[johnny]

Honestly, the sparkling vampires were the least of my problems with those books. I don't know why everyone is so up in arms over them.

They actually make sense, in spite of Stephanie Meyer's stupidity with describing them. The vampires are supposed to be the most beautiful things on the earth in order to lure in prey - ugly people who are made vampires are suddenly beautiful. The sparkling is supposed to sort of enhance that. Granted, Stephanie Meyer should have stuck with this explanation instead of posting on her website that "vampires are hard as diamonds, so their skin is actually diamonds!". She's so much better if she doesn't try to science up her bullshit. She's still not good, but sooo much better.

Anyways, I think people forget that even Dracula didn't burst into flames in sunlight. The fire-in-sunlight was a fabrication in the same way that Twilight's sparkles are, the only difference being that it was based in religion instead of a silly authors "Ooooh, it's so purty derp derpp" imagination. Sunlight was supposed to be "the light of God". Vampires are creatures bound for hell. Hell Creatures + Light Of God = Burny burny.

Since Twilight's vampires had nothing about them that was Christianity or religiously linked, it'd be silly that they burst into flames like the religiously-linked vampires.