corrupting influence of the church
Tragically, there are an increasing number of teens and young adults into the Gothic movement and its offshoot Vampirism.
Not my scene, but to each his own. What does any of that have to do with the real life Vlad Dracul? Oh yeah... Nothing.
And I must tell you they really drink blood!
Funny coming from someone who reguarly commits symbolic cannibalism and blood drinking, unless you belong to one of those denominations that thinks they engage in actual ritual cannibalism and blood drinking.
I counseled a young man for quite some time that got involved in this. He had been a Bible College student, but was expelled after he was caught drinking his own blood.
And you know this for a fact or because that's what he told you? Not that I have any reason to believe that you aren't just making this all up in the first place.
Another young man told me of how he and his girlfriend were into Vampirism
Uh-huh..... So? I failed to see just when you were empowered to decide how someone else lives his or her life. Here I thought that everyone had free will, but it turns out that Pastor David L Brown is the person who makes our choices for us, or at least he thinks he does.
Part of their ritual included sex and then cutting his arm and drinking the blood
Once again.... So? Neither of them are doing anything that they didn't consent to, and freakish as it may seem to you it's still their right to do so. You don't get to snuff out subcultures, no matter how bizarre they may be, just because it offends your delicate little christian sensebilities.
He said "the blood lust soon overpowered the desire for sex. It is a demonic craving and desire. It grows and feeds."
He said that, or is it more likely that you decided after the fact that was what he meant to say? How how is any of this different that what you people believes happens in communion?
He went on to say, "Id see people in certain situations and wonder what it would be like to taste their blood, the saltiness of their blood."
Sounds likely that you are dealing with a mentally disturbed young man, one who could benefit far more from real psychiatric help rather than self righteous preacher prattiling on about demonic spirits, satanic influences, and fictionalized characters that bear little or no resembelance to the historic figures they are based on. I really don't know which is worse, your hubris in thinking that what's best for people is to be just like you, or the obvious fact that you cannot, or will not, distinguish fiction from reality.